David Metcalfe
Senior Lecturer
David Metcalfe retired from the Cheshire Constabulary after completing 30 years’ service. Much of his time in the Constabulary was served in Uniform departments including Response, Community, Custody Investigation, Summary and committal case file preparation, Public Order, School Liaison, General and Probationer training, including the development and delivery of training for the initial wave of non-police custody investigation officers. From 2006 David was instrumental in the delivery of the Initial Police Learning and Development Programme (IPLDP) which included the development and management of community engagement learning and the development for the first Cheshire Constabulary LGBT Liaison Officers training programme and the implementation of that programme within operational policing.
David has worked across Cheshire including Warrington, Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Constabulary Headquarters.
He has received a Chief Superintendents Commendation for work as a community officer and a Departmental Commendation for his work developing and designing an extended learning programme supporting recruits within their first two years of operational policing.
David is a departmental Equality and Diversity Lead, Disability Link Tutor, Mental Health First Aider, Dignity and Respect Advisor and a member of the University of Chester Staff LGBT group.
As an experienced police officer (retired) David teaches the development of policing from the formation of the Metropolitan Police in 1829 through to the complexities of modern day policing, discussing the political and social drivers that present the modern police recruit with so many challenges, and includes both the organisational pressures as well as the personal and family values that are frequently challenges in an ever expanding digital society. He also teaches students how modern day policing addresses the demands of the criminal use of the national roads network and how police officer together with many partner agencies try to maintain a focus on reducing serious road collision whilst disrupting and detecting the use of the roads network by serious and organised crime groups, exampled by county lines drug distribution and people trafficking. Through his experience interviewing both witnesses and suspects he also teaches students the foundation of the investigative interviewing models and theories, their application and importance to the investigative process and achieving best evidence to enable appropriate decisions to deliver successful outcomes.
As a professional police officer (retired) , David seeks to contribute to shaping new thinking and practice on questions of the public perception of the modern police service and the impact that has on the professional and personal lives of officers. David focuses on equality and human rights in policing culture, David seeks to develop a research interest in the Ethnocentric influences in decision making in policing and the development of the policing culture.
Other areas David seeks the opportunity to research:
Disability and Equality in policing
Politicalisation of policing