Archive August 2024

OCBs not OCGs

Organised crime is big business and most of it is about making profit. The amount of criminal profit being made is eyewatering. That’s not just from financial crime, but all crime. Think about how much money is being made from crime compared to how much money is going into funding…

Leicestershire Police leading the way in reducing offending

EMPAC is pleased to be supporting a new Offender Management Pilot, termed ‘7 Pathways Plus’, led by Chief Inspector James Heggs of Leicestershire Police, which offers much promise in reducing long term offending. The work builds on existing approaches, specifically seeking to widen the skills set and capabilities at a…

Solution Oriented: the future of policing

A fiscal crisis threatens the policing model There is general agreement on the need to revitalise local, or neighbourhood, policing. Given budgetary pressures the challenge is how to do that. A new community model of policing is emerging that could grow without extensive public funding. We have an opportunity to…

Improving Trust and Confidence in Policing

It is often suggested that the British policing model is one of public ‘consent,’ which is traceable to what became known as the Peelian Principles of 1829, developed by Commissioners Rowan and Mayne (Lentz & Chaires, 2007). Over the years, policing by public consent as a model has been tested…