Events


In posing fundamental questions and promoting debate on contemporary policing issues, The Police Foundation aims to stimulate new ideas and challenge existing policies and practices outside (but still involving) government and the police service. Our lectures and events provide a forum for academics, practitioners, policy makers and the general public to debate these important issues.

• The Police Foundation, together with Oxford University's Centre for Criminology, host the Oxford Policing Policy Forum which meets four times a year. A group of invited academics, police officers and policy makers come together to freely debate contemporary policing issues.  
  
  
• The Police Foundation's annual John Harris Memorial Lecture has, since 1983, been an ideal platform for a long line of distinguished speakers to speak out on important policing issues of the day. Last year, the Right Honourable Lord Patten of Barnes talked about Police Reform.

Publications

The Police Foundation has long produced reports and papers on policing and related issues.  We have an extensive list of Publications, most of which are available to buy in hard copy. Others can be downloaded (in pdf format) for free. To open them you will need to download Adobe Reader (click on link below).

The Police Foundation has also hosted three Independent Inquiries, all of which have led to changes in policing policy and practice. The Police Foundation provides an ideal forum for independent inquiries into policing and related issues, as it is independent of both government and the police service.