SCCJR: Community Policing

The Edinburgh Police Research and Practice Group, a major output of this KE project, continues with its 2011 seminar and research workshop programme - see the flyers posted in the EPRPG section of the documents sidebar for details of the great speakers who have agreed to take part. We continue to cover core and classic themes, such as discrimination in stop and search policies, but are also pleased to capture emerging issues which are of highly contemporary and pressing policing and political relevance in Scotland. In the latest stream of sessions this is sectarianism, especially around sporting events in Scotland.

You'll have seen that there are two annual reports in the documents sidebar. Our three year project is coming to an end at the close of 2011, so our last annual report will be the concluding one to the funders, which we will publish here at a later date with the AHRC's permission. 

The team were in Stockholm in April at the invitation of the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention and the Stockholm County Police. The Stockholm police have been involved in the development of local policing offices and the piloting of teams of local police officers, in a programme which the National Council for Crime Prevention have been evaluating. We were fortunate to be able to spend several days with the evaluation team, in comparative discussion about the similarities and differences between the Swedish experience of 'local policing' and the Scottish experience of 'community policing'. The KE team gave a practical presentation on our project to the County police and also a more academic reflective paper to an audience of researchers from the National Council for Crime Prevention and academics from Swedish universities.