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In defence of police league tables
Blogs, Performance management
In my last blog I suggested that performance targets may not be the unquestionable evil that some pe...
Open source intelligence – the Cinderella of the investigative family?
Blogs, Crime investigation, Digital technology
Sir Mark Rowley QPM OSINT (open source intelligence) can be a powerful intelligence and investigativ...
Police performance targets: the devil’s work?
Blogs, Learning and development, Performance management
The subject of performance targets continues to evoke strong negative reactions. In my last b...
Police targets: knowing the difference between apparent performance and actual performance
Blogs, Performance management
Whenever I present a course on police performance, I begin by posing the question ‘what IS p...
Crime detection isn’t key to victim satisfaction
Blogs, Crime investigation, Police legitimacy, Victim care
In my last blog I suggested that when police officers talk to victims of crime, they should think of...
Victim reassurance: a good police officer needs to be an applied psychologist
Blogs, Crime investigation, Police legitimacy, Victim care
Just before lockdown I worked with a police force to ‘train’ their officers on how to deal with ...
What does the Police Foundation do? Everything you wanted to know about think tanks but were afraid to ask
Blogs, Public policy
During the first few weeks of lockdown when our work programmes, events and projects were paused whi...
Wellbeing watchlist: five challenges for UK policing post Covid-19
Blogs, Police wellbeing, Policing and Covid-19
Geoff Newiss, Research Associate, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth Af...
Crime targets are back, what’s the plan Bob?
Blogs, Performance management
Bill and Bob have the same goal. Both need to get in shape and improve their health. Their doctor te...
Crypto-currency enabled future crime
Blogs, Cybercrime, Digital technology, Organised crime
Ever since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009 and the massive growth of distributed ledger technologie...
Radical reform is required if the police service is to look like the society it serves
Blogs, Police legitimacy
The Mayor of London has recently published an Action Plan to improve black Londoners’ trust an...
The value of digital forensics
Blogs, Crime investigation, Digital technology
It is hard to imagine a crime where digital evidence does not play a role in its investigation. This...