N8 PRP Annual Report 2019/20
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N8 PRP Annual Report 2019/20 POLICING RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP n8prp.org.uk Contents Foreword by Andy Cooke ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Director’s Introduction – Adam Crawford .....................................................................................................................................................................4 Introducing the New Leadership Team: Academic Co-Director - Geoff Pearson .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Policing Co-Director – Ngaire Waine .............................................................................................................................................................................8 1 Partnerships and Evidence-Based Policing Policing and the N8 Research Partnership – Annette Bramley ...................................................................................................................10 In Conversation with Justin Partridge .................................................................................................................................................................. 12 In Conversation with ACC Chris Sykes ................................................................................................................................................................. 15 From Evidence-Based Policing to Practice – Andy Fielding ........................................................................................................................ 16 You Cannot Claim To Be Aspirational About The Future Whilst Clinging So Tightly To The Past – Rob Ewin ........................ 18 Fragile Alliances: Culture, Funding And Sustainability In Police-Academic Partnerships – Matt Bacon, Joanna Shapland, Layla Skinns and Adam White ...............................................................................................................................................................................................20 Co-Production In Crisis? Shared Challenges For Policing And Academia – Liz Aston .....................................................................22 Forty Years Of Conducting Research For, And With, The Police – Johannes Knutson ..................................................................................24 2 Data Analytics and Training Reflecting on the Role of Data Specialists in Policing – Fiona McLaughlin............................................................................................26 Training and Learning: A Review – Jude Towers .............................................................................................................................................28 Why the Programme for ‘Data Specialists in Policing’ is more important now than ever – Scott Keay ......................................30 Practitioners’ Experience of the N8 ‘Empowering Data Specialists in Policing’ CPD Course – Andrew White .......................32 Practitioners’ Experience of the N8 ‘Empowering Data Specialists in Policing’ CPD Course – ‘Northern Analysis Group’ ....34 3 Evaluation, Impact and the Small Grant Scheme First Four Years of the N8 PRP – Tiggey May, Richard Sen and Mike Hough .........................................................................................36 Police/Academic Perspectives on Evidence: Implications for Co-Production – Mike Rowe, Pam Davies, Donna Marie Brown and Paul Biddle .....................................................................................................................................................................38 Unquantifiable Benefits: Some Notes On The Evaluation Of The Small Grants Programme – Geoff Page .............................. 40 Identifying Sexual Trafficking Online – Xavier L’Hoiry, Dr Alessandro Moretti and Georgios Antonopoulos..........................42 Policing Child-to-Parent Violence: Lessons from England and Wales – Sam Lewis, Ella Holdsworth and Jose Pina-Sánchez .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 44 4 Insights from Policing the Pandemic Police And Research Collaborations In A Covid-19 World – Gloria Laycock .........................................................................................46 COVID-19: Predicting Crime in a Pandemic World – Eric Halford ........................................................................................................... 48 The N8 PRP’s Response to COVID-19 .....................................................................................................................................................................51 5 Innovation and Leadership Tackling Knife Crime from Existing Resources – Steve Brookes ................................................................................................................52 Developing and Implementing a Violence Reduction Strategy – Rachael Staniforth ........................................................................54 A Strategic Review of Policing – Rick Muir ..........................................................................................................................................................56 Legitimacy, Leadership and Governance – Ian Shannon .............................................................................................................................58 Police Use Of Body Worn Cameras – Declan Falconer .................................................................................................................................. 60 Alcohol And Mental Health: Reducing Stigma And Harm In Uk Police Officers – Patricia Irizar ..................................................62 N8 PRP BY NUMBERS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................65 1 n8prp.org.uk Foreword am delighted to provide this foreword to the 2020 Annual Report, as the N8 Policing Research Partnership I moves to a new phase in its development with the establishment of a co-funding model with a shared directorship by academic and policing partners. The world is changing faster than ever and so too is the landscape of crime and how we tackle it. Added to those challenges, is how the UK will look as we emerge from the ravages of the pandemic and what impact this will have on criminality and vulnerability. These challenges and complexities necessitate a nimble, effective and professional response and such skills are enhanced through partnerships like the N8 PRP. This has been evidenced in recent evaluations of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (including the Birkbeck College study reported here) which demonstrate how the partnership has helped to foster police innovations through research, enabled collaborations, provided skills training for analysts and fostered organisational learning across policing. My own force has a vision to work as one team, putting its communities first and recognising that the effectiveness of policing will depend on the quality of our relationships with our communities. Partnerships, such as that with the N8 PRP, are instrumental to the effectiveness of our policing capability and this has been demonstrated in Merseyside through the Coercive Control research and evaluation funded by an N8 PRP small grant. In this the role of the N8 PRP was crucial as the principal facilitator of the collaboration between Lancaster University and Merseyside Police’s Evidence Based Practice Hub. The research provided a significant and crucial insight into our response to Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control, the results of which highlighted some vital organisational learning points and best practice. Consequently, a training package was developed, incorporating the results of the research, which was delivered to over 700 staff across the force and has since been embedded into the training programme for the long term. I am very much looking forward to further collaborations through the N8 PRP and the benefits that such partnerships produce across UK law enforcement. I am delighted that one of my colleagues, Chief Superintendent Ngaire Waine will help provide the N8 PRP with leadership as the new Co-Director of the partnership. Andy Cooke QPM Chief Constable Merseyside Police 2 3 n8prp.org.uk on those people whose vulnerability dependent on much more than the pandemic. I have been impressed by derives from their precarious and coercive powers to enforce and punish the varied ways in which collaborations Director’s Introduction sometimes problematic relationship transgressions. It depends on the between researchers and front-line with the police as an institution; complex interplay between a diversity officers, as well as policing managers, t gives me considerable pleasure to introduce the fifth Annual those who due to their social of actors and agencies with differing have been mobilise so rapidly to assist Report of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP), my disadvantage, marginalisation or competencies and responsibilities, with unfolding challenges of policing. last as Director. Since we launched the