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 proud to publish a summary of Loughborough University’s new research on domestic harassment, which has been sponsored via the Home Office and HEFCE’s Police Knowledge Fund. For the full report click the following link: Characteristics of reports of the disclosure of private images and social media-enabled domestic harassment offences…
‘Driving innovation in policing’ is the tag-line of EMPAC. And two of the police forces in EMPAC are leading the way in the adoption and implementation of the ‘Crime Harm Index’ (CHI), developed at the University of Cambridge. Earlier this week EMPAC took police analysts from the East Midlands to…
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…
What is Evidence Based Policing and how can it help me? EMPAC is proud to announce a new event that showcases extensive work done in Leicestershire. Sgt Mark Brennan is a key figure in driving the implementation of evidence based policing and is to be congratulated on assembling a wide…
Hosted by EMPAC, the SEBP’s sixth annual conference followed the theme ‘Creating a culture of curiosity: Why failure is a good thing’ and was attended by a sold-out delegation of over 200 key figures from the world of policing and academia. The event provided an opportunity to advance shared objectives of…
EMPAC fellows have set hard to work after their Christmas Welcome Event. Fellows gathered at the Policing Institute at the University of Derby on the 10th January for a workshop introduction to research and evidence based practice. EMPAC Fellows have a very diverse set of backgrounds. They range across…
EMPAC Fellows have had their Christmas welcome at Nottingham Trent University and now the hard work begins! Amy Rutland of Leicestershire Police, who worked with Loughborough University, as EMPAC’s first Fellow, told the new cohort that it was a “great opportunity to have an evidence base and be heard”. Coming from a diversity…
Earlier this week I attended a workshop involving representatives from across the police-academic collaborations funded by the College of Policing, Home Office and HEFCE Police Knowledge Fund. Hosted by the University of York which leads ‘Connect, Evidence Based Policing’, this workshop brought together academics, police officers and police staff building…
EMPAC welcomes contributions from academics and practitioners (and joint ones) about policing research. Here, we’re grateful to Professor of Criminology, Simon Holdaway, for submitting a discussion piece about Evidence Based Policing and its meaning(s). As with all blogs we feature, the purpose is to provoke healthy discussion so we look forward…