Join us for a knowledge exchange conference organised by the UCL Centre for Global City Policing. The event will explore what people expect from the police and what the service is willing, and able, to provide.
This deliberative conference will bring police practitioners and researchers together to define problems, and start the process of finding answers. It will enable the co-production of knowledge that is directed towards the needs of police practitioners and organisations but which is founded in robust, sophisticated, academic research. By bringing multiple voices into the conversation, from within policing and beyond, the project will seek to enable both honest and open debate about what those problems are and to develop innovative, outside-the-box, research responses to them.
Schedule
9.30am: Registration
10am: Introduction
- Professor Ben Bradford (UCL)
- Professor Adam Crawford, Co-Director of the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre (University of York and University of Leeds)
10.15am: Session 1: Police and Public Relations: Lessons from Operation Soteria Bluestone
Speakers:
- Professor Katrin Hohl, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, City University
- Professor Betsy Stanko, OBE, Early Intervention Foundation
- DSI Nicola Franklin, Lead Responsible Officer for Rape & Serious Sexual Offences, Metropolitan Police
11.50am: Lunch
12.50pm: Session 2: Demand Management: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Reduce Non-Crime Pressures on Police Time
Speaker:
- Dr Dan Birks, Deputy Director of the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre (University of Leeds)
2.30pm: Break
3pm: Session 3: Creating a Diversion: How to Steer Young People away from Crime
Speakers:
- Dr Paolo Campana, Associate Professor in Criminology and Complex Networks, University of Cambridge
- DCI Lewis Prescott-Mayling, Thames Valley Police
- Darwin Barnado, Community Engagement Lead, Violence Reduction Unit
4.40pm: Closing remarks by Professor Adam Crawford
5pm: End