Doing Research in Policing

Autumn 2016 P-ACE Development Events

15th October 9.00-14.00

Course: Doing Research in Policing

Join us for this free, half-day in-person course designed to equip police practitioners and academics with the skills to drive evidence-informed practice.

Doing Research in Policing provides a comprehensive, practical approach to getting started with designing and undertaking your policing-related research project. The course is designed for police practitioners (officers and staff) who are embarking on research projects who want guidance and practical advice. You’ll hear directly from both academics and from police practitioners themselves, learning from real-world examples of getting research off the ground. The course is also open to Early Career Researchers in academia.

Please note, a separate course ‘Designing Ethical Research in Policing’ [here] takes place the afternoon before this course (afternoon of 14th October). For participants doing both courses and staying over the night of the 14th October, members of the PACE team will be delighted to join you for a drink after the first course. For advice on accommodation please contact [email protected].

Aims

· To illustrate the variety of research conducted in policing

· To explore the experiences of researchers who have conducted research in policing

· To outline how to design pilots for research

· To explore examples of potential police research and identify how they could be researched by police officers and police staff

This course is brought to you by the University of Portsmouth’s Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (UoP P-ACE). UoP P-ACE provides a central gateway between policing and academia to co-produce the knowledge which shapes policing practice. In keeping with the University’s long history of working with policing, the Centre has a clear focus on building the necessary future skills for both police practitioners and researchers.

Programme

Time

Title

Speaker

0900

Arrival

0915

Welcome Introduction

Professor Mark Button

0930

Doing Policing Research: An Academic perspective

Professor Sarah Charman

1015

Doing Police Research: A Practitioner perspective Part 1

Richard Sinclair, City of London Police

1100

Coffee

1115

Doing Policing Research: A Former Practitioners Perspective Part 2

Dr Peter Neyroud, University of Cambridge and former Senior Police Officer

1200

Designing Pilots for Research

Dr Alejandra De La Fuente

1230

Lunch

1300

Case Studies and Groupwork

Professor Mark Button, Dr Alejandra De La Fuente, Professor Karen Shalev and Professor Becky Milne

1400

Close

Speakers

Professor Mark Button

Mark Button is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the University of Portsmouth. He was founder and Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth between 2010-2022. Mark has written extensively on counter fraud, cybercrime, cyber-fraud and private policing issues, publishing many articles, chapters and completing eleven books, including Economic Crime: From Conception to Response; Private Policing and Cyber Frauds, Scams and their Victims. Some of the most significant research projects include a Home Office funded study on victims of computer misuse, leading the research on behalf of the National Fraud Authority and ACPO on fraud victims; the Department for International Development on fraud measurement, and an ESRC funded project on ageing and fraud in the UK and South Korea. Mark also worked for four years on the Government’s Annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey. Mark is also a Co-Founder and President of the International Society of Economic Criminology. Mark completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, his Masters at the University of Warwick and his Doctorate at the London School of Economics.

Professor Sarah Charman

Dr Sarah Charman is Professor of Criminology and Co-Director of the Policing Academic Centre of Excellence at the University of Portsmouth. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice and Senior Associate Fellow at the Police Foundation. She has researched and published widely on the sociology of policing and the policing organisation, most notably on policing cultures, police leadership, police recruits and police retention. Sarah has advised and worked with a number of government bodies and local and national policing organisations and is a regular contributor to both the national UK press and policing practitioner publications.

Dr Alejandra De La Fuente Vilar

Alejandra De La Fuente Vilar is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth. She leads the UoP P-ACE Research Support Service. She is also a Research Fellow of ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre and Ombudsperson of the European Association of Psychology and Law.

Alejandra earned a joint PhD in Psychology from Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Her dissertation received doctoral awards by the American Psychology and Law Society, and the European Association of Psychology and Law. She holds a BA Psychology by the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), a MSc Forensic Psychology from Maastricht University and she was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia (Canada).

