Peter Collins (psychiatrist)

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Peter Ian Collins (born 1953) is a Canadian forensic psychiatrist. He is a court-recognized authority on violent crime and has worked with criminal justice agencies in Canada and throughout the world, including INTERPOL, the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Australian Federal Police, and Europol. He has testified as an expert witness on homicide, sexual homicide, pedophilia, child pornography, child abduction, stalking, sexual assault, paraphilias, arson and fire-setting, the insanity defense, officer-involved shootings, malingered mental illness, suicide by cop, police crisis negotiations, extremism, operational stress injury, resilience, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Psychiatric consulting

Collins consulted with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's behavioral analysis branch from 1990 to 2008. He was involved in the project that developed the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) with Inspectors Ron MacKay (retired), Keith Davidson (retired) and Greg Johnson.

Collins became an in-house consultant to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in 1995, and is currently the Forensic Psychiatrist with the Criminal Behaviour Analysis Unit of the OPP's Behavioural Sciences and Analysis Section. He also serves as the consultant psychiatrist to "O" Division's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service, the Profiling Unit of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Investigative Psychology Unit of the South African Police, the Intelligence and Organized Crime Section of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, and the Behavioural Sciences Section of the Calgary Police Service. Collins has been a member of the Toronto Police Service Emergency Task Force (ETF) Crisis Negotiation Team since 1992. He is regularly consulted by the Homicide Squad, Sexual Assault Squad, Child Exploitation Section, Covert Operations, and the Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams of the Toronto Police Service.

In 1997, Collins was elected a member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. From 2000 to 2012, Collins was a member of the INTERPOL Specialist Group on Crimes against Children. In 2014 he was made a Senior Adviser to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.

In his capacity as a forensic psychiatrist with the OPP, Collins has been consulted internationally on numerous homicide investigations, including serial murder cases, sexual homicides, and child abductions.[1][2][3] He has also written on suicide by cop.[4] At the request of the Canadian Department of Justice, Collins testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness – Bill C-2: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Protection of Children and Other Vulnerable Persons) and the Canada Evidence Act - Ottawa, Ontario, 2 May 2005. He has also been involved in two joint presentations, on the topic of child pornography, to members of the House of Commons in Ottawa in June 1999 and April 2002. In April 2006, he presented to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Institute of Intergovernmental Research's Counter Terrorism Training Working Group on source development and recruitment.

Collins is on the board of the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and is a consulting editor to the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, published by the American Psychological Association.(ISSN 2169-4842) http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/tam

Military service

Collins is a veteran of two deployments to Southern Afghanistan.[5] He was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contribution to the Canadian Forces in October 2012, and the Canadian Forces Decoration in 2016. He retired from the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserves) as a Lieutenant-Commander.

Academia

Collins took a position at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, now part of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), in 1989. His clinical appointment is with CAMH's Complex Care and Recovery Program. In 2004, he was promoted to associate professor at the University of Toronto in the Division of Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Canada) in psychiatry, and is qualified in the sub-specialty of forensic psychiatry.

References

  1. ↑ Michaud, S. G., & Hazelwood, R. (2001). The evil that men do: FBI profiler Roy Hazlewood's journey into the minds of sexual predators. Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-97060-4
  2. ↑ Clark, D. (2002). Dark paths, cold trails: How a Mountie led the quest to link serial killers to their victims. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978-0-00-200078-9
  3. ↑ McCrary, G. O., & Ramsland, K. (2003). The unknown darkness: Profiling the predators among us. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978-0-06-050957-6
  4. ↑ Mohandie K, Meloy JR, Collins PI (2009). Suicide by cop among officer-involved shooting cases. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2009 Mar;54(2):456-62. Epub 2008 Feb 6.
  5. ↑ Fisher, Matthew (April 3, 2009). Canadian psychiatrist minding hearts and souls - of soldiers. National Post
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