Advisory Board
The IPS has an Advisory Board drawn from former key senior positions within the National and International Criminal Justice System, Law Enforcement and Security, including the FBI, CEPOL and The College of Policing (UK).
The Advisory Board consists of:
- The Honorable Former Director of the FBI Mr Louie Free – Chairman
- The Former Executive Director of CEPOL, the EU Agency for Training of Law Enforcement, Dr Detlef Schröder
- The Former Executive Director of the College of Policing, Mr Mike Cunningham
- The Former Chief Constable of Liverpool Police Service and current Professor at Liverpool John Moores University, Sir Jon Murphy
- Professor Dimitris Drikakis, PhD, FRAeS, Vice President of Global Partnerships, Executive Director of Research and Innovation, President of the Defence and Security Research Institute and Professor at the Sciences & Engineering and Medical School (joint appointment), of the University of Nicosia
Mr. Louie Freeh (Chair of the IPCNS Advisory Board)
Former Director of the FBI
Founder and Chairman of Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC
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Mr. Louie Freeh
Mr. Louie Freeh
Former Director of the FBI
Founder and Chairman of Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC
Louie Freeh is founder and Chairman of the consulting firm Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC. Mr. Freeh also serves as Senior Managing Partner of the affiliated law firm of Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP.
Freeh was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University in 1971. He received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Rutgers School of Law in 1974 and his Master of Laws (LLM) in criminal law from New York University School of Law in 1984. Freeh joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a Special Agent in 1975, working assignments in the New York field office and later transferring to Headquarters in Washington D.C.
In 1981, he joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant United States Attorney. Subsequently, he held positions there as Chief of the Organized Crime Unit, Deputy United States Attorney, and Associate United States Attorney.
During this time, Freeh was the lead prosecutor in the “Pizza Connection” case, the largest and most complex investigation ever undertaken at the time by the United States Government. The case involved an extensive drug trafficking operation in the United States by Sicilian organized crime members who used pizza parlors as fronts. Following the investigation, Freeh served as the federal government’s principal courtroom attorney in the 14-month trial and won the conviction of 16 of 17 co-defendants. In 1990, he was appointed a Special Prosecutor by the Attorney General to oversee the investigation into the mail-bomb murders of Federal Judge Robert Vance of Birmingham, Alabama, and civil rights leader Robert Robinson of Savannah, Georgia. This case became known as the VANPAC case. After extensive investigation, a suspect was apprehended, prosecuted, and convicted.
In July 1991, former President George Bush appointed Freeh as the United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. While serving in this position he was nominated to be the Director of the FBI by President William Clinton on July 20, 1993 where Freeh remained through 2001.
Following his many years of public service, Freeh accepted a position with MBNA America Bank, N.A., as Vice Chairman, General Counsel and Ethics Officer. In 2006, he served as the company’s principal lawyer in connection with the $35 billion acquisition of the company by Bank of America and in 2007 formed Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC.
Freeh has been a member and chairman of Pepper Hamilton LLP, a 550-lawyer firm founded in 1890, and started his law firm, Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP in 2007 with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Wilmington, Delaware, Palm Beach, Florida and Los Angeles, California, specializing in white collar crime defense work, investigations and complex dispute solutions.
Dr. h.c. Detlef Schröder
Former Executive Director of CEPOL
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Dr. h.c. Detlef Schröder
Dr. h.c. Detlef Schröder
Former Executive Director of CEPOL
Dr. h.c. Detlef Schröder was the Executive Director of CEPOL in February 2018 until February 2022. Before, he was Deputy Director of CEPOL since August 2009.
Prior to joining CEPOL, he was a Senior lecturer at the German Police University in Muenster, with over 100 publications in national and international police and science journals and six book publications. Before taking up this position, he had a career within the Police of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia up to senior police management positions, starting 1980.
Dr. h.c. Schröder has a Master’s Degree in Social Science, Law and Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Police Management and a BA in Public Administration.
Mike Cunningham
Former Executive Director of the College of Policing
Former HM Inspector of Constabulary
Former HM Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services
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Mike Cunningham
Mike Cunningham
Former Executive Director of the College of Policing
Former HM Inspector of Constabulary
Former HM Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services
Mike Cunningham joined Lancashire Constabulary in 1987 and worked in a number of operational roles before becoming a divisional commander in Blackpool in 2002.
He attended the Strategic Command Course in 2005 and was appointed assistant chief constable in Lancashire Constabulary in 2005 and deputy chief constable in 2007. In 2009, Mike was appointed Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police.
In 2013, he was awarded a Queen’s Police Medal in the New Year’s Honours list and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Staffordshire University.
Nationally, he was chair of the ACPO Counter Corruption Advisory Group, a lead for Professional Standards, and lead of the National Policing Workforce Development Business Area.
During his service with Lancashire Constabulary, Mike was known for his commitment to diversity and took on the role of national policing lead for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues.
