Here is the latest for May 2025
DMU hosts Sandpit
DMU are hosting an event to explore the future sustainability of police-academic partnerships during times of limited resource and investment on Monday 29th May 2025 – more information here DMU hosts EMPAC to boost research impact – EMPAC home page.
EMPAC’s ongoing work
# Regional scoping for collaboration opportunities (all forces)
# Evaluation of night time economy violence reduction (Nottinghamshire OPCC / VRU)
# National Security Policy and Research CoLab (Government Office for Science / Home Office / HM Prison and Probation Service) Organised Crime within Prisons project
# Reducing Repeat Offending evaluation (Seven Pathways + pilot in Leicestershire)
East Midlands Forensics Network
The East Midlands Forensics Network invite interested parties to help new co-produced research in the following thematic areas:-
- Forensic Genetics and DNA
- Jury Decision Making
- Fingerprints and Marks
- Crime Scene Examination
- Fire and Explosion Investigation
- Questioned Documents
- Biological Fluids and BPA
- Drugs and Toxicology
- Fibres, Glass and other traces
- Footwear Marks; and Firearms and Ballistics
If you want to get involved in this important work contact Dr Jo Dawkins at jo.dawkins@leicester.ac.uk.
New Police Federation Research Group
EMPAC’s Dr John Coxhead has been invited to serve on the newly formed Thiele Institute, hosted at Leatherhead, Surrey, to drive thought leadership research within an ethos of public service NOLAN principles.
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