Alejandra’s expertise is on eliciting information, aimed at improving evidence‑based investigative interviewing in police and security settings. Recent relevant policing work, and funding, includes collaborations with the UK Centre for Research and Evidence CREST on online elicitation contexts, with the FBI’s High‑Value Detainee Interrogation Group on time critical questioning, and on ethnicity and missing persons reporting interviews with the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.

Professor Becky Milne

With over 200 publications (H-Index 54, with over 10,000 citations), her research as a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and as a Chartered Forensic Psychologist has concerned the best ways to access reliable testimony, especially from those deemed most vulnerable, by developing novel communication techniques. Jointly with practitioners, she has helped to create procedures that improve the quality of interviews of witnesses, victims, intelligence sources, and suspects. She works closely with the police (and other criminal justice organisations), creating practical solutions based on research, developing training, running interview courses, co-writing National Guidance (e.g. The Achieving Best Evidence Guidance, MoJ) and providing case advice (e.g. London Bridge terror attacks, War Crimes Team, Southport case, Sarah Everard case). She is the Founder and Director of the Centre of Forensic Interviewing, an internationally recognised centre of excellence. She has supervised over 30 Doctorate students to successful completion, the majority being practitioners within the CJS from all over the world (e.g. Australia, Brazil, Norway, UAE, USA). She was awarded the National accolade of Research Supervisor of the Year – Highly Commended by the Times Higher Education (December 2022). She is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Police Science and Management. She was given the Tom Williamson award for her outstanding achievements in the field of investigative interviewing by NPCC in April 2009. In 2020 she was the sole awardee of the British Psychology Society Award for Excellence in Forensic Psychology Research. She is the UK MC Representative for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) project- Establishing Networks to Implement the Mendez Principles.

Dr Peter Neyroud CBE QPM PhD

Peter Neyroud is an Associate Professor in Evidence-based policing based in the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on, amongst others, police diversion of offenders, crime harm, police ethics, community policing, the impact of COVID 19 on policing and police leadership and management. He has published books on Police Ethics, Police leadership and on the Policing of COVID 19. Peter was a police officer for more than 30 years, serving in Hampshire, West Mercia and Thames Valley (as Chief Constable). He set up and ran the National Policing Improvement Agency (as Chief Constable and Chief Executive). In the latter role he was responsible for national implementation of all the major programmes in UK policing, including Neighbourhood Policing, Workforce reform and new technology. In 2010, he was commissioned by the UK Home Secretary to carry out a fundamental “Review of Police Leadership and Training” which led to the establishment of the National College of Policing in 2012 and radical reform of the qualifications and training of police officers, creating the new “Police Education Qualification Framework”. He is a member of the Campbell Collaboration (Crime and Justice Group) and led an international collaboration on prevention of terrorism and radicalization. He is currently an expert on the UKRI funded METIUS programme to deliver systematic reviews with AI support. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Visiting Professor at Teesside and Huddersfield Universities, Visiting Fellow at the Indian School of Business and an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. He is the Chair of the Blue Lamp Trust.

Professor Karen Shalev

Prof. Karen Shalev is one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of missing persons. Karen collaborates on research projects with practitioners and academics from around the world. She is the lead and co-organiser of the bi-annual international conference for missing children and adults. She is the co-host of the new ‘Missing Persons Uncovered‘ podcast series.

Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Sinclair

Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Sinclair is Lead for the National Police Chiefs

Council (NPCC) National Cybercrime Team & Head of National Fraud & Cyber Protect,

and a police officer with the City of London Police. With over two decades of policing

experience, Richard has been commended for leading investigations of national and

international serious and organised crime groups targeting drugs, firearms, modern

day slavery, fraud, cyber, and economic crime. Richard’s academic work, with the University of Cambridge, utilising big data to forecast romance fraud victimisation by hotspot, was published by the American Society of Criminology in 2023. Richard is currently conducting evidence-based research as part of his PhD study with the University of Cambridge on how to protect victims of fraud and online crime with targeted crime prevention messaging.

Please note - Post June/July Richard’s role is scheduled to change to - Head of Fraud Threat Leadership at the NCA’s National Economic Crime Centre