Department of Police Practice

Dr P Machethe

College of Law
School of Criminal Justice
Department: Police Practice
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 433 9447
E-mail: emachep@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Policing (TUT)
  • MTech: Policing (TUT) cum laude
  • BTech: Policing (TUT)
  • National Diploma: Policing (TUT)

Currently teaching

  • FOR1501
  • OVM3701
  • Supervision of Masters students

Fields of academic interests

  • Criminal and Forensic Investigations 

Field of Specialisation

  • Transnational crimes
  • Illicit drugs

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Member of SAAPAM-South African Association of Public Administration and Management
  • Member of CRIMSA- Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa
  • Member of The Social Science Research Society

Other

Petrus was a member of South African Police Service under Research and Curriculum Development, where he received an award for best intern employee of SAPS Human Resource Development in 2015. After the end of the internship programme, he worked on contract as a Forensic Investigator at SizweNtsalubaGobodo under Forensic Department from 2016-2017. In 2018 he was appointed as a Lecturer at Tshwane University of Technology under the nGap programme. Then in 2019, he joined Unisa as permanent Lecturer.