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Timo Kivimäki Erityisasiantuntija, kouluttaja Timo on työskennellyt lähes koko työhistoriansa erilaisissa turvallisuusalan työtehtävissä niin kenttä, työnjohtotehtävissä kuin myös asennus ja opetustehtävissä. Koulutukseltaan Timo on insinööri sekä ammatillinen opettaja ja häneltä löytyy myös turvallisuusvalvojan erikoisammattitutkinto. Timo on toiminut myös vartijoiden sekä järjestyksenvalvojien voimankäytön kouluttajana. Viime vuosien työtehtävät ovat painottuneet turvallisuussuunnitteluun ja opettamiseen. Insinööriopintojen lopputyö johti patenttiin ja työn aiheena oli turvallisuuteen liittyvä mobiili hälytinlaite.
Bram van der Meer Investigative psychologist and criminologist Bram is an investigative psychologist and criminologist who has worked for the Netherlands National Police for 11 years. Before that he worked for 5 years as a clinician in the country’s largest forensic psychiatric facility, where dangerous and mentally ill offenders are admitted. Bram has been involved with numerous violent crime investigations. He still is the expert adviser in many high profile Dutch investigations, but has also been the consultant in cases on the Caribbean islands, in the United States, the United Kingdom and in several other European countries. His main activity is deviant (criminal) behavior analysis, personality assessment and threat assessment. Bram has played a major role in developing and setting up (behavioral) threat management for the Netherlands government and National Police. He has conducted numerous threat assessments for the Netherlands Royal Family, the Prime Minister, national politicians and foreign VIP’s. He advises the Royal Protection Guard, the department of home affairs, and the counter-terrorism center of the department of Justice. Bram teaches threat assessment, criminal profiling and interview techniques at the Police Academy, and is the chief educator of the threat assessment program for investigative psychologists in the Netherlands. Bram is the co-founder of the Netherlands first threat management company, Black Swan Forensics. For both government organizations and corporate business confronted with threats or related problems, his company provides consultation and training. Bram is the current president of the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals.
Jobien Berkouwer Investigative consultant Jobien Berkouwer read Law at the University of Leiden. Before graduating in 1993 she also attended classes at the University of Salzburg, Austria for six months focusing specifically on Legal Logic, Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory. She wrote her thesis for the Prosecutor Office and The Dutch Child Protection Agency on The Effects of alternative sanctions for youths. While writing it she was offered a job by the Child Protection Agency as a legal representative and advisor to the Court, where she worked for almost three years. In 1995, Jobien became a family lawyer in Amsterdam. However, after a year she switched to law enforcement, something she had always wanted to do. She finished the postgraduate Program for Higher Management at The Police Academy in 1999 and attended the course Forensic Psychiatry and Criminal Law at the University of Utrecht. Theory was put into practice by working at the Crime Analysis and Offender Profiling Unit of the National Police in Stockholm, Sweden in the summer of 2000. Jobien has worked as a police superintendent and project manager at The Police Academy of The Netherlands. This national project (LDM), which is available 24/7, supports senior investigating officers of the Dutch police force, and prosecutors and judges, in finding qualified experts to solve serious crime in a quicker and smarter way. Since 2000, Jobien has rapidly climbed the ranks in three different police forces, in cities such as Amsterdam, Almelo and Enschede. She has worked for the vice division, the murder squad, the unit organized crime, and as an assistant district attorney. She has built an extensive network among law enforcement officers, prosecutors, magistrates, and in politics. In 2003, Jobien was asked to become spokesman for a regional and national Crime Watch television program. In recent years Jobien has been consulted by the Board of Police Commissioners on the new guidelines about the role of experts in criminal cases. For years Jobien has served on the Executive Board of the International Homicide Investigators’ Association (IHIA) in The Netherlands. She is currently a member of the Dutch Association of Violent Crime Investigators (DAVCI) and of the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals (AETAP). Jobien is the co-founder of the Dutch threat management company Black Swan Forensics.
