Professor Emeritus John Grieve CBE, QPM, BA(Hons), MPhil

Professor John Grieve joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1966 at Clapham, South London. He served as a detective throughout South London in every role from undercover officer to policy chair on drug squads. His role also included duties within the Flying Squad, Robbery Squad and Murder Squad as a senior investigator. He was Divisional Commander at Bethnal Green in East London.

Professor Grieve has worked extensively in Europe, America, South East Asia and Australia. In the Metropolitan Police Service he held the posts of  Head of Training at Hendon Police College; the first Director of Intelligence for the Metropolitan Police; Commander of the Anti-terrorist Squad as National Co-ordinator during the 1996-1998 bombing campaigns; and in August 1998 he became the first Director of the Racial and Violent Crime Task Force, a post he held until retiring in May 2002.

He is the Chair of the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety, Emeritus Professor at London Metropolitan University, Senior research fellow at Portsmouth University and Honorary Fellow at Roehampton Institute, Surrey University. He is also the independent chair at the Greater London Authority’s Alcohol and Drugs Alliance. In August 2003 he was appointed as a member of the international Independent Commission for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Professor Grieve also has a number of publications to his credit, including:

‘Developments in UK criminal intelligence’ in Ratcliffe J (ed), 2004, STRATEGIC THINKING IN CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE, (Sydney: Federation Press), pp.25-36

‘The mask of police command’ in Adlam R & Villiers P (eds), 2002, POLICE LEADERSHIP IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 188-195

 ‘Does institutional racism exist in the Metropolitan Police Service?’ (co-authored with J French) in Green D (ed), 2000, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND THE POLICE: FACT OR FICTION?, (London: Institute for the Study of Civil Society).

He is currently working on a collection of essays about intelligent policing, due for publication in 2008:

INTELLIGENT POLICING: CONSILIENCE, CRIME CONTROL AND COMMUNITY SAFETY, (Oxford University Press) edited by John Grieve, Clive Harfield, Allyson MacVean and Sir David Phillips.