Policing is in some ways in a perma-state of crisis over funding, yet the future is looking particularly bleak, given the increasing competitive pressures on the UK’s public service financing. As witnessed after 2010, when funding cuts dramatically changed policing (reducing neighbourhood and roads policing capacity and capabilities), even more…
Enlightenment Policing and crime related research mainly comes originally from (academic discipline-wise) sociological roots. Yet things have shifted over the years, so here we explore a little of that timeline to see what was and where we may be heading next. Crime has always been with us, but if we…
New research at the University of Essex, conducted by Hira Syed (supervised by Dr Denis Tanfa), aims to shed new light on the Effect of Occupational Stress on Decision-Making in UK Police Officers. Serving police professionals are invited to participate in this research by undertaking a confidential survey. UK police…
Policing has become dominated by an unhelpful rigid singularity in how it thinks about its professional practice. It has become obsessed with a particularly nuanced (positivist) interpretation of science, marketed as evidence based policing (Cassells, 2017; Fielding & Holdaway, 2021). Whilst any rationally informed reflexivity to boost police decision making…
The East Midlands Forensic Network (EMFN) is a collection of practitioners, academics, researchers and service providers from across the region (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland). Together, they work in partnership to champion meaningful, sector leading research and knowledge development across various areas of forensic science and practice.…
The need to make streets safer The UK Government has outlined its priority to halve knife crime within 10 years. In England and Wales, there were 50,510 knife or sharp instrument offences in the year ending March 2024, and the UK Home Office Homicide Index data reports that sharp instruments…
East Midlands Special Operations Unit are seeking a Regional Science and Innovation Manager, on a full-time, fixed-term ( end 31st March 2026) basis, to provide leadership, management and coordination of Science and Innovation across East Midlands Policing. Working with regional and national colleagues, you will provide a consistent and…
New research is being driven at the Institute of Policing, at the University of Staffordshire, to help tackle the national threat and harm from serious and organised crime (SOC). The evolving nature of criminal enterprise involves an intricate web of criminal networks, where traditional boundaries blur and new threats emerge.…
Are you looking to secure an internship with one of the most dynamic policing units? The East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) is offering an exciting opportunity for a Year in Industry (YII) placement to work and learn in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, to begin in September 2025 for…
What prevention really means EMPAC’s Professor John Coxhead presented at the national Public Policy Exchange Conference on the 15th October (https://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?eventUID=OJ15-PPE) reporting on the key research that shows prevention works better than reaction. Given budgetary pressures on all public services, including policing, different ways of doing things is now an…