Dr. Lorraine Sheridan Advisor Psykologian tohtori Lorraine Sheridan on kriminaalipsykologiaan erikoistunut psykologi, joka teki ensimmäisenä Euroopassa väitöskirjan ahdistelukäyttäytymisestä. Dr. Sheridan on kirjoittanut neljä kirjaa ja yli viisikymmentä artikkelia ahdistelusta ja häiriköintikäyttäytymisestä. Dr. Sheridan työskenteli pitkään Leicesterin yliopistossa Englannissa ja nykyään työskentelee Heriot Wattin yliopistossa Edinburghissa. Lisäksi Sheridan auttaa brittein saarilla poliisia myös profilointitehtävissä. Totti Karpela ja Dr. Lorraine Sheridan ovat työskennelleet yhteisissä projekteissa vuodesta 2003 alkaen. Nyt yhteistyötä vahvistettiin tekemällä työsopimus ahdistelu- ja häiriköintirikosten ehkäisyprojekteissa. Dr. Sheridan tekee osan analyyseista sekä kouluttaa yrityksiä ja organisaatioita ahdistelukäyttäytymisen osalta. Koulutus tapahtuu Englanniksi, mutta on tulkattavissa myös Suomeksi. Dr Lorraine Sheridan is a Chartered Forensic psychologist and an international expert on stalking and harassment. She completed Europe's first PhD on stalking and has so far published four books and more than 50 papers on the subject. Her research has taken an applied, interventionist angle and she frequently trains professionals involved in the investigation of stalking crimes. She is a police accredited offender profiler and she compiles psychological reports related to offenders, highlighting the risks posed by known or unknown suspects. She regularly gives case management advice to the police, security personnel, celebrities and others on stalking, harassment, violence, risk assessment, malicious communications and related topics. After a long stint as an academic at the University of Leicester, England, Lorraine is now a part-time Senior research fellow at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Mr. Totti Karpela and Dr. Sheridan have worked together since 2003 and decided to strenghten the cooperation through official agreemen on cooperation in stalking and harrasment cases.
Dr. Jens Hoffmann Advisor Jens Hoffmann on saksalainen kriminaalipsykologian tutkija ja luennoitsija, joka on erikoistunut häiriköinti- ja ahdistelutapausten tutkimiseen ja konsultointiin. Tphtpri Jens Hoffmann on kirjoittanut Saksan liittovaltion keskusrikospoliisille (German Bureay of Criminal Investigation) epäiltyjen profiloinnista. Hoffmann toimii myös luennoitsijana Centre for Forensic Psychology Darmstadt University-keskuksessa. Hoffmannin firma Team Psychologie & Sicherheit on saksassa tunnettu kriminaalipsykologian konsultointi- ja koulutusyritys. Mielenrauha solmi yhteistyösopimuksen Dr. Hoffmannin ja TPS:n kanssa keväällä 2003. Jens Hoffmann on kirjoittanut useita psykologian alan teoksia ahdistelukäyttäytymisestä ja tapausten hoitamisesta. Totti Karpela ja Jens Hoffmann ovat tehneet yhteistyötä Eurooppalaisilla alan kursseilla vuodesta 2003 alkaen. Hoffmann on yksi AETAP:n (Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals) yhdistyksen perustajajäsenistä.
Jens Hoffmann, Ph.D. Dr. Jens Hoffmann is a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Psychology at the University of Darmstadt which is close to Frankfurt in Germany. His research interests include stalking, workplace violence, targeted violence in schools and in universities, femicide and attacks on public figures. Dr. Hoffmann has written more than 20 professional journal articles and book chapters. On behalf of the German Bureau of Criminal Investigation he has authored a textbook about offender profiling. In total Dr. Hoffmann has authored, co-authored or edited eight books covering topics like stalking, domestic violence, school shootings and intimate partner homicide. He has presented talks and workshops in eight European countries and in the US and has trained police forces in Germany and in Austria in assessing and managing stalking cases. Next to his scientific work, Dr. Hoffmann heads a firm with two former police psychologists called "Team Psychologie & Sicherheit". One of their main focuses is conducting threat management for national and international corporate groups and for public figures. Mr. Totti Karpela and Dr. Hoffmann are working together since 2003 and decided to strengthen the cooperation through an official agreement on cooperation in the fields of workplace violence, threat assessment and stalking.
Werner Tschan, MD Dr. Werner Tschan MD is the current president of AETAP. He is an expert in the prevention of interpersonal violence ranking from workplace violence, stalking, domestic and sexual violence. He serves as a Program Director at Zurich Universty for a postgraduate training course on intervention and prevention of sexual violence. He works as a psychiatrist in private praxis. He has presented worldwide on various conferences such as IALMH (International Association of Law and Mental Health); IATSO (International Association for the treatment of sexual offenders); and APA (American Psychiatric Association). He has done numerous threat assessments and has trained teams in various organisations. He also consulted various organisations in implementing preventive strategies against workplace violence. He dedicated much of his career to the prevention of interpersonal violence and he get involved in many project over the years. He also published papers on various aspects of interpersonal violence. The psychological impact of threats and violent behaviours often exceed the harm caused by physical injuries. In his approach he integrates criminology, psychotraumatology, attachment theory, affective neuroscience and forensic knowledge (offender strategies, psychopathy concept, offense focussed treatment approaches, etc.) into intervention concepts. He provides practical solutions based on a large "frontline" expertise.