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🖥 ICYMI you can watch last week's webinar "Viewpoints on vulnerability as a focus for policing and public services" below. In it, our researchers presented findings from a Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre project exploring the value and implications of vulnerability as a focus for policing and public services. The study’s results reveal strongly-held views about whether police and other services succeed in supporting ‘vulnerable’ people and varied perspectives about what the role of the police and partner agencies should be in this work. The findings shed light on where the deficits and barriers are in addressing vulnerability. https://lnkd.in/eNgzx6JG

These are outcomes public services must avoid through on-going audits and reviews.

“The challenges of 2020 should serve as a catalyst for reevaluation and reform within the realm of public order policing in the United States.” Implementing the community-oriented strategies listed in #PoliceChiefMag’s “Public Order Policing” could foster positive relationships with the public. https://lnkd.in/eNQ8XRs5

The scientific method has become an increasingly important part of organising policing in the UK. But with the police still struggling with budget cuts, can science help create a more efficient system of policing? Dr Matthew Bland, our Associate Professor, will explore this issue at this year’s Alumni Festival on 28th September. It promises to be an illuminating look into how the UK police actually work, and what still needs to be done. Learn more about it, and book a place here: https://lnkd.in/e2fY34_N #criminology #policing #PoliceReform #EvidenceBasedPolicing

Despite widespread recognition of the importance of local policing in England and Wales, there is very little consistency or consensus around its delivery; a new research project by The Police Foundation (UK) will examine variations in local policing approaches, the rationale behind them, their relative strengths and weaknesses, and how different designs can meet future policing challenges, as Research Director Andy Higgins explains. ❝There are no clearly drawn lines of debate about the pros and cons of different organisational structures, and little hard evidence about which local policing models work ‘best’.❞ ❝Each change represents a leadership decision to redesign the way the force conducts its local business. Each shift has its own set of imperatives, intentions and consequences. Notably, about a quarter of them appear to have been reversed within three years.❞ ❝We want to hear directly from police forces about their histories of change and continuity, the rationales and imperatives behind various phases of redesign; about what has been learned, and what is coming next.❞ https://lnkd.in/dsFNNe35 #lawenforcement #policing #police

The philosophy of community-policing (CP) continues to be top-of-mind for many agency leaders and policy makers. Join the conversation by reading the article in Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being originally published in 2022. Does your agency practice CP? Share your 'wins' with us below. #police #lawenforcement #communityconnections

Speaking at a recent Staffordshire University conference, National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) Chair Chief Constable Gavin Stephens QPM explored policing’s “opportunity for a reset”, why forces must avoid “defensiveness” when confronted about cultural problems, and what an “anti-racist police service” really means, as Policing Insight’s James Sweetland reports. ❝Although there are some really big systematic challenges ahead of us in policing – on workforce and the financial resilience of the system – I think there’s a real opportunity for a reset. It will be a reset on a number of fronts.❞ - CC Gavin Stephens, NPCC Chair ❝A real early warning for me – as a chief or a local commander – was when you start to hear the exclusionary language of ‘them and us’ about the people we’re dealing with. That’s a real red flag about how people are feeling.❞ - CC Gavin Stephens, NPCC Chair ❝One of the Angiolini recommendations is about having a commitment to being anti-sexist, misogynistic and so on. I think we extend that. We need to be anti-discriminatory in all of its forms.❞ - CC Gavin Stephens, NPCC Chair ❝In relation to Asian members of the community being searched, in the last quarter, the figures in Luton show that they’d reduced the disproportionality to zero. I’m not aware of anybody achieving that before.❞ - CC Gavin Stephens, NPCC Chair ❝From a community perspective, particularly if you feel over-policed and under-protected, a Taser is seen as a weapon – one with weak accountability, that’s too readily used instead of de-escalation.❞ - CC Gavin Stephens, NPCC Chair [SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE] https://lnkd.in/eYxk-GWS #lawenforcement #policing #police

New research undertaken in Cleveland Police (UK) into police pursuits has highlighted how forces could target their stretched resources more effectively, and potentially improve training on local and rural roads, as well as indicating opportunities for police to work with manufacturers and other partners to make better use of technology in preventing pursuits, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports. ❝We wanted an evidence base around pursuits, and then to consider what this means in the way we train officers to do pursuits, and identify any preventive methods we can utilise.❞ - Supt Darren B.ainbridge, Cleveland Police ❝We looked at overlaps between pursuit managers in the control room and the pursuit officer in the car, and found that there needs to be better crossover in the training between these two groups.❞ - Supt Darren Bainbridge, Cleveland Police ❝In reporting our findings back to the NPCC [National Police Chiefs' Council] we’re looking at the short-term gains we can achieve, and the long-term aspirations. We can only move as fast as technology moves and collaborate with others who want to work with us.❞ - Supt Darren Bainbridge, Cleveland Police [SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE] https://lnkd.in/eJXQuegH #lawenforcement #policing #police #roadspolicing #technology

With many discussions around what policing’s core mission should entail and how it should be achieved, author, lecturer and former Police Scotland superintendent Martin Gallagher PhD argues that a more Platonic philosophical approach to the debate could deliver some benefits in determining the role and remit of the service. ❝My contention is that policing has changed its philosophical outlook, and it is in this that an answer to the consternation that stalks the service lies.❞ ❝My immediacy-focused policing has solvency and commission rates at its heart, with policing agencies being able to provide hard data on their success (or lack thereof). You could walk around a town and ‘see’ if policing was working, in the Peelian manner of an absence of ‘disorder’.❞ ❝There has been a marked withdrawal of senior policing leaders from civic life and society over the last 30 years. Sir Robert Mark, a very successful and influential Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, set agendas in the 1970’s. Today’s chief constables follow agendas.❞ ❝Maybe we need more wisdom and circumspection, and less acquiescence? More debate, but not polarised vitriol? Yes, policing should change through time, but should this be to the detriment of core principles and its ‘Platonic form’?❞ https://lnkd.in/dbtHqGiu #lawenforcement #policing #police