Mirco Mazzi
Mirco Mazzi is a behavioral analyst and law enforcement professional with more than thirty years of operational experience in public safety and security.
Since 1993 he has served as a Judicial Police Officer with the Italian State Police. His work has covered preventive policing, territorial control, border and railway security, emergency operations centers, immigration services, and public order. He currently also teaches future officers at the State Police Training School in Peschiera del Garda. He is a member of the Scientific and Steering Committees of the N.O.C. Behaviour Analysis Team, where he applies the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) and BAM (Behavior Analysis Method) methodologies to the analysis of human behavior in operational settings.
His academic background spans sociology, anthropology, criminology, and intelligence studies. He holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Trento and a Master's degree in Anthropology and Contemporary History from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, earned with top marks. He is currently completing a Master's degree in Legal and Criminological Sciences for Security and Intelligence at the University of Verona. He has also completed specialized training in intelligence, counter-terrorism, and civil-military cooperation, including NATO CIMIC programs.
His research focuses on behavioral analysis as a predictive tool in policing, the escalation of police encounters into violence, and hybrid risk-assessment models designed to correct algorithmic bias in predictive policing. He also writes and speaks on conflict, collective behavior, and the use of artificial intelligence in the criminological sciences.