Executive Lead: Future Policing

Mark Evans has been a member of the Police Executive since 2011. As Executive Lead: Future Policing, Mark is the executive lead for several portfolio responsibilities including the New Zealand Police response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the 15 March terrorist attacks in Christchurch, Police use and deployment of emergent technologies and the Understanding Policing Delivery research work programme.

Before starting in this role, Mark was Deputy Chief Executive: Service Delivery.

Mark is Vice President of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing (ANZSEBP), a member of the Global Advisory Board for Policing Insight, a member of the World Class Policing Awards Judging Panel and a fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management.

In July 2022 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University, Virginia, in recognition of his leadership in embedding evidence-based policing in New Zealand Police.

Mark came to New Zealand in 2007, having previously been the Director of Analytical Services for the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School and in the New Year’s Honours 2006 was awarded an OBE for services to policing.

He is a frequent contributor to international intelligence teaching and training, and is a Visiting Professor at University College London where he teaches on their MSc in countering organised crime and terrorism and their MSc in police leadership.