EMSOU is a leading collaborative unit based around Annesley and Hucknall, Nottinghamshire who help protect the region against serious organised crime and terrorism You can read about EMSOU’s work here:- https://www.emsou.police.uk/about. EMSOU are offering 6 paid Internships to undergraduates: a unique opportunity to learn work-based skills with a top employer. …
In the 21st century, cracking crime in a sustainable way, amidst limited public service budgets, requires a wider skills set than just traditional investigation. New, more creative ways are needed to proactively get upstream and cut crime by tackling its causes, rather than relying on triaged police resources responding to…
Dr Jade Lynne Farrell, Senior Consultant at Cordis Bright, on behalf of the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), is currently running a short survey on is Reducing children’s involvement in violence. This includes hearing from frontline officers, senior leaders and civilian staff analysts/researchers. To share your views, there is a 10-minute…
There is well-worn phrase that the public are the police and the police are the public, attributed to Robert Peel and the first Metropolitan Commissioners, Rowan and Mayne (1829). Storch (1975) reminds us that the notion of the creation of a professional Police was not popular, partly because of…
Dr John Rumbold is a Lecturer in Law at NTU (one of the new NPCC -PACEs) and is scoping a study of sexsomnia with a view to devising training and an assessment tool. The aim of his research is to improve the investigation and prosecution of crimes where sexsomnia is raised…
The Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) is holding a one-day conference on Tuesday 24th June at The Yard, De Montfort University, Leicester, with a focus on Innovation, Rapid Assessment, Response, and Legitimacy. The line-up includes: 🔹Welcome from Professor Katie Normington (Vice-Chancellor, DMU) 🔹 Keynotes from Professor Paul Taylor (Chief…
De Montfort University is hosting an important event on Monday 19th May, 2025, to bring together police professionals and academic researchers across the East Midlands and beyond to boost research activity and impact. The event will be structured around facilitated by Dave Hill of Jumpthink to encourage co-production of ideas.…
The East Midlands Police Academic Collaboration has published a report about how Leicestershire Police partnership working, led by Chief Inspector Jim Heggs, has saved over £1.9 million by cutting repeat offending. The evaluative work has been carried out by Professor John Coxhead (Loughborough and Staffordshire Universities), Associate Professor Chris Campbell…
licing 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…