Nick Symonds

Biography

Nick is a former regular police officer who is now a Senior Lecturer in Policing at the University and is the Programme Leader for all undergraduate policing programmes.  
He served with Cumbria Police for 21 years in a variety of operational and training roles.  These include response policing, firearms and VIP protection, Police Support Unit (PSU, or ‘riot unit’) Officer and as a Tutor Constable.  In the training environment his duties involved delivering recruit and PCSO training, Personal Safety Training (PST) and Taser training.
Prior to joining the police, he served in the Army for 14 years.  Again, this was in a variety of roles and locations and included a number of operational tours of duty.

Qualifications and memberships

Nick holds a number of national training, assessment and verification qualifications, in addition to professional police service qualifications. He has a master’s degree in Academic Practice and is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE).  He has previously presented a paper at the European Criminology Society Conference and represented the University at conferences and events held by the professional body for policing (the College of Policing). 

Recent external roles

Police Officer with Cumbria Constabulary for 21 years

14 Years in the Army

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