Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals

Sex Crimes – Paedophilia, Child Molestation and Cross-Associated Sexual Deviances

Date: May 4, 2018

Time: 9am-4pm (registration will open at 8:30am)

Location: Best Western Plus Winnipeg Airport (For Room Reservation: 204-775-9889)

Costs: Early sign-up rate (until April 13th, 2018): $50 for CATAP members; $150 for non-members

Late sign-up (after April 13th, 2018): $75 for CATAP members; $175 for non-members

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Training Description:

An exploration of the psychology of the paedophile and the types of associated paraphilic activities they can be involved with. Also discussed will be the role of child pornography; grooming behaviour and indicative material collections. [No child abuse imagery will be shown during the lecture].

Facilitator: Peter Collins, CD, MD, MCA, FRCPC

Peter Collins has been the operational forensic psychiatrist with the Criminal Behaviour Analysis Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police, since 1995 and a member of the crisis/hostage negotiation team, of the Toronto Police Service Emergency Task Force, since 1992.

In addition, Peter consults to 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, and the Behavioural Sciences Section of the Calgary Police Service.

Peter obtained his Masters in Applied Criminology from the University of Ottawa, his Medical Degree from McMaster University and completed his postgraduate medical training in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His clinical appointment is with the Complex Illness and Recovery Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and he is an Associate Professor, in the Division of Forensic Psychiatry, at the University of Toronto. As well, Peter is a co-investigator with the Health Adaptation Research on Trauma (HART) Lab and an advisor to the International Performance Resilience and Efficiency Program for police tactical teams at the University of Toronto (Mississauga). Peter is on the board of the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and a consulting editor with the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, published by the American Psychological Association.

Peter retired from the Canadian Armed Forces (Reserves), at the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, and served on 2 deployments in Southern Afghanistan. In October 2012 he was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his contribution to the Canadian Forces.

In 1997 Peter was elected a member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. In 2017 he was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Critical Incident Association. Peter is an authority on violent crime and has worked with, and instructed, numerous criminal justice agencies across North America, and internationally, including the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Interpol, and Europol.