Advancing the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing: How painful lessons in suspect interviewing have led to just practice in the UK and beyond
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4M ago
Post by James Harris and Dr Martin O’Neill In his last report to the United Nations General Assembly in 2016, Juan Mendez, the former UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment identified that coercive interrogation tactics, including torture were still prevalent within policing globally. Professor Mendez identified that continued justification for such methods ranged from the “erroneous assumption that mistreatment and coercion are necessary to obtain confessions” through to the well known ‘ticking time bomb’ scenario that has been debated ..read more
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Call for Contributions
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4M ago
Post by Jessica Bombasaro-Brady Welcome back to the blog! The Editorial Board are responsible for the management of the blog and its content. The blog provides opportunity for academic discussion and debate around current policing, criminal justice, and security issues. We welcome contributions from staff and postgraduate students at CCCU, although external contributions are also welcome. CCCU has a thriving interdisciplinary network, including academics and practitioners with insight into policing, the criminal justice system, and security. All are welcome to contribute to the blog. To contri ..read more
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Foreward
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4M ago
Post by Dr. Tara Dickens Welcome to the Relaunch of the CCCU Criminal Justice blog. This is our first publication since the COVID Pandemic in 2020 (last blog July 2020), and we are delighted to refresh and re energise this platform, which offers an opportunity for valuable contributions to policing knowledge and academic discussion. The CCCU Policing provision is thriving and has been incredibly busy within our undergraduate and post graduate communities. We offer undergraduate degrees in Professional Policing, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime, and Criminal Investigation in addition t ..read more
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British Police Officers: The Under-qualified ‘Street Psychiatrists’ – Jack Stacey BTP – CCCU second year!
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4y ago
  Policing and mental health have had a complicated relationship in the past and this continues today. Sadly, a large proportion of the incidents that police are required to attend have mental health at the core. Nationally, it is estimated that mental health related incidents are responsible for about twenty percent of police time (Adebowale, 2013). Unfortunately, I have regularly found myself having to deal with these types of incidents during my four years as an operational officer and continue to do so on an almost daily basis. I frequently have sole responsibility for the immediate c ..read more
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Flexible working: Reflections and learning @wecops
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4y ago
Flexible Working @WeCops Blog by Caroline Hay and Dr Emma Williams The opportunity to work flexibly has been a widely debated subject in policing particularly in relation to diversity and the opportunities that this affords.  Flexible working is attributed to trust and is linked to a more motivated and committed workforce. In turn this promotes productivity and reduced absence. Different forms of flexible working are available and these are not restricted to gender or those with a family.   The College of Policing list examples of the different forms of this working and during t ..read more
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County lines: Exploring the academic literature in the context of the real world
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4y ago
  I started an MSc in Applied Policing Practice at Canterbury Christ Church University in September 2019. It was 11 years almost to the day since I handed in my dissertation at the end of my history degree. I had decided to study for an academic qualification related to my profession. The MSc in APP is designed for serving officers and staff and includes taught as well as research elements, which I thought would be better for me as I didn’t have a background in criminology or social sciences. Our first module was ‘Evidence Based Policing Interventions’. The assessment for this was in two ..read more
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Maintaining a Culture of Common Good: Police, community and leadership during the Covid-19 crisis
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4y ago
This blog was triggered by this weeks’ @wecops debate about the police and Covid-19 with Rob Flanagan and Mike Cunningham from the College of Policing. It received the highest ever views for us at over two million and this included members of the public, police, partners and academics. Thank you to all who took part! Terminology about lockdowns and quarantines have invoked a level of fear in many of us. Not just fear about the level of risk the current situation presents to all of us but also the fear of having our own freedoms limited and monitored as we are told to stay in, only go out once ..read more
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@wecops – Detectives debate…
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4y ago
The Detectives With thanks to guest host Detective Superintendent Henderson (@DSuptHenderson) for leading this chat in January. This is the most recent @WeCops blog from Dan Hayes and Dan Reynolds. It covers the discussion that was led by guest host Detective Superintendent Henderson (@DSuptHenderson). The aim of the discussion was to explore the role of the detective in current UK policing. The Detectives For many, becoming a detective is the highlight of a policing career, the gold at the end of the rainbow, their very reason for being. It’s a calling, a vocation, not just a job and the reas ..read more
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Academic Integrity and Making a Difference
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4y ago
The Police Education Qualification Framework (PEQF) has fundamentally changed the approach to police recruitment and the conversation about how new officers embark on a ‘professional’ career. Three entry routes dictate that ALL joiners must now have a degree (a College of Policing approved degree no less); or they will undertake a conversion programme through the higher education diploma in policing (DHEP); or the police constable degree apprenticeship (PCDA) which ultimately gives them a degree at the end of three-year probationary period. I use the term conversation above in the context of t ..read more
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Paradoxes, value, mixed messages and reaffirming the fight against crime…
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by cccupolicingandcriminaljustice
4y ago
A few years ago I remember watching the TV documentary about GMPs specialist rape unit. The honesty, complexity and visibility of really tough decisions within that team really impressed me, not least because many of the British public gain knowledge about policing and what it entails from such shows. It made refreshing viewing and highlighted to the audience that distinctions between victims and offenders are complicated, relationship issues and victims’ needs are not simple and the vulnerable characteristics involved are incredibly hard to deal with purely from a police perspective especiall ..read more
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