Here is the latest for March 2025
EMPAC’s ongoing work
# Regional scoping for collaboration opportunities (all forces)
# Evaluation of night time economy violence reduction (Nottinghamshire OPCC / VRU)
# National Security Policy and Research CoLab (Government Office for Science / Home Office / HM Prison and Probation Service) Organised Crime within Prisons project
# Public Policy Exchange conference paper on Gang Crime (alongside Paddy Tipping, Chair of the Nottingham Community Safety Partnership), March 2025
East Midlands Forensics Network
The East Midlands Forensics Network invite interested parties to help new co-produced research in the following thematic areas:-
- Forensic Genetics and DNA
- Jury Decision Making
- Fingerprints and Marks
- Crime Scene Examination
- Fire and Explosion Investigation
- Questioned Documents
- Biological Fluids and BPA
- Drugs and Toxicology
- Fibres, Glass and other traces
- Footwear Marks; and Firearms and Ballistics
If you want to get involved in this important work contact Dr Jo Dawkins at jo.dawkins@leicester.ac.uk.
EMPAC research bid (SOC)
EMPAC is part of a combined East and West Midlands research consortium bid for the new NPCC National Centres of Excellence, focusing on tackling serious organised crime. If successful, from April 2025, this will involve close collaboration with local forces and the National Crime Agency, coordinated through the University of Staffordshire.
New Police Federation Research Group
EMPAC’s Dr John Coxhead has been invited to serve on the newly formed Thiele Institute, hosted at Leatherhead, Surrey, to drive thought leadership research within an ethos of public service NOLAN principles.
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