{"id":29394,"date":"2015-02-20T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2015\/02\/21\/irish-inspector\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:12:48","slug":"irish-inspector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/20\/irish-inspector\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspector with Irish National Police to Visit NECC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/02\/John-Bates.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10662\" alt=\"John Bates\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/02\/John-Bates-168x300.jpeg\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>John Bates, an inspector with Ireland\u2019s National Police Services who has spent most of his 30-year career investigating the Irish Republic Army (IRA), will visit Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Lawrence Campus on Monday, March 2 to talk about his work and compare the national police system in his country to the decentralized system in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Sponsored by the college\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/courses-programs\/areas\/criminal-justice\/\">Criminal Justice Program<\/a>, the presentation is free and open to the public and will be held in the El Hefni Building, Room LC301, 414 Common St, Lawrence, beginning at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Bates serves as senior investigating officer in Dublin\u2019s North Inner City with An Garda Siochana, the national police service of Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0 He is responsible for the detective unit and selected uniform units and has previously worked in immigration and intelligence.\u00a0 He has a degree in police leadership from University College, Dublin, and diplomas in Psychology of Criminal Behavior from National College of Ireland and Terrorism Studies from St. Andrew\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Bates works closely with Europol, Interpol, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and his presentation will be appropriate for anyone with an interest in the criminal justice field.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Northern Essex offers an Associate Degree in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/courses-programs\/areas\/criminal-justice\/associate-degree\/\">Criminal Justice<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/courses-programs\/areas\/criminal-justice\/law-enforcement\/\">Certificate in Law Enforcement<\/a>.\u00a0 Graduates can either enter the workforce directly or transfer to a four-year program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For more information, contact Scott Joubert of the NECC Criminal Justice faculty, <a href=\"mailto:sjoubert@necc.mass.edu\">sjoubert@necc.mass.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bates, an inspector with Ireland\u2019s National Police Services who has spent most of his 30-year career investigating the Irish Republic Army (IRA), will visit Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Lawrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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