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25th March 2010

UPSI Release Briefing Note Highlighting Key Research Projects, Publications and Policy/Agenda Setting

UPSI provides an integrated model that develops and uses research evidence to improve the delivery of policing. Our work is directly shaping policy and practice at the national, regional and neighbourhood levels.

The UPSI model is based upon an innovative collaborative approach to research and training. At the University of Glamorgan, police probationer training is undertaken by a team of academic staff working directly alongside experienced police trainers. In conducting research, the team at Cardiff University are frequently engaged in direct collaborations with police officers. This helps to ensure that our findings and recommendations fully reflect the complexities of the realities of modern police work, whilst also being rigorously informed by robust methodological frameworks.

Download the full Briefing Note here

11th March 2010

UPSI's work for HMIC on Anti-Social Behaviour


Professor Martin Innes, who is the Director of the Universities' Police Science Institute (UPSI), has been commissioned by Her Majesty’s Chief Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to work alongside Ipsos MORI to develop a new framework to help police forces respond more effectively to acts of ASB.

The review will seek to integrate the best research on victims and ideas and how the police can develop a framework to operationalise the knowledge they collect on ASB.

Download the full article from HMIC's website: www.hmic.gov.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/PRC/PRC_ASB_20100311.pdf

4th March 2010

Professor Martin Innes quoted in Daily Telegraph article on Jon Venables Case


UPSI Director Professor Martin Innes joins the debate over protection of new identities for criminals which has been sparked by the recent Jon Venables case.

"Professor Martin Innes, director of the Universities Police Science Institute at Cardiff University, said the Venables case – the first time there has been a recall by someone under such an order – is "pivotal" and means a review over how they work is now needed."

The full news story can be read here

16th April 2009

Professor Martin Innes and Sergeant Sarah Tucker contribute Executive Feature for Police Professional Magazine




UPSI director, Professor Martin Innes and UPSI PhD student Sergeant Sarah Tucker contributed the Executive Feature for a recent Police Professional Magazine. In the article they discuss how to best embed evidence-based policing to ensure that its merits are realised. The article is available for download from the UPSI website

16th April 2009

UPSI's work on Policing business communities in the news




UPSI's work in partnership with London First, the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police Service is featured on the front page of the Financial times today (16 April 2009). The full news story can be read here (FREE registration required to read the full story).

3rd April 2009

UPSI working in partnership with London First, the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police Service


UPSI are working in partnership with London First, the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police Service to better understand what factors contribute to insecurity within commercial communities across London. The innovative collaboration between the police and the business community partners has provided close links with businesses upon which the outcomes of the research will have direct impact. The research is joint funded by the NPIA and leading businesses in London such as BT, Lloyds of London, Team London Bridge, UBS, and the London Investment Banking Agency.

26th March 2009

UPSI host ESRC Public Policy Seminar on “Can and Should the Police Solve More Crime?"


On 11th March, a large number of delegates descended on City Hall, Cardiff to participate in a public policy seminar jointly hosted by Universities’ Police Science Institute, ESRC, The Police Foundation and The Scottish Institute for Policing Research. The subject for discussion was; “Can and Should the Police Solve More Crime?". Much lively debate ensued and a worthwhile day was had by all attendees.

The event was part of a seminar series that aims to bring the best social science concepts and evidence into the policy arena and stimulate a discussion of how in the light of these insights, policy can be developed. The seminar goals are to encourage evidence-based policy through an exchange between researchers and policy-makers. More can be found at the ESRC website

16th December 2008

UPSI externally funded research passes £1million


UPSI has confirmed its status as a leading international centre for the study of policing ,announcing today that in its first 18 months it has secured in excess of £1 million of external research funding. Working with partners in Australia, the Netherlands, and England and Wales, the UPSI's reputation for innovative and leading-edge research has already had a significant impact on policing policy and practice. Particularly notable are the following successes:

- The community engagement model developed by UPSI to help deliver reassurance and neighbourhood security is now being used internationally. Thss building upon the team's previous work as the intellectual architects of Neighbourhood Policing in England and Wales;
- Research into the causes and consequences of violent radicalisation has been a significant influence upon recent reforms to the UK government's 'prevent' strategy.

In 2009, in partnership with colleagues at the Universities of Cardiff and Glamorgan the Institute will host the British Society of Criminology's annual conference.

1st November 2008

British Society of Criminology Conference 2009


The Universities’ Police Science Institute, the Centre for Criminology at the University of Glamorgan and the Crime and Justice Research Group at Cardiff University have been successful in their collaborative bid to host the British Society of Criminology Conference 2009. The title of the conference is “A Mirror or a Motor? What is Criminology For?” The conference will be held at City Hall from 29th June to 1st July 2009.

The conference website contains more details of this exiciting event - click here to visit the conference website

27th August 2008

UPSI partnership with Australian Police


UPSI is working with Victoria Police in Australia to identify the signal crimes and signal disorders that are driving insecurities across different neighbourhoods in the City of Melbourne. Utilising an innovative community intelligence methodology developed by UPSI the project will help Victoria Police to engage more effectively with communities and citizens.

26th August 2008

"Countering Terror: Violent Radicalisation and Situational Intelligence" - UPSI journal article published in Prison Service Journal


Morphing and adapting as it is, the terrorist threat to the UK has come to assume a number of different threat configurations. Appreciating the differences and the distinctiveness of particular permutations of the threat is vital if the UK counter-terrorism apparatus is to be effective in its response. In this article we describe some of the principal ways in which counter-terrorism strategy has sought to adapt in order to respond to the new threat configurations that have emerged. Developing our argument in light of these insights, we go on to suggest a new concept of ‘situational intelligence' as part of the different approach required if the authorities are to effectively get ‘up-stream' of the problem so as to inhibit and interdict processes of violent radicalisation.

Download the whole article here

22nd June 2008

Universities' Police Science Institute (UPSI) research article feature in Sunday Telegraph


A research team led by Prof Martin Innes recently issue a report to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) entitled; 'Hearts and Minds and Eyes and Ears: Reducing Radicalisation Risks Through Reassurance Policing'. The report was commissioned by ACPO after last year's failed bomb attacks in London's West End and at Glasgow Airport. It is to be discussed at ACPO's annual conference and had recieved national media coverage.

Read the whole article here

3rd March 2008

Universities' Police Science Institute (UPSI) launches major project in Cardiff


The Universities’ Police Science Institute and South Wales Police have launched the Signal events, Neighbourhood security, Order and Reassurance (SENSOR) project in Cardiff. The SENSOR project is an innovative, large scale project, focused on developing new community engagement and policing methods in the city of Cardiff. The project will provide a systematic methodology for community engagement, whilst identifying the key drivers of insecurity across the different communities and neighbourhoods of Cardiff.

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