Peter Williams

Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing

Trainer

Peter Williams is a Senior Lecturer within the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies and a programme leader for several of the programmes that are delivered in partnership across the Informa portfolio. He present modules in Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism, Intelligence Studies, Policing and Society and the Dissertation module.Prior to joining LJMU in 2015, he was a Senior Lecturer in Policing with Teesside University and during that time delivered programmes to West Mercia Police, the Royal Military/RAF/RN Police and the Rwandan National Police, in addition to campus-based undergraduate teaching, which included delivery of modules for the criminology subject group.He is an author in the area of policing/criminal justice/terrorism and his latest publications include, ‘Counter-Terrorism: The Front Line’ in Pepper and McGrath (2020) Introduction to Professional Policing: Examining The Evidence Base: published by Routledge and Sheldon and Williams (2022) Understanding Policing and Professional Practice: published by Critical Publishing.

He is a regular contributor to global live media as a subject-matter expert in the areas of policing, terrorism/counterterrorism and intelligence matters.

Prior to working in the higher education sector, he was a police officer with Merseyside Police, retiring in the rank of Inspector. He has experience of working in the fingerprint bureau, uniform operations and as an operational detective, including child protection. Towards the end of his police service, he worked as a researcher in the Strategic Development Department at Force Headquarters.

Between 2001/2019 he was an Associate Lecturer in Criminology for the Open University in Wales and is highly experienced in the delivery of distance-learning programmes.