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LONG READ: Victims of crime need to tell their story
Blogs, Victim care
Last July I wrote a blog in which I said that police officers should see themselves as applied psych...
Jake Davison and Emad Al Swealmeen: Extremists without a cause?
Blogs, Mental health, Violent crime
The Terrorism Act (2000) has provided the foundation for counter-terrorism policy and tactics for th...
Police league tables and the reality of their impact
Blogs, Performance management
Jamie Hobday
Reading updates from the Police Foundation led me to Malcolm Hibberd’s recent blog o...
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...
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