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...
Category: Blog
Vulnerability and violence reduction: engaging excluded children
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...
Developments in Policing Domestic Abuse: Welcome Changes, Gaps Remain
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...
Hands, face, cyber space: How the pandemic is accelerating the growth of cybercrime
Steven Kemp, David Buil-Gil and Yongyu Zeng are the team behind ‘CyberUp – Analysing the Growth in Cybercrime during COVID-19 and Post Pandemic Trends’, funded by the Research Collaboration Fund for Research Staff of the University of Manchester, which explores...
Police powers, human rights, and legitimacy
N8PRP Academic Director, Professor Geoff Pearson, looks back on the policing of assembly during the pandemic, and forwards to the new Policing Bill and asks if we are facing a new crisis of legitimacy in the police. The Health Protection Regulations introduced during...
Partnering up to tackle cybercrime
Justin Partridge, Leeds University Business School and Visiting Fellow at the Open University Centre for Policing Research and Learning, considers the major issues facing the policing of cybercrime ahead of the second session of the 'Policing Innovation Forum 2021:...
N8 PRP’s new project manager, Helen Gordon-Smith, on the year so far and what’s ahead
As everyone has a breather over the Easter break, it seems like a moment to introduce myself as the new project manager for N8 PRP, look back on what’s happened so far, and take a look at what’s ahead for the partnership this year. I took up this role in February...
Policing and the N8 Research Partnership
Written by Dr Annette Bramley, Director of the N8 Research Partnership The aspiration of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) is to work with policing partners to transform the way research evidence is co-produced and used. Over the five year HEFCE Catalyst...
A blog by Chief Superintendent Ngaire Waine, Head of Criminal Justice at Merseyside Police and N8 PRP Policing Director
When I was appointed to the position of co-director of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP), I couldn’t have anticipated that my tenure would begin in such unusual circumstances. The impact of Covid-19 and the resulting lockdown has presented police forces...
Integrating master’s level students into the work of the N8 PRP
Donna Marie Brown and Nicole Westmarland, Durham University In 2017 we put on an N8 PRP event at Durham University aimed primarily at postgraduates on the topic of using evidence-based research to improve policing practice. We had as keynote speakers the then Durham...
