Speaker update- Thursday, December 7th 2023 9:30am and 1:00pm 2023 between 9:30am and 1:00pm

Public Policy Exchange will be hosting a webinar on Tackling Discrimination Within Policing: The Need for Root and Branch Institutional Reform which will take place on Thursday, 7th December 2023 between 9:30am and 1:00pm 

Please click here to register online.

Programme

• Examine the recommendations made in the Police Foundation’s Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales
• Learn about the challenges posed by implicit biases and leading best practices within police forces to tackle implicit bias and prevent discriminatory practices
• Explore the legislative changes and changes in recruitment, training and disciplinary policies needed to root out discrimination from UK police forces
• Examine methods for developing strong community partnerships to build trust, understanding and consensus, especially with regard to women, LGBTQ+ people, and those from ethnic minorities
• Learn about efforts to improve the representation of women, LGBTQ+ people, and ethnic minority officers in the police force, and how this can be improved
• Analyse internal police complaints procedures and exchange view on how these can be improved to reduce discriminatory practice
• Examine how “institutional racism”, as described in the Macpherson Report, should be tackled
• Identify key actions government and police forces might take in response to the Lammy Review

Confirmed Speakers

• Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera, Director of Policing, Criminology & Justice at the University of East London
• Montell Neufville, Managing Director at ATT10TIVE Social Enterprise & Chair of the JPS Tri-Force Use of Force Community Scrutiny Panel for Beds, Herts & Cambs
• David Pearson, Trustee at ELOP - East London Out Project
• Sheldon Thomas, Chief Executive of Gangsline
• Amy Bowdrey, Policy and Public Affairs Officer at Refuge
• Lorraine Olley, Director of embraceEDI

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The European Crime Prevention Award (ECPA) and Best Practice Conference (BPC) takes place on 13 and 14 December 2023 in Valencia, Spain. The theme is preventing the trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation and other kinds of exploitation.
Interested in attending? Participation in the conference is free of charge, the working language of the conference is English. The deadline for registration is 15 November 2023!

Link to: Alternative reporting options for sexual assault: Perspectives of victim-survivors

Qualitative research by researchers from RMIT University and the University of Wollongong exploring the use of alternative reporting options for sexual assault has shown:

• Victim-survivors may prefer alternative options to reporting because of fear or intimidation associated with formal reporting, to regain power and control, to document their experiences, to protect the community, and to gain access to support services.
• Both victim-survivors and support workers expressed concern over the lack of follow-up once a report had been made.
• Alternative reporting processes were often seen as an alternative means of holding perpetrators accountable, outside of the formal justice process, rather than as a pathway to police reporting.
• Copyright © 2023 Australian Institute of Criminology, All rights reserved.

Call for abstracts

The European Crime Prevention Conference is a biennial conference organised by the Secretariat of the EUCPN and funded by the European Commission. The Conference offers a forum to share knowledge and experiences regarding crime prevention across the European Union. It welcomes policymakers, practitioners and academics, but maintains a consistent focus on the frontline. The next edition will take place on 17 and 18 April 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia. 

The European Crime Prevention Conference is seeking contributions on effective prevention strategies for organised crime. Our primary focus area is the prevention of the recruitment of young people into organised crime as well as the administrative approach to tackle serious and organised crime. Contributions should address the design and implementation of effective prevention initiatives (projects, programmes) from a practitioners’ point of view, including the challenges faced and results achieved. We are also interested in contributions that explore the necessary conditions (e.g. policy frameworks, stakeholder involvement) for the evidence-based prevention of organised crime, as well as in contributions that present new research insights and in particular their implications for the prevention of organised crime.

Abstracts for oral presentations can be submitted by filling in the template before 15 December 2023. The presentation language is English. We can host a limited number of presenters; abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis. Accepted presenters will be notified at the latest on 31 January 2024, and will have their travel costs reimbursed.