Here is the latest for December 2025
EMPAC’s ongoing work
# Lincolnshire Police 1000 officer project (ACC Davison)
# Evaluation of night time economy violence reduction (Nottinghamshire OPCC / VRU)
# Op Diversion (Nottinghamshire) Detective Inspector Richard Guy
# 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) (Chief Inspector Jim Heggs)
Public events
EMPAC’s John Coxhead spoke recently at the national conference on Tackling Grooming Gangs, organised by Public Policy Exchange https://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?eventUID=PJ30-PPE.
Wider research
EMPAC’s Dr John Coxhead is involved in several research teams, two of which are gaining national and international attention concerning the topics of ‘Think OCB not OCG’ (which is relevant for advancing the Govt’s mission to ‘smash the gangs’) and Solution Oriented Practice (which is relevant for public services facing cuts). Both these topics are being explored by Government bodies here and abroad since being published by Springer (New York) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-83173-7_2 & Charting a Course from Problem-Oriented Policing to Solution-Oriented Practice | SpringerLink
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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