Ian McKenzie is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist in the United Kingdom. He is a former senior police officer of the Metropolitan Police in London and following retirement from that work in 1985, worked for a period as the Chief Psychologist to the Fort Worth, Texas Police Department. On return to the UK, he joined the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth, one of the UK's principal deliverers of education programs to criminal justice professionals. Many of the institute's programs utilize distance-learning methodology allowing students in other countries, such as South Africa, Canada and Hong Kong, to undetake education through the Ph.D. level.

Mr. McKenzie has published widely on the interface between psychology and the criminal justice system. Much of his written work has been comparative in nature. His research interests include police interviewing and interrogation ("Forensic Investigative Interviewing" in Jayber Gubrium and James Holstein, The Handbook of Interview Research (2001 Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage)) and the practice and process of police identification methods ("Identification Parades: Psychological and Practical Realities" in Anthony Heaton-Armstrong, Eric Shepherd and David Wolchover, Analysing Witness Testimony (1999 London: Blackwell)). Mr. McKenzie is currently conducting research into the psychological effects of undercover policing.

Last updated April 16, 2002