The Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University is holding a one day symposium on Wednesday 16th November 2016. The focus is on ‘Policing violence: risk and resources’. The purpose is to share policing-related research conducted by researchers from across Loughborough University. Sessions will include effective understanding, and policing, of violence applied to…
Research, Innovation and Enterprise are central to what policing in the East Midlands is all about. EMSOU has been hailed as the best example of collaborative working of its type in the UK. Now, EMPAC is actively researching in several areas to discover new ways of doing things or responding…
Whilst meeting people in our region one question that has popped up is – what’s the difference between ‘knowledge’ (as in the Police knowledge Fund), ‘evidence’ (as in EBP / evidence based policing) and ‘research’. What’s in a name? Perhaps we shouldn’t get bogged down in labels – but understandably…
Dave Hill, EMPAC’s Programme Director, is a key note speaker at a national conference on coaching. Dave will be presenting on new leadership paradigms, based on his extensive background in psychology and NLP, and his new PhD research on leadership in complex systems. This is the 14th Anniversary Conference for…
Did you know just how wide and deep the research driven by EMPAC universities in the East Midlands is? Have a look at this jaw dropping sample of just some of the expertise there is! The EMPAC web has themes and topics listed so you simply click on a topic…
Rick Muir of the Police Foundation (an independent think tank) has argued in a recent article that changes, not cuts, are the police’s greatest challenge. Muir reviews the changing nature of crime and points to technology as the reason for change. For example, the Office of National Statistics identifies 5.8…
The Government has published a Modern Crime Prevention Strategy – for a free full download of the strategy and summary booklet go to www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-crime-prevention-strategy. The Modern Crime Prevention Strategy refreshes thinking about crime prevention. It’s an interesting opportunity to reflect how research has informed work on prevention. The new Strategy…
EMPAC was delighted to host yesterday’s National Citizens in Policing Summit alongside the Insititute for Public Safety, Crime and Justice. Delegates from forces, PCC’s offices and volunteer organisations across England and Wales attended the CiP Summit taking place at Manchester’s Palace Hotel on 21st July 2016. In the morning session,…
EMPAC’s new Knowledge Exchange Manager is John Coxhead, an inspector from Derbyshire Constabulary. John joins Dave Hill from Northampton to create the EMPAC core team. John has served with Derbyshire for 27 years, working in both urban and rural areas. He has most recently moved to his EMPAC secondment from…
By Supt. Dave Hill, EMPAC Programme Director Published on 15 March 2016 A question I have been asked recently by a number of people who are just finding out about EMPAC for the first time is “what will EMPAC offer that the College of Policing and universities don’t already provide?’”…