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Exploring Intelligence Driven Policing

EMPAC’s John Coxhead has been invited to contribute to the international West Coast Security Conference in Vancouver in November, which is  sponsored by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Amongst other things he will draw attention to the demise of the strategic intelligence function within law enforcement, and the fundamental, and…

Stepping up: Collaborative Adaptive Learning (CAL)

Policing is under immense pressure and scrutiny. It’s little wonder that within that pressure there is a noticeable trend towards punitive and authoritarian interventions: in other words systemised blame. Bringing errors to account and punishing them is a natural tendency, but the problem with that blunt instrument is that it…

Using research to improve policing performance

Policing has a quandary. With a limited budget, with never enough resources or enough time to do everything asked of it, it also has to keep everyone happy all the time. It is scrutinised from every direction, via formal performance metrics and the court of public opinion. It is then…

Child abuse experts needed for new Derby research

As part of a new collaboration between two European Union funded projects, PRIORITY and 2PS Project, Professor of Criminological Psychology, Nicholas Blagden, at the University of Derby, is seeking to invite child abuse experts to assist with new research. The aim is to gather a group of child sexual abuse…

Policing 5.0

Professor John Coxhead (who works with EMPAC, as part of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, and the Universities of East London, Loughborough, Manchester Metropolitan and Wales) was invited to speak at the World Police Summit, hosted in Dubai in 2023, and one of the topics presented was research about…

EMPAC research on policing accountability at national conference

EMPAC is presenting key new research on public accountability in policing at the Public Policy Exchange Conference, on the 11th May. Alongside EMPAC will be House of Lords Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Dr Rick Muir of the Police Foundation and Dr Mike Rowe of the University of Liverpool. Following the…

EMPAC research featured at World Police Summit

Professor John Coxhead has been asked to speak at the World Police Summit, at the World Trade Centre, Dubai, in March 2023, on how adaptive learning can help boost entrepreneurial policing. You don’t need to go to Dubai though to hear all about adaptive learning. Here is a whirlwind tour.…

Violence Reduction Evaluation

Associate Professor Matt Hopkins of the University of Leicester is hosting an important conference on Thursday 16th March on serious violence at College Court, Leicester. Since the (then) Home Secretary announced a £100 million Serious Violence Fund to help tackle serious violence in March 2019, a plethora of intervention and evaluation…

University of Derby research on Police Constable Degree Apprenticeships

University of Derby lecturer Tom Andrews, who is Editor of the Journal of the Police History Society, is conducting new research into student experiences of the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) to help ensure the programme is the best it can be.  The Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship is a professional…

Counter terrorism research

EMPAC is working with Professor Steve Case of Loughborough University, who has produced world-leading research on ‘Child First’ approaches around youth justice, now adopted by the UK Government as best practice. The Child First principle has been guided by a longstanding body of research and scholarship by Professor Case and…