Rick Muir

Director

Dr Rick Muir is Director of the Police Foundation, the UK’s independent policing think tank. He has led the Foundation since 2015 and oversaw its work on the Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales. He was previously Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), leading the Institute’s research on public services, including policing and criminal justice. He has a D Phil in Politics from the University of Oxford. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). He was previously a local councillor in both Oxford and Hackney.

Publications

Published: 9th February 2022
Related theme: Roads policing

Blog Posts

Published: 30th September 2016
In Paul Verhoeven’s dystopian 1987 film Robocop a Detroit police officer is gunned down and transformed by an evil corporation into a prototype law enforcement cyborg. Fast forward to 2016...
Published: 1st July 2016
Theme: Governance
Published: 22nd April 2016