Lincolnshire Police Sergeant Lee Johnson has been leading important new research exploring how to better prevent assaults on police. Lee began researching the occupational culture of the police in 2007 as part of a module for a degree and his interest continued into later work during his PhD. Here, he…
County Lines is a serious ongoing professional challenge, well documented by Simon Harding in his 2020 book County Lines: exploitation and drug dealing among urban street gangs (Bristol University Press). Now NTU doctoral researcher, Barbie Nash, is conducting new research about ‘To What Extent are County Line Participants’ Entrepreneurs, Offenders…
EMPAC is pleased to be able to showcase the MSc Police Leadership, Strategy and Organisation programme at the University of Derby, which has attracted students from Staffordshire Police, Nottinghamshire Police, Derbyshire Constabulary and South Yorkshire Police. The Programme leader is Dr Richard Stapleford, a serving Chief Inspector with Nottinghamshire Police,…
As part of our core function to drive improved professional practice and innovation in policing, we work collaboratively with universities within, and beyond, our region to bring in the best ideas to benefit policing. As part of that offer, EMPAC also has an in-house capability to carry out its own…
We often hear that agencies ‘can’t do it alone’, whether that’s for safeguarding or crime prevention. Whilst the labels of interagency, multi-agency working or problem solving or interprofessional practice are referred to an awful lot – section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act even made such working a statutory…
EMPAC is all about bringing together the best thinking and insights in order to improve policing and better protect the public. We are interested in driving accelerated innovation and enterprise in order to tackle crime. EMPAC has hosted a number of successful Roundtables on key policing issues in the past,…
The Police is a noun. It’s about the body of the police. Policing is a verb. It’s the action word about keeping people safe – and that needs to involve more than just the police. It’s often said the police can’t arrest their way out of everything and can’t do…
EMPAC features the Lincolnshire Police Single Point of Contact this time: Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Chris Davison, Local Policing lead for Lincolnshire Police. EMPAC SPoCs are voluntary positions in each force and University in the region, and are crucial to ensure two-way communication to keep research focused on impact and…
Loughborough University’s Centre for Policing Innovation, Enterprise and Learning (an arm of the Loughborough Police Research Group) is working in partnership with the Police Foundation on the national Strategic Review of Policing. The Police Foundation is an independent policing think tank that uses and promotes research to improve policing. The…
The College of Policing have published notes from a discussion group to review approaches to the undergraduate evidence based policing 3rd year module that is part of the new policing degree. This is a welcome move towards clarifying some standardisation in the future that meets the requirements of the Higher…