Homehttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/en-US2012-02-24T13:27:50ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)'Total policing' requires doing less, not morehttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2012/1/19/total-policing-requires-doing-less-not-more.htmlUPSI2012-01-19T11:00:00Z

Article By: Prof Martin Innes

The Metropolitan police has a new mission – to deliver "total policing" to the people of London.

This week, Bernard Hogan-Howe, the new commissioner, set out his vision of what this involves: about how modern policing is multidimensional, encompassing a diversity of tasks beyond just preventing and detecting crime. He suggests total policing requires "a total war on criminals", "total victim care", and being totally professional. In so doing, he is seeking a more rounded depiction of the police function in society than those formulations that pivot around just one aspect (crime-fighting, zero-tolerance policing, intelligence-led policing, etc). But if it is to be a viable policing model, then three key problems cannot be overlooked.

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]]>UPSI research cited in HMIC's report on the summer riotshttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/12/22/upsi-research-cited-in-hmics-report-on-the-summer-riots.htmlUPSI2011-12-22T13:06:23Z

UPSI research is featured very prominently in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's report on the summer riots.

In the report ‘The rules of engagement: A review of the August 2011 disorders’, published on 20 December 2011, HMIC found police need to be better prepared, trained and ready to protect the public if they are to improve upon their response to public disorder.

They have adopted one of UPSI's main recommendations, referring to an all-source social media analysis hub.

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]]>Dr Colin Roberts Addresses Home Affairs Select Committee on Violent Extremist Radicalisationhttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/12/19/dr-colin-roberts-addresses-home-affairs-select-committee-on.htmlUPSI2011-12-19T10:14:40ZDr Colin Roberts addresses the Home Affairs Select Committee Conference on the Roots of Violent Radicalisation at DeMontford University, Leicester.

Speaking at a workshop chaired by RtHon Alun Michael MP, alongside Simon Cole the Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary and Christian Cullun form SIRS Consultancy, Dr Roberts spoke about overcoming barriers to engagement in Prevent

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]]>Prof. Martin Innes to speak at Institute Of Welsh Affairs Event On Police And Crime Commissioners 26-Novhttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/11/25/prof-martin-innes-to-speak-at-institute-of-welsh-affairs-eve.htmlUPSI2011-11-25T10:36:09ZLaw and Order in South Wales: the Next Five Years

29th November 2011

Jolyons Hotel, 10 Cathedral Road, Cardiff 6.45 – 8.30pm

Police forces in Wales face 20% real terms cuts to their budgets between now and 2015, according to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). Meanwhile, cuts to the Courts Service have resulted in court closures, and the Crown Prosecution Service is pushing through significant cuts, leading to reports of unmanageable caseloads.

]]>Police Review: Totally Joined Up Policinghttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/10/17/police-review-totally-joined-up-policing.htmlUPSI2011-10-17T13:37:58Zmedia ppolice review

With the appointment of Bernard Hogan-Howe as the new Met commissioner, some public commentary has focused on the style of policing he will pursue, reflecting on the ‘total policing’ he embraced during his tenure as chief constable of Merseyside Police.

I first used the term total policing in 2003 in my book Understanding social control – but what is it? What are its principles and implications? And, how does it link with the general direction of current police reform?

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]]>Corrupt and Confused?http://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/9/19/corrupt-and-confused.htmlUPSI2011-09-19T12:43:34Zmedia police

Article By: Martin Innes, Prospect Magazine

This summer, the police faced the crises of phone hacking and riots. The force is changing, but in the wrong way.

Images of police in full riot gear against a backdrop of burning buildings and marauding looters have seared themselves into the collective memory. The riots, sparked by the police shooting of a man in Tottenham (a non-police-issue gun was found at the scene), have challenged the reputation of Britain’s constabularies. In so doing, they sharpened concerns about policing that emerged a month earlier during the News International phone-hacking scandal.

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]]>Funding cuts to hit local policing hardesthttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/8/12/funding-cuts-to-hit-local-policing-hardest.htmlUPSI2011-08-12T10:33:31ZLocal police services will take the biggest hit from Government cuts to the policing budget, new analysis from Cardiff University shows.

A comprehensive and authoritative academic report by Cardiff’s Universities Police Science Institute shows Government grant for local policing will fall by £1.36bn, or 14 per cent, over the four years to 2014-15. The author, Dr Timothy Brain, former Chief Constable of Gloucestershire and ACPO lead on finance, also questions claims by ministers that the cuts can be largely absorbed by ‘back office’ efficiency savings, with little impact on front line services.

]]>Guardian Feature By Martin Innes: Phone hacking: Don't politicise the policehttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/7/19/guardian-feature-by-martin-innes-phone-hacking-dont-politici.htmlUPSI2011-07-19T09:47:08Z

It is right to call for more accountable policing, but senior officers must not be sacrificed to expediency or the public mood

"Not, then, men and their moments. Rather moments and their men." So wrote the sociologist Erving Goffman in 1967 to convey how we are not ordinarily authors of our own destiny, but shaped by webs of visible and invisible, conscious and unconscious influences. It is an insightful instruction for making sense of the current crisis engulfing the Metropolitan police. For if we want to understand why Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates resigned, and how and why the Met has come to find itself in the midst of its latest institutional crisis, we need to connect specific acts to a broader and deeper "moment" in the relations between the police, politics and the press.

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]]>Home Affairs Select Committee: The future of policinghttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/6/22/home-affairs-select-committee-the-future-of-policing.htmlUPSI2011-06-22T17:37:42Z

Cardiff’s innovative role in shaping police methods has been explained to an influential committee of MPs.

The University hosted Westminster’s Home Affairs Select Committee, as part of a national tour the Committee is making to gather evidence on the future of policing. Professor Jonathan Shepherd, Director of the Violence and Society Research Group, and Professor Martin Innes, Director of the Universities’ Police Science Institute (UPSI), were among those giving evidence.

]]>Sunday Telegraph: Promote the right values and prevent extremismhttp://www.upsi.org.uk/home/2011/6/8/sunday-telegraph-promote-the-right-values-and-prevent-extrem.htmlUPSI2011-06-08T07:08:14ZMore than eight years have passed since the Government first outlined its counter-terrorism strategy known as Contest. Its genesis was a dawning realisation that the threat of Islamist terrorism came not only from abroad but also from within. The suicide bomb attacks in London on July 7, 2005, by four men born or raised in this country confirmed the worst fears of the security authorities. Part of the response involved developing a strategy aimed at preventing the radicalisation of young Muslim men. To that end, millions of pounds have been spent on more than 1,200 projects of dubious merit around the country. They include sponsoring “safe debates” to discuss current affairs or grievances; encouraging women to take a more active role in the Muslim community; backing theatrical productions with extremism as a subject; and setting up boxing or football clubs for Muslims.

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