Here is the latest for October 2024
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.
EMPAC conferences & media
EMPAC’s Professor John Coxhead is presenting at the Public Policy Exchange Conference on 15th October 2024, on the Future of Policing Under a New Labour Government and at a University of Staffordshire conference on policing partnership on 12th December 2024 about UN’s SDG 16, alongside Rutgers University, USA.
East Midland runner up in the National Innovation in Policing competition
Loughborough University engineering student William Butler has designed a new style of lightweight body armour vest and his idea has received national recognition, with him winning second place in the annual Innovation in Policing competition.
William used ANSYS Explicit Dynamics non-linear solver to simulate tests to develop ballistic protection via a ceramic armour plate technology using interlocking hexagonal plates. The new vest protects its wearer by 67% area coverage more than previous models.
The innovation competition winner for 2023 was Dr Martin Wright, working with South Wales Police, on virtual volunteering.
The national event is now open for new entries – well done to William and here’s to a future EM region winner in 2024!
EMPAC’s current commissioned research
Professor John Coxhead (Loughborough University & Staffordshire University) is working on several local, regional, national and international projects currently:
- Exploring collaboration opportunities for EM policing
- Supporting Leicestershire Police on managing serious acquisitive crime nominals, to reduce recidivism
- Supporting Lincolnshire Police on resource allocation and funding formula analysis
- Supporting EM OPCCs
- Supporting solution orientated policing growth in Calgary, Canada and Mumbai, India
His most recent publications are:-
- A new book chapter on ‘Evaluating tactics for public order policing: the case of Orgreave in the Miners’ strike of 1984′, in Critical issues and Global Perspective in Policing (Volume 2) (Eds. Albrecht, J. & den Heyer, G.) (2024) Springer, New York
- Policing Streetcraft (Police Professional Journal, November 2024)
- A new book chapter ‘Rural Appeal: the eye of the beholder’ in Policing Rural Crime (editor Professor Wendell Wallace, University of West Indies) Bristol University Press (2024)
- A new book chapter co-authored with Dr Robert Smith about the policing of criminal activities by gangs using e bikes, (editor Professor Garth den Heyer, Arizona State University)
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