Archive November 2023

Mobile Phone Extraction Research at Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is doing groundbreaking research about how to better extract evidence from mobile phones, by developing new efficient and reliable tools, led by Assistant Professor Helena Webb. This work about the digital economy is a top research priority because personal mobile phones are a very valuable repository…

New book showcases EMPAC’s police academic partnership

EMPAC offers specialist additional capability for proactive and strategic development, by working collaboratively with any academic researchers on priority policing challenges of today, with an aim to get tomorrow’s policing more upstream. EMPAC has been chosen to be represented in a new book edited by Professors Steven Tong (Kingston University)…

Leicester mathematics students research crime patterns

University of Leicester Applied Mathematics undergraduate students have been researching hot and cold spots of crime to hunt for patterns about just why crime is lower in some areas than others.  Much criminological research of the past has focused on hot spots (high crime areas), but we know less about…