Dr. Peter Collins

Dr. Peter Collins is the Coordinator of the Forensic Psychiatry Unit, Behavioural Sciences and Analysis Services, Investigation and Support Bureau of the Ontario Provincial Police and serves as the Consultant Psychiatrist to the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  Peter is also the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist to the Profiling Unit of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
 
In 1997 Peter was elected a member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship   In 2000 he was appointed a member of the INTERPOL Specialist Group on Crimes against Children. 
 
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 at the University of Toronto.  His clinical appointment is with the Law and Mental Health Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.   He is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Affiliate Professor with the Forensic Sciences Program at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
 
He is a psychiatrist with the Canadian Forces Health Services, at the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, and has served in Southern Afghanistan.
 
Peter is an expert on violent crime and has worked with, and instructed, numerous criminal justice agencies in Canada, the United States, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Micronesia and Australia including the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Interpol and Europol.