Largely unregulated and unseen, the private rented sector is fertile ground for exploitation. How can police respond? This year, a team led by University of York were awarded an £827k grant to investigate criminality in the private rented sector and co-produce...
A major new study investigates how police can identify and respond to vulnerability in the context of county lines.In one of the first studies to conduct a national investigation on the issue, N8 PRP partner the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre...
Police malpractice - from routine disproportionality to shocking abuses of power - is often blamed on 'police culture'. Does this illuminate the issues, and help us to resolve them? Drawing on his new book Disassembling Police Culture (Routledge, 2023),Dr Mike Rowe,...
"Policing needs to adopt the compassion process as well as compassionate leadership." Dr Fiona Meechan, Course Director for the Police Strategic Command Course at The College of Policing in 2021 and 2022, shares research and key findings from her recently-completed...
A new study led by Dr Patsy Irizar (University of Manchester) has produced an in-depth understanding of police employees’ experiences of at-risk drinking and abstinence from alcohol. Causes and Consequences Policing in the United Kingdom (UK) can be a highly stressful...
COVID's legacy for police of elision and mistrust Dr Camilla de Camargo, lecturer in criminology at Lancaster University, discusses how Covid changed her research, and how existing issues have been exacerbated by the pandemic. I’ve long been interested in public...
Maisie Watling and Olivia Wooley discuss their 12 month internship with West Yorkshire Police on 'Communications with 'Hard to Reach' Groups', the recent webinar, and their impact. On Tuesday 26 July, we presented key findings from our year-long internship within the...
Dr Ian Shannon, former deputy chief constable of North Wales Police, has recently published a book exploring how chief police officers understand the right of police to exercise power - ‘Chief Police Officers’ Stories of Legitimacy: Power, Protection, Consent and...
Dr Eric Fletcher discusses how a problem-based learning pilot scheme is providing violence-reduction education for those most at risk. We are all more or less vulnerable to harm throughout our lives. For most of us we can draw on skills to positively cope with these...
Professor Nicole Westmarland discusses how domestic abuse policing changed in 2021, how to turn positive developments into real improvements, and what more needs to be done. I hesitated in writing the title of this article. As a natural optimist, I first of all wrote...
