Tom Andreopoulos is a Deputy Chief Federal Prosecutor in the Ontario Regional Office of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.  Tom has a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and was called to the Bar in 1993.  He also holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from McMaster University in Hamilton.

Tom is responsible for the Office’s Anti Organized Crime Unit, Toronto Operations (Superior Court and Ontario Court of Justice teams), and leads the Office’s training and strategic initiatives.

Tom has prosecuted several major and complex wiretap cases involving drug, tax, proceeds of crime, money laundering and criminal organization offences and has argued complex appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal.  Tom also serves as the primary advisory and litigation counsel for the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, a joint forces investigative body with a focus on organized crime in Canada led by the RCMP, as well as the Ontario Criminal Enforcement Bureau led by the Ontario Provincial Police which also focuses on major organized crime enterprises.

Tom is a member of the PPSC’s National Wiretap Experts Committee, National Informers/Agents Experts Committee, and one of the founding and executive members of the PPSC’s Ontario Wiretap Training Forum and the Ontario Electronic Surveillance Committee formed with the RCMP, the OPP and the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario.  Tom is also a member of the PPSC’s National Organized Crime Committee, its Major Case Advisory Committee which oversees all major prosecutions across the country, and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police Organized Crime Committee. Tom has lectured extensively across the country and organized regional training sessions for lawyers and police relating to major case management and electronic disclosure, expert witnesses, wiretap and search issues, organized crime, proceeds of crime and money laundering, forfeiture of offence related property, and confidential informant and agent handling issues.