天美传媒

Senior Lecturer in Policing

I am a retired Police Officer having served with Bedfordshire Police. I was fortunate to have experienced core functions of response, investigative and preventative policing. The last roles I had involved developing intelligence systems within Domestic Abuse and Neighbourhood Policing departments before moving on to a central Intelligence office developing serious crime packages.

Since retiring from Bedfordshire Police I have held a number of positions within education. I worked with young people caught up in the Youth Justice system and taught and supported learning in Secondary Education and Further Education. I have lectured at undergraduate level since 2015 on different degrees and at different Universities.

I lead a team of retired police officers to deliver both a PSRB regulated course and a non-PSRB course. I am responsible for partnership engagement, annual mapping and partner QA compliance activity. Within the university I also have a position of Faculty Employability Lead to assess and develop the mapping and embedding of key employability skills, graduate outcomes and competencies, as well as UN SDG's as part of the Career Powered Education Strategy. Wider roles involved research activity on the work of a VRU and other co-written academic publications.

I am an external examiner for a large university on their DHEP course (detective and community). I sit on panels advising other HEI's on how to develop their own PEQF routes and have been a critical friend for their validation processes, I have helped 3 other HEI's develop their own policing and investigations based degrees. I also sit on a Conduct and Scrutiny panel for a large Police force advising on conduct, regulatory compliance, case management and service recovery.

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Qualifications

• MA Sociology
• BA (Hons) Social Sciences
• Pcep (YJ)
• FHEA
• PgCAPHE
• Tutoring and mentoring Diploma

Teaching Areas

• Independent Research Project
• Major Investigations
• Major and Critical Incidents
• Community to Neighbourhood Policing
• Drugs and Crime

Research Interests

• Police Corruption
• Police Governance
• Community Policing

Degrees written include

• Degree in Professional Policing 2020
• BSc in Policing & Applied Criminal Investigations 2025
• Policing & Investigations Practice (top-up for serving Police Officers) 2025

Projects currently working on include

• MSc Cybercrime and Terrorism
• Emergency Resilience Practitioner apprenticeship for paramedics.

Publications

• Osidipe, T., and South. J., (2021) Policing in England and Wales in Global Perspectives of Policing and Law Enforcement: Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities. Ed. Jospeter Mbuba. Lexington Books. Washington DC.
• Osidipe, T., & South, J., (2022) Policing in Britain, in J.M. Mbuba (ed) Global Perspectives in Policing and Law Enforcement. Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland.
• Evaluation of the Bedfordshire Violence and Exploitation Reduction Unit (2024) Alice Yeo, Safer Young Lives Research Centre, with Dr Nenadi Adamu, Dr Isabelle Brodie, Dr Andrew Malcolm, Dr Sandra Roper, Jonathan South and Dr Roma Thomas

Contact Details

E: jonathan.south@beds.ac.uk