Stop & Search – N8 impact
Vehicle stop checks should be recorded, and officers shouldn’t use the smell of cannabis alone to conduct a stop & search, according to Independent Office for Police Conduct (IPOC) recommendations published 20 April 2022. The report draws on research by Professor...
Call Announcement – Small Grants Award 2022/23
The 2022 call for Small Grants Awards is now live. Small Grants, Big Impact The Small Grants Award funds collaborative, targeted research into high-priority areas, new challenges, and pressing concerns in policing. Previous research projects have had a significant...
N8 PRP Launches Annual Report 2021
N8 PRP reports on the events, research, impact and achievements of its first year as a self-funded partnership. Read N8 PRP's Annual Report 2020/21. In October 2020, N8 Policing Research Partnership became a self-funded partnership. The decision by police and...
Governance, legitimacy and authority: new book explores attitudes of police chiefs
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...
New Research Award on Rural Domestic Abuse for N8 PRP Small Grant Team
Under-researched area gets new attention thanks to collaboration between University of Leeds and Cumbria Constabulary.University of Leeds academics and Cumbria Constabulary have received funding from the Home Office Police STAR Board. The project, Understanding the...
Lecture: Prof Geoff Pearson on Reforming Football Spectator Laws
Professor Geoff Pearson, N8 PRP Co-Director, will give his inaugural lecture on the 'long overdue' need to reform laws regulating football spectators. 'Time for a Clear Out: Reforming the Laws Regulating Football Spectators', to be held at University of Manchester on...
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...
Small Grants 2021: Award Announcement
Four new projects funded by N8 PRP Small Grants. N8 PRP are delighted to announce that four Small Grants have been funded, with research due to start in April 2022. All four projects will investigate the policing of exploitation and abuse, and have the potential to...
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...
