Welcome to our newest Visiting Professor, Dr Bernhard Frevel, who is currently  Professor for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Applied Science for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia, Associated Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster – and now proud to be a Visiting Professor at the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales.

Bernhard's special fields of interest and research focus lie in local security governance, police organisation, and police education. He led third party funded security research projects on cooperative security politics, prevention of corruption, migration and safety in the city, and commissioned research on prevention of violence in municipal administration, and on Civilian Oversight of Internal Security Forces.

Bernhard has been collaborating closely with the University of South-Wales since 2011, organizing the annual International Summer School with police students from Wales, the Netherlands and Germany, and joint publications with Prof Colin Rogers on crime prevention, plural policing, and police education.