ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DR GÉRARD Labuschagne was the head of the SAPS’S specialised Investigative Psychology Section, the only unit mandated to profile offenders, for fourteen and a half years. He is a clinical psychologist, criminologist, homicide and death investigator (trained by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department), a hostage negotiator, a Us-certified threat manager, and an advocate of the High Court. He is a director of L&S Threat Management, an honorary associate professor in the University of the Witwatersrand’s Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, and the founder president of the African Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. He has given training to the Behavioral Analysis Units of the FBI and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and advised foreign lawenforcement agencies on their cases. Labuschagne is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published extensively in professional journals and textbooks. He is the author of the best-selling The Profiler Diaries – From the Case Files of a Police Psychologist.