Kerry Watkins

Kerry Watkins, BA Hons (University of Toronto), MA (University of Toronto), LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School) is a professor at Humber College in Toronto, and a doctoral candidate in law at Osgoode Hall Law School. The  majority of his 30-year law enforcement career was spent as a criminal investigator in specialized units investigating a wide range of matters, including police corruption, corporate fraud, and homicide. From 2012 until he retired in 2017, Kerry was a criminal investigation instructor at the Toronto Police College. In 2017, he was granted the Chief of Police Award of Excellence for his contribution to investigative interviewing education and practice in Canada.

Kerry is also the primary author of the widely used text Interviewing and Investigation (4th edition; Emond, 2022). He has published in books, academic journals, and magazines. In 2022, his work on the vulnerability of Aboriginal suspects when questioned by police was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada (LaFrance, 2022).