Faculty / Jerry Ratcliffe
Dr Jerry Ratcliffe is Professor with the Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia. In a previous life he was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London (UK) where he served for a number of years on patrol duties, in an intelligence and information unit, and as a member of the Diplomatic Protection Group. Due to a severe winter mountaineering accident, he left the police after 11 years of service. He completed a B.Sc. with honors in Geography and GIS at the University of Nottingham (UK) and has a Ph.D. from the same institution.
As a lecturer in policing (intelligence) with Charles Sturt University based at the New South Wales Police College in Australia, he ran graduate programs in criminal intelligence, and for a number of years coordinated Australia's National Strategic Intelligence Course. Dr Ratcliffe was also a senior research analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology, where he conducted one of the first evaluations of an intelligence-led policing operation. In 2007, Dr Ratcliffe was awarded the Professional Service Award for outstanding contributions to criminal intelligence analysis by the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA).
He has published over 40 research articles and four books: 'Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence' (Federation Press, 2004, edited); 'GIS and Crime Mapping' (Wiley, 2005 with Spencer Chainey) and 'Policing Illegal Drug Markets' (Criminal Justice Press, 2005, with George Rengert and Sanjoy Chakravorty). His most recent book, "Intelligence-Led Policing" (Willan Publishing) is the first book to address this emerging area of police management practice, and is on the Sergeant to Lieutenant's exam reading list for the Philadelphia Police Department.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and publishes and lectures on environmental criminology, crime mapping, intelligence-led policing and crime reduction. Jerry was an officer in the British Army reserves (Royal Engineers); has climbed the three highest mountains in Africa; and with Operation Raleigh both led an expedition down the Selenga river in Siberia and was the first non-Iban tribesman to successfully navigate (with a traditional carved boat) the rapids of the Temburong river in Borneo. He likes to fly light aircraft, ski, scuba dive, and drink single malt whisky, but not all at the same time....