Meet the Team

Guy Collyer OBE FSyI - Head of Police Crime Prevention Academy

Guy Collyer has worked at Police Crime Prevention Initiatives (PCPI) since January 2017. Within this non profit organisation, Guy leads the Police Crime Prevention Academy, responsible for delivering qualifications for police, security and other key roles focused on reducing crime in the UK.

Prior to this, Guy spent 30 years in the UK Police Service and 3 years at INTERPOL with a focus on Counter Terrorism issues. As National Coordinator for Biological Security, Guy was the author of a number of publications including ‘Personnel Security Standards for Laboratories’. The aim of this guidance was to combat the insider threat and protect high risk biological materials. Guy went on to work on projects aimed at protecting the critical national infrastructure within the UK.

Amanda Mulholland - Learning & Development Manager

Amanda Mulholland is the Learning and Development Manager for the Police Crime Prevention Academy.  Her practitioner experience is rooted in community safety and partnership working within local councils in England and Northern Ireland over 25 years. 

Her occupational competence in training development and delivery includes five years as a course director at the Home Office Crime Prevention Centre, developing and delivering new community safety qualifications in Northern Ireland and on-going CPD up to her employment in February 2018 by Police Crime Prevention Initiatives.

Mark Stokes - Associate Tutor/Assessor

Mark served for 33 years as a police officer with West Midlands Police. He entered the discipline of crime prevention in 1992, as Force Architectural Liaison Sergeant. Thereafter Mark was appointed Force Architectural Liaison Officer, Industrial Security Officer, Counter-Terrorism Crime Prevention Officer, was seconded in a DOCO role to the Regional Development Agency and then became Force Crime Reduction Manager.  

Following retirement from West Midlands Police in 2011, Mark has been a Consultant with Secured by Design, Visiting Lecturer in Partnership Working at Wolverhampton University, War Crimes Investigator and both a DOCO and supervisor with British Transport Police. Since 2019 he has worked for the Police Crime Prevention Academy as a Learning and Development Co-ordinator, and more recently as an Associate Tutor/Assessor.

Mark has a BSc (Honours) degree in Social Sciences from the Open University and an MA in Public Order from the University of Leicester. He is currently in the final stages of completing a PhD research project at Huddersfield University, investigating the sustainability of SBD and CPTED measures over the very long term (25 years) at seven inner city residential tower blocks.

Mark O’Callaghan - Associate Tutor/Assessor

Mark joined the Police Crime Prevention Academy in June 2018 after serving for over 30 years in the Metropolitan Police service, primarily as a specialist crime prevention and designing out crime practitioner.

He holds an honours degree in Law from Liverpool University alongside qualifications in both training and workplace assessment, where he assesses both practical classroom work and candidates post-course portfolios of evidence.

Dave Fernley - Associate Assessor

David has extensive experience of crime prevention education. As a training officer at the Home Office Crime Prevention College, David trained hundreds of students from the police and local authorities. David is also the author of the distance learning packages, Home Security and Passport to Evaluation. From 2001 to 2005, David was the training team leader at the College.

Pete Connolly MBE - Associate Tutor/Assessor

Pete Connolly MBE served as a Constable in the RUC and PSNI between 1985 and 2015. After undertaking training at the Home Office Crime Reduction College in 1999 (Crime Prevention Officer course) and 2001 (Architectural Liaison Officer course), Pete worked as a CPO and then DOCO in the West Belfast Policing District for over 15 years.

Karen White - IQA/Associate Assessor

Karen retired from the Metropolitan Police Service at the end of 2020, having served as a police officer for over 30 years. During her service she specialised in numerous roles, the last and most rewarding of which was as a Designing Out Crime Officer in North East London

What our delegates are saying

Metropolitan Police Service
“This course will provide our staff with the theory and practical experience to enable them to make a positive impact and reduce violent crime across London”
Northern Ireland Policing Board
“We are delighted that a number of Policing and Community Safety Partnership managers have undertaken this qualification which will be of benefit to their work.”
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Policing and Community Safety Partnership
“It is important that we invest in our staff to enable them to continue to provide an excellent service to our communities.”
Peter McCall, Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria
“This training not only benefits the PCSOs but will benefit the wider community and help victims feel safer in their own homes”
Fermanagh and Omagh Policing and Community Safety Partnership
“We are delighted that three PCSP Officers have received this training enabling them to provide specialist support throughout the district.”
Dyfed-Powys Police
“As a Force we are delighted to have only the second accredited cohort of officers nationally. Dyfed-Powys Police recognise the importance and benefit of crime prevention being pivotal to problem solving”
An Garda Síochána
“For our Crime Prevention Officers, the internationally accredited, Level 4 Certificate in Crime Prevention provided by Police Crime Prevention Initiatives Crime Prevention Academy, has instilled in them a greater confidence in carrying out their role.”
Hertfordshire Constabulary
“Providing front line staff with an enhanced level of crime prevention training and awareness allows our officers to engage with the public in terms of crime prevention, crime reduction and community safety.”
Derry and Strabane Policing and Community Safety Partnership
“Our two Lead Community Safety Wardens who completed the course were delighted with the standard of training they received.”
Metropolitan Police Service
“Using proven crime prevention methodologies, this course builds on their policing experience, enabling the officers to dispense expert advice to reduce crime. The accreditation is key to raising the profile, recognition and credibility of our DOCOs.”
PSNI
“This is first time that officers and staff from the Police Service of Northern Ireland and staff from the Policing and Community Safety Partnerships have taken part in the Level 4 Certificate in Crime Prevention course and they have all found it to be extremely helpful for their roles.”
West Midlands Police
"The training provided by the Crime Prevention Academy means that Design Out Crime Team in West Midlands Police can continue to deliver a consistently high level of service to the communities of the West Midlands."
Cheshire Constabulary
"It’s always essential to continually invest in your employees development. This qualification offers many benefits to further enhance knowledge and additional learning which will help the team provide an even better service to the public"
Sheffield Safer Neighbourhood Services
“What is exceptional about this qualification, in addition to the fantastic skills it provides for the participants and Sheffield District, is that it’s truly a partnership initiative. This course is the first of its kind, with officers from the Police, Sheffield City Council and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue taking part”
Dyfed-Powys Police
“We recognise Crime Prevention is pivotal to demand reduction and we intend to maximise this through the effective use of our specialist staff”
Natural History Museum, London
"Having this qualification really helps to underpin elements of our Natural History Museum security strategy around delivering an exemplary service and protecting our staff, visitors and the collection”
WMP Drugs Liaison Officer
“The crime prevention qualification will assist me greatly in my role as a controlled drug liaison officer, to be able to offer cost effective solutions within community pharmacies, vets and hospitals to ensure that potentially lethal medication does not get into the community and into the wrong hands causing significant harm.”
Zaffa M’bye, Housing Warden, Sheffield Community Safety Team
“I’ve done lot of work for the police over the years but this (the Level 3 crime prevention qualification) will stand out as one of my main achievements - I really have learnt a lot.”
Carol Aston, Designing out Crime Officer, Cambridgeshire Constabulary
“Undertaking the Level 5 Designing out Crime Diploma has made my year! Thank you for all the great communication and look forward to receiving my Certificate”
Natalie Reid, Police Scotland
“I’ve already seen the benefits of undertaking the Level 5 Designing Out Crime qualification via the RPEL pathway and thoroughly recommend the course to anyone with an interest in Designing Out Crime.”
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