Dr John Rumbold is a Lecturer in Law at NTU (one of the new NPCC -PACEs) and is scoping a study of sexsomnia with a view to devising training and an assessment tool. The aim of his research is to improve the investigation and prosecution of crimes where sexsomnia is raised…
The Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) is holding a one-day conference on Tuesday 24th June at The Yard, De Montfort University, Leicester, with a focus on Innovation, Rapid Assessment, Response, and Legitimacy. The line-up includes: 
Welcome from Professor Katie Normington (Vice-Chancellor, DMU) Keynotes from Professor Paul Taylor (Chief…
De Montfort University is hosting an important event on Monday 19th May, 2025, to bring together police professionals and academic researchers across the East Midlands and beyond to boost research activity and impact. The event will be structured around facilitated by Dave Hill of Jumpthink to encourage co-production of ideas.…
The East Midlands Police Academic Collaboration has published a report about how Leicestershire Police partnership working, led by Chief Inspector Jim Heggs, has saved over £1.9 million by cutting repeat offending. The evaluative work has been carried out by Professor John Coxhead (Loughborough and Staffordshire Universities), Associate Professor Chris Campbell…
Policing is in some ways in a perma-state of crisis over funding, yet the future is looking particularly bleak, given the increasing competitive pressures on the UK’s public service financing. As witnessed after 2010, when funding cuts dramatically changed policing (reducing neighbourhood and roads policing capacity and capabilities), even more…
Enlightenment Policing and crime related research mainly comes originally from (academic discipline-wise) sociological roots. Yet things have shifted over the years, so here we explore a little of that timeline to see what was and where we may be heading next. Crime has always been with us, but if we…
New research at the University of Essex, conducted by Hira Syed (supervised by Dr Denis Tanfa), aims to shed new light on the Effect of Occupational Stress on Decision-Making in UK Police Officers. Serving police professionals are invited to participate in this research by undertaking a confidential survey. UK police…
Policing has become dominated by an unhelpful rigid singularity in how it thinks about its professional practice. It has become obsessed with a particularly nuanced (positivist) interpretation of science, marketed as evidence based policing (Cassells, 2017; Fielding & Holdaway, 2021). Whilst any rationally informed reflexivity to boost police decision making…
The East Midlands Forensic Network (EMFN) is a collection of practitioners, academics, researchers and service providers from across the region (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland). Together, they work in partnership to champion meaningful, sector leading research and knowledge development across various areas of forensic science and practice.…
The need to make streets safer The UK Government has outlined its priority to halve knife crime within 10 years. In England and Wales, there were 50,510 knife or sharp instrument offences in the year ending March 2024, and the UK Home Office Homicide Index data reports that sharp instruments…