Here is the latest for December 2025 EMPAC’s ongoing work # Lincolnshire Police 1000 officer project (ACC Davison) # Evaluation of night time economy violence reduction (Nottinghamshire OPCC / VRU) # Op Diversion (Nottinghamshire) Detective Inspector Richard Guy # National Security Policy and Research CoLab (Government Office for Science /…
The UK Cabinet Office reported in 2018 that serious and organised crime (SOC) affects more UK citizens, more often, than any other national security threat. It costs the UK at least £37 billion annually. It’s therefore quite right EMPAC is prioritising SOC in the research and innovation regional agenda. They…
EMPAC’s first Research Cafe, in February, stimulated a lot of new connections and showed it really is good to talk. And some coffee and cake helps too! Thanks are due to the organising of Chief Inspector Dan Pedley and Graham Pickering in helping bring people together. There’s a second event…
In the Willy Russell play Educating Rita (1980), later a film (1983), Frank, the academic, confronts his student, Rita, with the line, “..found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing..”. There is plenty of change afoot in ‘professionalising’…
Policing can be stressful! There are increasingly complex demands placed upon police professionals, with long hours, high levels of accountability and too often the threat of conflict and violence. So it’s right that well-being is being treated more seriously in policing. It’s not just about trying to respond to colleagues…
Update: Because of COVID-19, this event is to be re-scheduled, and new arrangements will be made just as soon as restrictions are lifted. EMPAC continues its work on collaborative research and innovation on-line, using video conference via Skype and Zoom, telephone and email in the meantime and invites you get…
EMPAC is pleased to be able to invite you to a Research Café, generously hosted by Leicestershire Police, to join up academic researchers with front-line policing. Get it in your diary now! The Research Café is an opportunity for research postgraduates as well as researchers to get together and talk…
Serious Organised Crime (SOC) costs the UK at least £37 billion annually. In the East Midlands region, the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) is working closely with all relevant academic departments within De Montfort University (DMU) to deliver against the national Serious Organised Crime Strategy and to get…
There are some who regard undergraduate dissertations as not ‘proper research’ but we at EMPAC see a lot of benefit for lots of reasons. Many of the dissertation writers are exploring a possible career in policing and they often focus their attention on ‘real-world’ professional issues, that offer genuine ‘new…
Forces have been under pressure to are under pressure to respond to increasing demand with fewer resources, and account for their efforts through Force Management Statements (FMS). Now, policing professionals and and academic researchers are increasingly working together to break out beyond the reactive cycle and get ‘upstream’ to reduce…