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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...
LONG READ: Policing the long crisis: an appraisal of the police response to Covid-19
Blogs, Police legitimacy
Jon Clements, Director, Development – Crest Advisory and Elisabeth Aitkenhead, Research Offic...
Fear of crime in the gig economy
Blogs, Robbery, Violent crime
Takieddine Boudhane was stabbed to death in Finsbury Park after a driving altercation. Jabed Hussain...
LONG READ: Policing the pandemic: public attitudes to police visibility, enforcement and fairness
Blogs, Police legitimacy, Policing and Covid-19
Jon Clements, Director, Development – Crest Advisory; Michael Skidmore, Senior Researcher R...
Greater transparency is required around the use of police data to inform decisions in prison
Blogs, Digital technology, Justice
In July 2018 the then Justice Secretary David Gauke MP announced that new technology would be introd...