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Mike Dacre

Liverpool,Merseyside

Summary

My vast amount of previous experience in policing football and other large scale public events across Merseyside has allowed me to develop a good knowledge and understanding of the requirements of stewarding football matches at Hill Dickinson, Goodison Park and across the UK and Europe, including crowd safety and event operations.

To further assist in my development and understanding I have asked that be allowed to undertake the Stadium Safety Officers Course through Everton Football Club.

Overview

40
40
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Ope Planning and Investigations Officer

Everton Football Club
Liverpool, Merseyside
2021.11 - Current

Since commencing the role of Operational Planning and Investigations Officer I have been able to develop many new additional skills and attributes that have greatly benefited with the smooth running of the operations team;- These include overseeing all Salesforce complaints from supporters following incidents at the games, All ReportIT email complaints, all Stadium Ops email complaints, all Kick it Out email complaints, all incidents that occur at home fixtures involving fans and Merseyside Police,(this also includes away fixtures).

The sending of all suspension and banning letters to supporters.

All CCTV investigations for both Hill Dickinson and Goodison Park.

All matchday briefing documents and power point briefings for the men's 1st team, the women's 1st team, under 21's and under 18's teams.

All Kick it out education sessions where fans have been refereed by either Merseyside Police or the courts.

I have also developed a new Acceptable Behaviour Contract that supporters are required to sign before returning the Everton if they have been involved in any incidents, suspended or banned.

The completion of the Head Stewards post-event debrief documents following all fixtures involving the men's 1st team.

Matchday radio operator / CCTV operator duties at both Hill Dickinson and Goodison Park.

Since moving to Hill Dickinson, I was the lead for developing and managing the implementation of the new operational deployment dot plans for all stewarding positions across the new stadium, as well as planning and writing the new operational matchday briefing documents for the many new roles.

The management, development and briefings for the deployment of a newly created exit stewards' team which has assisted greatly in the smooth running of matchday operations.

A new stewards matchday briefing PowerPoint which makes the best use of the new technology at Hill Dickinson.

I am currently in the process of re-writing the stewards handbook for the 22026/27 season and the development and implementation of a new online Head Stewards matchday briefing document.

Associate Lecturer in Law

Open University
Liverpool, Merseyside
2022.01 - 2025.07

Lecturer in law for new North Yorkshire police recruits teaching / lecturing on the Police Constable's Degree Apprenticeship. Including the responsibility for creating / developing lecture material / seminars, marking student essays and overall responsibility of the student's development in the policing family, including the tripartite processes.

Lecturer in Law

Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool, Merseyside
2020.07 - 2022.12

Lecturer in law for new Merseyside police recruits teaching / lecturing on the Police Constable's Degree Apprenticeship. Including the responsibility for creating / developing lecture material / seminars, marking student essays and overall responsibility of the student's development in the policing family, including the tripartite processes.

Police Constable

Merseyside Police
Liverpool, Merseyside
1990.10 - 2020.07

I was a serving Police Officer with Merseyside Police for over 30 years, one of my many roles, which started in 2005, was that of a Dedicated Football Officer for both Tranmere Rovers and Everton Football Clubs as well as a football spotter for both Liverpool and Everton.

Prior to retiring as police constable, I performed a variety of other operational and support roles in the large metropolitan force (Response, CID Investigations, Plain clothes drugs team, Tutor Constable, Area Training Officer (ATO), public order and personal safety trainer and A1 assessor.

Residential Social Worker

Barnardo's
Liverpool, Merseyside
1986.04 - 1990.09

Education

Certificate in Education - Teaching of adults

Manchester University
UK
2006.05 - 2006.09

Foundation Degree - Policing

Foundation Degree in Policing
Liverpool
2010.07 - 2011.07

Bachelor of Science - Policing

Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool
2012.07 - 2014.07

A 1 assessor - Adult Learning / development

Merseyside Police
Liverpool
2008.06 - 2009.12

Structured debriefer - Structured debrief of incidents

College of Policing
Merseyside
2015.05 - 2015.05

Skills

Over the last three and half years in my current role at Everton I have been able to develop a good understanding of the requirements of leading the planning and delivery of the stewarding operations at both Hill Dickinson and Goodison Park stadiums for all of the football, rugby and many other events that have taken place This has allowed with the effective deployment and management of the various stewarding teams

My knowledge of the CCTV systems both at Hill Dickison and Goodison Park has allowed me to work closely with both the internal teams and external stakeholders, such as Merseyside Police, Northwest Ambulance, Merseyside Fire and Rescue, and the British Special Forces when dealing with live incident management

Timeline

Associate Lecturer in Law

Open University
2022.01 - 2025.07

Ope Planning and Investigations Officer

Everton Football Club
2021.11 - Current

Lecturer in Law

Liverpool John Moores University
2020.07 - 2022.12

Structured debriefer - Structured debrief of incidents

College of Policing
2015.05 - 2015.05

Bachelor of Science - Policing

Liverpool John Moores University
2012.07 - 2014.07

Foundation Degree - Policing

Foundation Degree in Policing
2010.07 - 2011.07

A 1 assessor - Adult Learning / development

Merseyside Police
2008.06 - 2009.12

Certificate in Education - Teaching of adults

Manchester University
2006.05 - 2006.09

Police Constable

Merseyside Police
1990.10 - 2020.07

Residential Social Worker

Barnardo's
1986.04 - 1990.09
Mike Dacre