EMPAC are pleased to announce that De Montfort University’s Inaugural Policing Student Dissertation Conference will be taking place at 9am on Friday, 24th November 2017 at The Venue (Western Avenue, Leicester, LE2 7BU) very close to the DMU campus. It will conclude by very early afternoon – no later than…
EMPAC is all about bringing research and professional practice closer together. In order to accelerate and encourage practitioners to get hands-on with research, we created a Fellowship programme. This was a great success and received noteworthy praise from the College of Policing in their national Police Knowledge Fund evaluation. Practitioner…
EMPAC has been developing some surveying tools to explore how innovative policing is. Early responses seem to suggest ‘not very’… In digging into why that might be, the pros and cons of being a hierarchical, disciplined, command and control culture come out. Operationally, we know, and would forget at our…
Policing and the digital revolution Have a look at this clip from Youtube (‘Analytics’ – it only lasts a couple of minutes) linked below and ask yourself, while you’re watching it, if this guy can do it, can a neighbourhood PCSO access such real-time intelligence as well? Analytics Analytics might…
The Policing Vision 2025, developed by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) and National Crime Agency, sets out the future for policing over the next ten years. But what are the research challenges and opportunities to help deliver this? For a start, what…
EMPAC is all about growing stronger, mutually beneficial links between research and policing professional practice, so to encourage practitioners to get get hands-on with research, we created a Fellowship programme as a stimulus. The programme was a great success, receiving noteworthy praise from the College of Policing in its Police…
EMPAC would like to celebrate its Fellows by offering some insights into what they’re up to – hearing all about them may encourage other practitioners out there to be a part of research too. EMPAC Fellowships are an innovative way of developing our policing organisations and staff at the same…
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…
EMPAC Fellows, the chief officer team and the Police and Crime Commissioner from Lincolnshire Police together with representatives of the University of Lincoln have hosted a new venture, and one with the potential for a regional roll-out. Lincolnshire have established quite a track record in innovation and this latest…
EMPAC is promoting the use of a model developed by the U.S. Army War College during the Cold War. Why you may ask! The conditions faced by policing and researchers now share a similar environment, of complexity and ambiguity: a situation VUCA was developed to help manage. EMPAC, driven by…