De Montfort UniversityResearch

Supporting Your Organisation in Practical Ways

‘What Works’

History of Evidence Based Teaching & ResearchAssociated with the Law

The Maintenance of Order & Justice

The Development & Training of Front Line Staff,

Managers & Scientistsin The Police Service

Training in the Law & Offender Management

Social Work , Youth Work, Nursing, Psychology, Computer Technology

Research Embedded in Police Programmes

Year 1 Research, Diversity, Equality

Year 2 Researching Contemporary

PolicingYear 3 Dissertation

(Service Projects and COP Projects)

Progression into Post Graduate Research

PhD MPhil

Professional Doctorate

Multi Agency Working The Mental

HealthTriage Car

The Support Needs of Families of Missing

People

Hate Crime

Perceptions of Special Measures

The Police use of Social Media

The Impact of Police/Community

Meetings

Age related Stop and Search Processes and Youth Support

Examples of Police Officer

Practice Based

Research

Examples of Police Manager Practice Based

Research

Honour Based

ViolenceWitness Protection-

Gypsy Traveller Groups

Operation Comfort – multi agency cooperation

Custody Procedures

Evidence will be translated into practical insights that the police service and their partners can easily use

Guidance will be clear, helping decision makers access and apply the evidence locally to make choices about where to spend and save

• Standoff detection of technologies for radiological threats (NATO special studies group – NIAG SG112)

The Management of Complex Systems in Policing

• Reforming the force: An examination of the impact of the operational sub-culture on reform and modernisation within the police service

Evaluation of the crash course: Report to Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service.

• National police training : study of technology in the support of learning

Making sense of invulnerability: A qualitative study of police drivers

Security for Mobile Grid Systems

Engaging with the Night Time Economy Community: Finding Ways to Enhance Violence Reduction Across Leicester City

Software enhancement of

tool marks

Policing Gypsies and Travellers

Protect II, Capacity Building in Risk Assessment and Safety Management for Victims at a High risk of Harm from

domestic violence

Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements in England and

Wales; review of risk assessment tools and MAPPA arrangements in

Scotland; evaluation of the Sex Offender Public Disclosure Pilots in

England

Policing experiences and perceptions of new

communities in Britain.

An Exploration of Disproportionality in Stop

and Search for Leicestershire Constabulary

SATIN project sequential lifting and visualisation of scene

mark and traces

Identification of counterfeit drugs

using SEM-EDX/LC-MS-MS/FTIR-ATR

Soft skills for hard work: an exploration of the efficacy of the emotional literacy of practitioners

working within the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) with

high risk offenders

Sharing knowledge about ‘What Work’s’ with the public will help build confidence in the police service and their crime reduction partners

Counterfeit medicines

Policing Dyslexia

Place, Social Situation and Burglary in Nottinghamshire

Resolution through devolution:

Policing, youth justice and

imprisonment

Working with young people in the UK:

Considerations of race, religion & globalisation

ID of Drugs in Blood Spots

International policing reform and

organisational development: Royal St

Lucia Police Force

Computational Intelligence & the use of Fuzzy Logic to retrieve incomplete datasetsW(h)ither the PCSO?:

Police perceptions of the Police Community

Support Officer's role, powers and future

directions

Links will be strengthened between the police service, crime

reduction partners and the academic sector

What influences the relationship between

policy and practice within the police

service? How is policy

interpreted, adapted and operationalized

by practitioners when delivering service?

Does plural suit rural?

Reflections on quasi-policing in the countryside

Nursing care for detainee in

police stations: A qualitative

study 

Police Strategic Leadership and Management of Major Sporting

Events

Digital watermarking and

novel security devices

Improving Operational Threat

and Risk Management, Leicestershire

Police

Evaluation of Restorative

Approaches Project in Children’s Care

Homes

Service provision for

detainees with problematic

drug and alcohol use in

police detention: A comparative

study of selected

countries in the European

Union.

Evidence will be provided on the most effective approaches that can help prevent

crime

What does this mean for your organisation?

Performance & Service Delivery

MattersAudit and Evaluation Crime

Prevention/ Reduction

Assessment & Implementation

Partnerships & Interoperability

Risk Contingency

Planning

Strategic Planning &

Coordination

Personnel selection &

development

Equal Opportunities &

Diversity

Science & Technology -

Impact & Adaptation

Community Impact &

Evaluation

Quantitative & Qualitative Research & Evaluation

Applied Research Social, Management, Technological & Physical Sciences

Flexible, Adaptive, Evidence/Practice Based Research which Provides Best Value & is

‘Fit For Purpose’

East Midlands Policing Consortium

Ethics & Values

Personal & Public Safety

Information Management

Community Engagement & Crime Prevention

Forensics & Evidence Gathering

Public Protection

Intelligence & Counter Terrorism

Crime & Investigation

Planned Operations & Emergency Procedures

Leadership & Strategic Command Evidence will be provided on the

most effective approaches that can help prevent crime

Evidence will be translated into practical insights that the police service and their partners can easily use Guidance will be clear, helping decision

makers access and apply the evidence locally to make choices about where to spend and save

Sharing knowledge about ‘What Work’s’ with the public will help build confidence in the police service and their crime reduction partners Links will be strengthened between the police

service, crime reduction partners and the academic sector

Contact

De Montfort UniversityThe GatewayLeicesterLE19BH

Head of Research CCJ: Jean Hine jhine@dmu.ac.ukHead of Division CCJ: Lisa Hackett lhackett@dmu.ac.uk

School of Applied Social SciencesT: + 44(0)116 257 7705E: sass@dmu.ac.ukW: dmu.ac.uk