Previously, Michel was a Lecturer in Police Studies at Teesside University (UK) and a Lecturer in Policing at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales (Australia).
He holds a BA in History from université de Montréal, a BA (Maj in Psychology) from Thompson Rivers University (British Columbia), a MA and PhD in Experimental Psychology from Concordia University, a Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching (GCLTHE) in HE from Charles Sturt University, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching (PGCLTHE) from Teesside University. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Michel is a former military engineer with the Canadian Armed Forces with training in bridge building, minefields, explosives, and many other fields. Michel is a retired police officer from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with over three decades of operational service in various investigative fields such as patrol, major crime, riot squad, close protection of VIPs, federal offences (drug and anti-smuggling enforcement), and organised crime, as well as being a supervisor of mixed teams made up of police investigators and civilian personnel. He has vast operational policing experience in the investigation of a wide spectrum of crimes against property, against the person, and organised crime at the domestic and international level, and has testified in court in approx. 100 criminal trials.
Michel is also a member of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG) and the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology.