CCPR Annual Conference: Problems and solutions in UK policing
(Ended 18th Jan 2024)
In-person
17th Jan 2024 to 18th Jan 2024
Booking now open!
Canterbury Centre for Policing Research Annual Conference:
‘Problems and Solutions in UK Policing’
17-18th January 2024, Verena Holmes building, Canterbury campus
£99/£49 students
The conference seeks to address a wide range of topics related to problems and solutions in policing, with a particular focus on promoting effective, ethical and sustainable approaches to enhance community safety and well-being. Researchers and experts from various disciplines and sectors will be presenting their original research papers, case studies and policy analyses over 2 days.
The conference seeks to address a wide range of topics related to problems and solutions in policing, with a particular focus on promoting effective, ethical and sustainable approaches to enhance community safety and well-being. Researchers and experts from various disciplines and sectors will be presenting their original research papers, case studies and policy analyses over 2 days.
There will also be a conference dinner, Wednesday 17th January at 8pm, which you can book here.
Conference themes:
- Transforming Policing for a Safer and Inclusive Society
- Community Safety: Engaging and empowering communities to work collaboratively with the police and other relevant agencies to enhance safety and wellbeing.
- Crime and Harm Prevention and Reduction: Innovative strategies, technologies, and partnerships to prevent and reduce crime and harm.
- Police Accountability and Ethics: Ensuring transparency, fairness, and integrity in policing practices and decision-making processes.
- Valuing Diversity and Inclusion: promoting a more representative and empathetic police service, and fostering trust with diverse communities both inside and outside the police organisation.
- Policing Vulnerable Populations: Addressing the unique challenges of policing vulnerable individuals, such as children, the elderly, minoritized and marginalised groups, and individuals with mental health issues.
- Digital Policing: Harnessing the potential of technology, data analytics, and artificial intelligence in improving operational efficiency and crime-fighting capabilities.
- Police Training and Professional Development: Enhancing the skills, knowledge, and competencies of police officers through effective training and ongoing professional development programs.
- Criminal Justice System Collaboration: Exploring collaborations and partnerships between police, judiciary, and social services to create a seamless criminal justice system.
- Policing in the Era of Cybercrime: Understanding and responding to the evolving landscape of cybercrime, online fraud, and digital threats.
- Public Perception of Policing: Examining public attitudes, perceptions, and trust in policing and strategies to improve public confidence.
- Restorative Justice and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Exploring alternative approaches to traditional criminal justice processes and promoting reconciliation and healing in communities.
AGENDA
Day 1
12:00 Registration
12:30 Opening address: Dr Tara Dickens and Dr Martin O’Neill
12:45 – 13:15 Keynote Address TBC
13:15 – 13:45 What now for VAWG? Policing Violence Against Women and Girls? Dr Chris Magill and Professor Peter Squires
13:45 – 14:15 Safe nights out: Workers’ perspectives on tackling violence against women and girls. Mary Makinde and Dr Sarah Cant
14:15 – 14:25 Q&A
14:25 – 14:35 Short break
14:35 – 15:05 Cultivating community: growing a police, academic and community collaboration from the ground up. Dr Carina O’Reilly and Insp Colin Clarkson of Lincolnshire Police
15:05 – 15:45 The Achievement of Credibility in Rape Investigations: Confirming old norms. Dr Emma Williams
15:45 – 16:15 This is not a drill Dr Katja Hallenberg, Dr David Lydon and Dr Violeta Kapageorgiadou
16:15 – 16:20 Q&A
16:20 – 16:35 Refreshment break
16:40 – 18:10 Parallel sessions
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Voice of the Child |
Op Bluestone and RASSO |
Digital Policing |
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Victim-Survivor Voices in Police Service Design
Camille IIett Dr Debra Allnock |
Police Accountability and Ethics: Ensuring transparency, fairness, and integrity in policing practices and decision-making processes. Dr Linda Maguire and Dr Richard Harding |
Cops and Polygraph: Freedom of Information-based Research Exploring Opaque Uses of Lie Detection in Criminal Justice. Professor Marion Oswald |
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Voice of the child in policing: Bridging the gaps in vulnerability related risk and harm Dr Debra Allnock Camille Ilett
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Recommendations to improve the learning and development (and well-being) of RASSO investigators. Dr Clare Rawdin
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Better Use of Images & Identification Techniques to Solve More Crime Mike Neville
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Journeys through Justice: Children’s views on improving police responses to sexual abuse. Professor Helen Beckett |
A Qualitative Exploration of Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) Investigators: Their experiences, socialisation, and culture. Zoe Callon |
Policing in the Age of the Machine.’ The Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence for Policing Purposes in England and Wales Ron Winch |
18:15 – 20:00 Wine reception
20:00 Conference dinner (optional)
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Day 2
09:00 – 09:25 Learning from Local Government Interventions: A Path to Statutory Police Reform in England and Wales. James Harris
09:25 – 09:50 Facial recognition Understanding the Face. How Facial recognition can disconnect the police from the public and what can be done about it. Abdul-Hye.Miah and Dr Neil McBride
09:55 – 10:00 Q&A
Parallel sessions
10:05 – 10:35
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Police Tutoring Processes in England and Wales: Current Challenges Professor Tom Cockcroft
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Matt Shellaker: Post-Brexit Law Enforcement Cooperation: A Practitioner’s Perspective Matthew Shellaker |
Exploring the impact of education led professionalization agenda in policing: Professional identity and engagement with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Peter Heath |
10:35 – 11:40 Refreshment break
Parallel sessions
11:40 – 12:30
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Vulnerability |
Decisions and problems |
Policing and HE |
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Exploring how police officers and appropriate adults perceive and respond to vulnerability in police custody. Police custody. Chloe MacDonald |
Reflective Practice as the missing component in police decision-making Ian Palmer |
Promoting ethical and moral reflection within higher education programmes that are concerned with enhancing community safety and wellbeing, in particular policing education Dan Williams and Dr Louise Allen-Walker |
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Vulnerable Victims: Examining Issues and Expanding Opportunities Laura Riley |
The future of Problem Solving and Evidence Based Policing, and why the biggest threat is police. Professor Jason Roach |
A Degree is not necessarily the answer to police professionalisation: A comparative analysis of police professionalisation through Higher Education (or not) in Scotland, Sweden, and Finland Dr Andy Tatnell |
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Vulnerable individuals with spectrum disorder Mike McKue |
A Partnership for Problem-Solving? A Case Study of the Collaboration between Ulster University and the Police Service of Northern Ireland on the Probationary Officer Development Programme John Bell and Sgt Michelle Martin |
Uniforms and Degrees: Investigating Student Opinions of Higher Education and Policing
Steven Wadley and Matt Phillips |
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
1315 – 13:45 Enhancing Policing Development: Leveraging International Standards for UK Police Reform. Andrew Carpenter and Chris Sharwood-Smith
13:45 – 14:15 Balancing legality and legitimacy in stop and search encounters. Sharda Murria
14:15 – 14:45 Police Specialism in England and Wales: an exploratory review Arianna Barbin
14:45 – 14:55 Q&A
14:55 – 15:15 Refreshment break
15:15 – 15:45 Police Drug Diversion (PDD): A realist impact, process, and economic evaluation- Collaboration, Manualisation and Theory of Change. Nadine Hendrie and Helen Glasspoole-Bird
15:45 – 16:15 Enhancing Community Reintegration and Desistance: Evaluating the Role of MOSOVOs in Preventing Sexual Reoffending among Vulnerable Populations Dr Sarah Pemberton
16:15 – 16:20 Q&A
16:20 Final Remarks & Close