In today’s blog, IPSCJ Manager Sarah Armstrong-Hallam tells the story of what led her to play a pivotal role in the launch of the institute and how her current work on the SHE project is…
By Dr Matthew Callender We’re currently in the process of carrying out a consultation on the perception of crime and anti-social behaviour to feedback to the police about the public’s views on issues such as confidence…
IPSCJ Director, Laura Knight, gives us an update on the IPSCJ’s evaluation of the Community Sentence Treatment Requirement and explains how work on the ground will help assess the long-term outcomes for women with underlying mental…
By Dr Matthew Callender Early intervention is the catchphrase on everyone’s lips when it comes to ways of really cutting crime, as well as solving the funding crisis that policing finds itself in. It’s clear…
In this video, our very own Dr Berni Doran explains the evaluation of police force coaching following its introduction under the EMPAC Organisational Transformation network. Berni details what happened when Northamptonshire police requested an assessment of the…
Two 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, does the CHI epitomise EMPAC’s tag line of ‘driving innovation…
Supt. Dave Hill, EMPAC Programme Director, answers the question he is regularly asked by people who are just finding out about EMPAC for the first time: “what will EMPAC offer that the College of Policing and universities…
IPSCJ Director, Laura Knight, recently travelled to the USA to speak at a Dallas law enforcement conference. During her visit, Laura discovered how similar American policing challenges are to our own in the UK, discussed the prospect…
Director of the IPSCJ and Network Lead for Organisational Transformation for EMPAC, Laura Knight, discusses the challenges facing the future of evidence-based policing. Earlier this week I attended a workshop involving representatives from across the police-academic collaborations,…
Following Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary’s warning to police forces around the volume of digital evidence recently, Director of the IPSCJ, Laura Knight, EMPAC Network lead for Organisational Transformation, assesses how organisations can evolve to…
