Dr Lee Hadlington of De Montfort University has published new open access EMPAC research in Heliyon (Vol. 3, Issue 7, July 2017). The research explored the relationship between risky cybersecurity behaviours, attitudes towards cybersecurity in a business environment, Internet addiction, and impulsivity. 538 participants in part-time or full-time employment in…
Supported by funding through the Home Office (College of Policing) and Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE), EMPAC was able to sponsor a number of institutions, including the University of Derby, via the national Police Knowledge Fund (PKF) to carry out topical enquiries. Professor Kevin Brampton reports in here on some…
Professor Kevin Bampton reports in on work to critically explore the policing of rural crime. One of the reasons for ongoing work in this field – pardon the pun – is the relative lack of significant studies which focus on how we think about rural crime and what we think…
Professor Ken Pease, of University College London and former Home Office Researcher, discusses the contribution of Bayes to contemporary policing. Home Office Research Unit Forty-seven years ago I started work in the Home Office Research Unit and I have spent all the intervening years researching crime and justice, in one…
‘Driving innovation in policing’ is the tag-line of EMPAC. And two of the police forces in EMPAC are leading the way in the adoption and implementation of the ‘Crime Harm Index’ (CHI), developed at the University of Cambridge. Earlier this week EMPAC took police analysts from the East Midlands to…
What is Evidence Based Policing and how can it help me? EMPAC is proud to announce a new event that showcases extensive work done in Leicestershire. Sgt Mark Brennan is a key figure in driving the implementation of evidence based policing and is to be congratulated on assembling a wide…
EMPAC Fellows have had their Christmas welcome at Nottingham Trent University and now the hard work begins! Amy Rutland of Leicestershire Police, who worked with Loughborough University, as EMPAC’s first Fellow, told the new cohort that it was a “great opportunity to have an evidence base and be heard”. Coming from a diversity…
EMPAC took its original inspiration from SIPR (Scottish Institute of Policing Research) and was created in an embryonic form by ACC Phil Kay of Leicestershire Police and Peter Ward, Head of East Midlands Learning and Development. Drawing key academics from the region together the collaboration was born, then further aided…
EMPAC is proud to announce a key event, supported by the Police Knowledge Fund, on a critical issue for policing. Human Trafficking in the UK: Challenges and Implications for Policing is a free event, to be held at Loughborough University on January 20th from 9:00am until 3:30pm. Key note contributors…
EMPAC is all about bringing together the best thinking and insights in order to improve policing and better protect the public. We are interested in driving accelerated innovation and enterprise in order to tackle crime. We are particularly interested in cross border, shared policing problems, for example to better understand…