More recently, Mike was HM Inspector of Constabulary and HM Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services from September 2014 to January 2018.
In January 2018 Mike was appointed CEO of the College of Policing.
Professor Sir Jon Murphy
Liverpool John Moores University Centre for Advanced Police Studies
Former Chief Constable of Liverpool Police Service
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Professor Sir Jon Murphy
Professor Sir Jon Murphy
QPM DL LLB (Hons)
Liverpool John Moores University Centre for Advanced Police Studies
Sir Jon Murphy joined Merseyside Police as a Cadet in January 1975. After early uniform roles in Toxteth and Liverpool city centre he spent three years in the force support group, during which time he was on the front line of the 1981 Toxteth riots. Shortly after the riots he entered the CID as an aide and there followed an almost 20 year unbroken career as a detective rising to the rank of Detective Superintendent (Senior Investigating Officer). He then returned to uniform duties as Force Operations Manager prior to attending the Strategic Command Course.
He left Merseyside Police to join the National Crime Squad as Assistant Chief Constable, Head of Operations in 2001. In this role he was responsible for national and international serious organised crime operations and led, for the UK, in the establishment of the first European Joint Investigation Team (JIT). He returned to Merseyside Police in 2004 as Deputy Chief Constable.
In September 2007 he was asked by the then Home Secretary to lead the Ministerial Task Force – ‘Tackling Gangs Action Programme’ (TGAP).
Following this, in April 2008, he became the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) National Serious & Organised Crime Coordinator where, following a paper completed for the Policing Minister ‘The Level 2 Gap – an alternative narrative’ he led on a programme to deliver on work commissioned by the newly established National Organised Crime Partnership Board.
In February 2010 he was appointed Chief Constable of Merseyside Police.
Sir Jon was a career detective, serving as an investigator in every rank. He is an experienced Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), having led homicide investigations, internal corruption enquiries and covert operations. He has extensive experience of command of firearms operations and critical incidents.
He read Law at Liverpool University and has a postgraduate Criminology Diploma from Cambridge University. In 1995 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and worked in the USA with the FBI and other policing agencies researching covert policing methods.
He has previously led the national portfolios of Surveillance, Telephone Intercept and Serious Organised Crime, for five years he was the Chair of the Crime Operations Business Area of National Police Chiefs Council.
Sir Jon has been commended for outstanding police work on 14 occasions and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the 2007 Birthday Honours. In 2012 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Police Federation National Detective Forum and in 2013 he was voted Mersey Region Public Sector Leader of the Year. In 2014 he received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. He is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for the County of Merseyside.
He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University in November 2014, an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Liverpool in 2016 and a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) the same year.
Sir Jon retired from the Police Service in July 2016 to take up the position of Professor of Advanced Policing Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. He remains an advisor to the UK government on policing matters and has conducted a number of critical reviews including assessing the Security of the Palace of Westminster following the terrorist attack of March 2017 and the effectiveness of the Service Police within the Service Justice System on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.
Professor Dimitris Drikakis
Vice President of Global Partnerships
Executive Director of Research and Innovation
President of the Defence and Security Research Institute
Professor at the Sciences & Engineering and Medical School, University of Nicosia
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Professor Dimitris Drikakis
Professor Dimitris Drikakis
PhD, FRAeS
Defence and Security Research Institute
University of Nicosia
Professor Dimitris Drikakis is the Vice President for Global Partnerships and Executive Director, Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and the President of the Defence and Security Research Institute. He has a joint professor’s appointment in the School of Sciences and Engineering, and Medical School. Prior to that, he held academic and executive posts as Professor, Executive Dean, and Head of Department at various UK universities over a period of 24 years; he has also held senior academic/research posts in Germany and France. He has obtained his Meng (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD from the National technical University of Athens (Greece). His research is multidisciplinary and covers topics of engineering science and emerging technologies, including fluid mechanics, acoustics, materials, computational science and nanotechnologies with applications to aerospace, defence, energy and biomedical sector. He has received the William Penney Fellowship Award by the UK’s Atomic Establishment in recognition of his contributions to multicomponent flows; and the Innovator of the Year Award (2014) by the UK’s Innovation Institute for a new generation carbon capture nanotechnology device. He has co-authored two books and has published 417 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has graduated 45 PhD students who now hold positions in academia and industries around the world. He has also been an Assoc. Editor of Computers and Fluids; Journal of Fluids Engineering; The Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience; (advisory board) Physics of Fluids; as well as serves on editorial boards in several journals in the fields of Engineering (Aerospace, Biomedical, Energy, Defence), Computational Science, Applied Physics, and Nanotechnology. He has also served on the Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Board of Directors of the European Aeronautics Science Network; European Research Council (Engineering – Deputy Chair); European Commission (evaluator); UK’s Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), as a Chair of the academic panel.