News & Events

Prof Kevin Morrell is organising a conference on the topic of public confidence in policing on 29th March 2016. The event is sponsored by the British Academy and by Warwick Business School. Because it is a small venue this event is invitation only, but contributions will be recorded and made publicly available on the conference website (also look out for #confidenceagenda2016).

The audience will mainly be academic researchers studying policing or public management and governance, there will be some police officers with interests in public confidence and people from civil society and the world of policy.

To register an interest in attending please email kevin dot morrell at wbs dot ac dot uk briefly explaining your interest in policing and public confidence.

Please visit the conference website for more details: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/projects/public-confidence-in-policing/events-features/

The second volume on safeguards for young suspects has been published. It is the result of a large-scale research project funded by the European Union and with the participation of researchers from five jurisdictions, including COPR member Prof Jackie Hodgson. The project consists of a comparative empirical study of the different legal procedural safeguards in place in Belgium, England and Wales, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands.

The first part of the research project resulted in the publication of 'Interrogating Young Suspects - Procedural Safeguards from a Legal Perspective' (Panzavolta, M., de Vocht, D., Van Oosterhout, M. and Vanderhallen, M. (eds) (2015) Intersentia). The second volume has now been published: 'Interrogating Young Suspects: Procedural Safeguards from an Empirical Perspective' (Panzavolta, M., de Vocht, D., Van Oosterhout, M. and Vanderhallen, M. (eds) (2016) Intersentia). This second volume contains the results of the empirical research conducted in the five Member States consisting of focus group interviews and observations of recorded interrogations. These country reports are followed by an integrated analysis and a set of guidelines.

Both volumes are available on the project website under project publications http://youngsuspects.eu

Next week, Jackie Hodgson - with the assistance of her PhD student, Divya Sukumar - will be training over 80 officers from Greater Manchester Police on safeguards for young suspects during police interrogation. This training session flows from Jackie's participation in a large-scale, EU-funded research project in collaboration with colleagues from four other jurisdictions. The project consists of a comparative empirical study of the different legal procedural safeguards for young suspects in place in Belgium, England and Wales, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands.

More information on the research project is available on the project website: http://youngsuspects.eu

The Centre for Operational Police Research is delighted to be hosting the Midlands branch of the Society of Evidence Based Policing regional annual conference on 22 June 2016. COPR has obtained some funding from the Warwick's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account to host the conference which will look at how research can be used to inform policing best practice and policy.

Full Programme

Friday 9th October 2015, University of Warwick

On Friday 9th October 2015, COPR will be hosting a workshop on public confidence in policing that will feature speakers from the West Midlands Police. The event will convene in Room s2.12 at 10:30am for the first of its two sessions. Tea and coffee will be available in Room s2.09 from 10am. Lunch will also be served on the day and the event will conclude at 4pm. The event represents a valuable opportunity for discussion and interaction between academics researching policing related areas and policing practitioners on matters with significant policy relevance.

All COPR members are welcome and are encouraged to attend.

On Wednesday 26^th August, COPR members met with Simon Ruda, Mónica Wills Silva, and Ross Broad from the Behavioural Insights Team, and A/Insp Iain Martin, DCI James Raphael, and DI Kirsty Goldsmith from the Metropolitan Police.

The aim of the event was to discuss research priorities and collaborations for a behavioural insights group within the Metropolitan Police under the sponsorship of Commander Simon Letchford.

On Tuesday 10 March 2015, the Criminal Justice Centre, in conjunction with COPR, hosted a seminar on interviewing suspects that was delivered by Professor Ray Bull (Professor of Criminal Investigation at the University of Derby and Emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester) and Professor Paul Taylor (Professor of Psychology at the University of Lancaster and Professor of Human Interaction at Twente University).

A healthy crowd including professorial staff, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students from the Schools of Law and Psychology listened to both speakers presenting their research on police interview techniques. Professor Bull drew on his previous and latest research on the disclosure of evidence to suspects, while Professor Taylor spoke about his extensive research on interpersonal sensemaking in cross-cultural interactions.

Both talks were followed by a number of questions from those in attendance that generated stimulating and thought provoking discussions about the methodological and theoretical implications of the research findings presented by both speakers.

The Centre for Operational Policing Research holding a networking lunch on 8th December, 12:00-14:30. The lunch is open to all researchers at Warwick working on projects with the police. Registration is now closed.