Previously heading the Malta Police Forensic Science Laboratories as a senior Police Inspector, Mr Ellul is now part of a dynamic team within the Department of Criminology.
He has served 25 years in the Malta Police, terminating his career as a Senior Police Inspector. Throughout his career he studied abroad at many institutions in particular with the Bundeskriminalampt in Weisbaden, Germany and at the National Training Centre in Durham UK. Following this intensive training, he set up the Scene of Crime Unit within the Forensic Science Laboratory and headed this Department for 13 years. Eventually he was promoted and headed the Forensic Science Laboratory, an office which he held for the final 13 years of his Police career. John is a specialist on crime scene investigations, fingerprints, biometric data, image analysis and security documents analysis, security intelligence and criminal investigations.
Mr Ellul has been tutoring and marking dissertations with the Department of Criminology since 1999 and has been teaching at the Malta Police Academy since 1988 on very specialised and technical police subjects. He has worked for 8 years at the Council of Ministers in working groups related to False and Falsified Documents, Fingerprints and other Biometric data, Dublin Group on the prevention of Drug Trafficking, Police Cooperation and Public Order. Consequently, John has worked hand in hand with FRONTEX and has since served as a Project Sub-Leader on the Advanced Training Tool for the examination of security documents, on the Specialist Course for Document Examiners and on the Joint Degree Study Programme for Border Guarding under the Curricula for Higher Education Project.
Mr Ellul holds a Bachelors Degree in Criminology, a Diploma in Police Studies and a Certificate in Criminology from the University of Malta and an Executive Masters Degree in Business and Administration from Henley Business College.
Currently collaborating with FRONTEX on an updated version of the Advanced training tool for Document Examinations and on the development of an e-learning platform for document examination training.
The Advanced Training tool was published in 2009 and was successfully translated into 23 languages.
