Andrew Hurst

Superintendent Andrew Hurst knows the criminal justice system is focused on the response and disruption of domestic and family violence offences and believes a shift is required to focus on the prevention of these crimes.

Working as a police officer in the New South Wales Police Force, with extensive service in Western Region communities such as Dubbo, Wellington, Bourke and Wilcannia, he witnessed rates of reoffending and revictimisation increase and identified a lack of community strategies to change the behaviour of these perpetrators and prevent them from committing future offences.

Andrew is a 2020 Churchill Fellow and travelled to Canada, the United States of America and the United Kingdom to explore interventions that can change the behaviour of intimate partner violence perpetrators and multi-agency models that are used to provide interventions. This research included interventions that are tailored for Indigenous communities in Canada and the United States of America.

Andrew graduated from the University of Cambridge after undertaking research to identify predictors of future high-harm intimate partner violence perpetrators.

Andrew is the former Commander of Central North Police District, and the Commander of the Crime Prevention Command. He is currently the Commander of the Transformation Strategy and Design section of the New South Wales Police Force Transformation Office.

Andrew holds a Master of Business Administration from Charles Sturt University and a Master of Studies from the University of Cambridge. He has completed Executive Education at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.