Michael is a former police Inspector with 23 years of experience in a variety of roles including public order, football policing, CID, response, and firearms command. He completed an MSc Criminology in 2019 at Plymouth University with a dissertation on the role of football spotters and is currently a funded PhD student at the University of Southampton researching EBP in UK policing. His research interests include public order, football policing, firearms policing, and police culture.