Paul Connor Cert Ed (FE), PG Cert ODE (Open), LLB

Amongst his many other publications, Paul Connor is the author of the ‘Blackstone’s Crime Manual’, the co-author of the ‘Blackstone’s General Police Duties Manual’ and the Consultant Editor of ‘Evidence and Procedure, Road Policing and General Police Duties’. Paul is a law lecturer and freelance writer for Oxford University Press (Blackstone’s Press).

He has taught law to police officers studying for the Sergeants’ and Inspectors’ examinations and to officers sitting the National Investigator’s Examination since 2002 (over 10,000 Trainee Investigators’ have attended his courses with an overall pass rate of 91%).This examination assistance has been provided to officers from every police force in England and Wales, officers from PSNI (Northern Ireland) and the National Crime Agency.

He obtained his Post-Graduate Certificate of Education in Online and Distance Learning Education as part of his study for a Masters degree in the same subject.

Paul is a nationally recognised and highly successful College of Policing trained multiple-choice question (MCQ) writer having written over 5000 questions for a variety of examinations and publications, Paul is one of only three contributors to the Blackstone’s ‘Q & A Online’ product (an MCQ database designed for officers studying for the Sergeants’ or Inspectors’ examinations).

He is the lead author of Blackstone’s ‘Police Investigators’ Manual’, the author of Blackstone’s ‘Police Investigators’ Workbook’, Blackstone’s ‘Police Investigators’ Q & A’ and Blackstone’s ‘Police Sergeants’ and Inspectors’ Mock Examination Paper’. He is also the co-author of the ‘Blackstone’s Q&A’ series of books, the co-author of the ‘Blackstone’s National Investigators’ Mock Examination’ and the Consultant Editor of the PNLD ‘Police Operational Handbook’.

Julianna Mitchell LLB (Hons)

Julianna is a Barrister with Chambers in Central London. She has three first-class degrees in law including an LLB (Hons) gained at the University of Birmingham where she came top of her year having gained some of the highest marks ever awarded by the Law Faculty in a number of papers.

After leaving Birmingham she studied law at the University of Oxford and went on to obtain a BCL at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (widely considered as the most demanding law taught course in the Common Law world. She took her bar examinations at Lincoln’s Inn and, once again, was top of her year. She was Student of the Year and Sunley Scholar.

She is a contributing author to ‘Halsbury’s Laws’ and has a wide experience of teaching law beginning in 1994/95 when she lectured to undergraduate law students at the University of Oxford. Since 2001, Julianna has taught the law from the Sergeants’ and Inspectors’ syllabus to thousands of police officers from every police force in England and Wales as part of the highly successful Checkmate Training Ltd. crammer courses.

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We have an overall pass rate of 91%.

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We have an overall pass rate of 91%.

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