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the development of Threat Assessment and Vulnerability Assessment Studies, Operational Security Plans and Emergency Response Plans and Procedures, for the Protection of Vital Infrastructures and Governmental Buildings in Greece and EU.




Currently he has been assigned as Head of Division at the Civil Emergency Planning and Civil Protection division, within the Hellenic Parliament.







Maria (Maki) Haberfeld is a Professor of Police Science, in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel as a teenager. She served in the Israel Defense Forces in a counter-terrorist unit and left the army at the rank of a sergeant. Prior to coming to John Jay she served in the Israel National Police and left the force at the rank of lieutenant. She also worked as a special consultant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in the New York Field Office.


She has conducted research in the areas of public and private law enforcement, police integrity, counter-terrorism and white-collar crime in the United States, Eastern and Western Europe and Israel. In addition to her research, she has also provided leadership and counter-terrorist training to a number of police agencies and military units across the United States and a number of countries around the world. Since 2001 she has been involved in developing, coordinating and teaching in a special educational program at John Jay for the New York City Police Department. She has recently developed an on-line Certificate for Law Enforcement Leadership offered by the John Jay College.



Since 2001 she has been involved in developing, coordinating and teaching in a special training program for the New York City Police Department, where she teaches courses in police ethics, leadership and counter-terrorism. For three years (2005-2008), she is was also an Academic Coordinator of the Law Enforcement Executive Police Institute for the State of New York, where she oversaw delivery of the training modules and taught leadership courses, In 20016 she has developed and currently also coordinates, Law Enforcement Leadership Certificate on-line, offered by the John Jay College.





Her publications include three books on terrorism related issues: A New Understanding of Terrorism (co-editor, 2010), Modern Piracy and Maritime Terrorism (co-editor, 2012), Terrorism Within Comparative International Context (co-author, 2009), Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories (co-authored, 2011), Critical Issues in Police Training (2013), Police Organization and Training: Innovations in Research and Practice (co-edited, 2011) Police Leadership: Organizational and Managerial Decision Making Process (2012), Policing Muslim Communities (co-authored, 2012), Match-Fixing in International Sports (co-edited, 2013), Introduction to Policing: the Pillar of Democracy (co-authored, 2014, 2017) and Measuring Police Integrity across the World (co-edited, 2015).



She is also Series Editor of Springer Briefs in Policing.