MSc in Policing
Policing: Learning to Lead
We explore how policing leaders learn and also how some of the context within which policing education currently takes place...
Coaching
Morale Building within the Police Service in today’s Economic Climate
Employees either being forced to leave due to redundancy or ‘jumping ship’ for better opportunities.
Education
Police Education in America
The monster that ate police education in America by Gary Cordner About 100 years ago, Berkeley police chief August Vollmer convinced the University of California to establish a police school. By the 1930s, programs in Read more…
Policing
Licensing the use of Stop and Search
The HMIC Stop And Search Report has recently been published and it has generated a good debate among Policing Matters LinkedIn Members. I was specifically asked by some members to pass comment about the topic, so Read more…
Policing
Sue Akers has been awarded a CBE
Congratulations from the Policing Matters team to Sue Akers, who was recently awarded a CBE for services to policing, in the 2013 Queens Birthday Honours. Joining the force in 1976, Sue Akers, CBE, QPM, she retired in 2012 from Read more…
Leadership
Targets and the Police Performance Mindset
“Policing Matters think that the current way of doing business has served its time and purpose. It has arguably delivered results – but there have been some significant positive and negative costs to the approach. Read more…
Policing
Lord Stevens Review
As I’m sure you will be aware, the Labour Party (UK) have commissioned Lord Stevens to conduct an independent review of the role of modern policing. Professor Jennifer Brown from the London School of Economics Read more…
Policing
Policing Governance
I have already voiced my concern about the lack of evidence to support such a whole hearted change in the governance of UK policing. In times of extreme financial constraint it seems less than prudent Read more…
Policing
Comment on Peter Neyroud’s review of Policing Leadership: our view
Peter, thank you for using Policing Matters as a medium for research. I think this has given us a real opportunity to contribute to a debate that is very close to all our hearts. My Read more…