Dr. Jerry Ratcliffe

Dr. Jerry Ratcliffe is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia. Previously he served for 11 years as a police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London (UK) where he worked on patrol, in an intelligence and information unit, and with the Diplomatic Protection Group. He completed a BSc (Hons) in Geography at the University of Nottingham, but due to an ice-climbing accident left the police and remained in academia. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he has a Ph.D. in spatial and temporal crime analysis techniques (Nottingham). As a lecturer in policing (intelligence) 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 is the creator of HotSpot Detective, an add-on crime mapping and analysis program for MapInfo. He has published over 25 articles and three books: 'Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence' (Federation Press, 2004); 'GIS and Crime Mapping' (Wiley, 2005) and 'Policing Illegal Drug Markets' (Criminal Justice Press, 2005). He publishes and lectures on environmental criminology, intelligence-led policing and crime reduction. In his spare time, he likes to scuba dive, ski, fly light aircraft and drink single malt whisky (not all at the same time).