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…
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…
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…
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…
Put Detectives in Uniform With challenges to public spending forecast, alternative ways of doing things are needed (OBR, 2024). According to Deming (1986) the emphasis should be on quality outcomes, and systems should be put in place with such outcomes in mind. That means ways of doing things should be…
The East Midlands has a population of just under 5 million people, and is growing. It contains some of the most diverse areas in the UK, and its airport is used by over 3 million international travellers from 27 countries every year. Policing communication skills have to be able to…
Say hello to EMPAC’s latest Honorary Research Fellow, Dr. Gargie Rampurkar, who has recently moved from Gujarat to Leicester. Gargie was a researcher at Rajasthan Police Academy & UNICEF, Rajasthan, India, before teaching at the National Forensic Sciences University, Gujarat. Gargie has helped Indian police response capabilities by applying research methodologies, particularly…
The University of Nottingham is doing groundbreaking research about how to better extract evidence from mobile phones, by developing new efficient and reliable tools, led by Assistant Professor Helena Webb. This work about the digital economy is a top research priority because personal mobile phones are a very valuable repository…
EMPAC has been chosen to be represented in a new book edited by Professors Steven Tong (Kingston University) and Denise Martin (Abertay University and Associate Director for the Scottish Institute for Policing Research – SIPR). The new 2023 book An Introduction to Police Research, published by Routledge, features a chapter…
University of Leicester Applied Mathematics undergraduate students have been researching hot and cold spots of crime to hunt for patterns about just why crime is lower in some areas than others. Much criminological research of the past has focused on hot spots (high crime areas), but we know less about…