Mihi whakatau from Sergeant Wayne Panapa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Whātua

Welcome – 2021 ANZSEBP

Superintendent Dave Cowan, Victoria Police & ANZSEBP President, AUS

DCE Mark Evans OBE, ANZSEBP Vice President & Deputy Chief Executive of NZ Police, NZ

Whakatauaki

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Dr Shona Munro, NZ

Dr Elisa Orofino, UK

Apriel Jolliffe Simpson, NZ

Dr Anna Sutton, NZ

Sophie Curtis-Ham, NZ

Priya Devendran, AUS

Timothy Cubitt, AUS

Dr Alexander Plum, NZ

Policing as an Intellectual Profession

Professor Lum will argue that at the core of the evidence-based policing approach is the idea that policing should be treated as an intellectual profession.

Dr Cynthia Lum, USA
Dr Cynthia Lum is a professor of Criminology, Law and Society and director of George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. She is a leading authority on evidence-based policing, an approach that advocates that research, evaluation, and scientific processes should have “a seat at the table” in law enforcement policymaking and practice. She has studied and written extensively about patrol operations and police crime prevention activities, police technology, investigations and detective work, and evidence-based crime policy. Additionally, she has developed numerous tools and strategies to translate and institutionalize research into everyday law enforcement operations. For her efforts, she received the 2020 Virginia State Council for Higher Education Outstanding Faculty Award.

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Lumi Drug Scan: shining a light on drug detection

A six month trial from July 2020 to January 2021 of a handheld device that allows frontline officers to carry out on-the-spot screening of suspected drugs is now being considered for wider use in the NZ Police. To enable evidence-informed decision making, ESR and NZ Police collaborated on the design, development and evaluation of the Lumi Drug Scan Service. Lumi Drug scan combines a handheld near-infrared device with drug detection machine learning models in the cloud to allow seized samples to be screened and the analysis of the samples to be undertaken in real-time. A novel Lumi mobile app was developed to connect the device with the ML models, providing secure access for Police staff. The evaluation for the Lumi pilot was designed to be a ‘formative evaluation’ only. Essentially the Tactician device and the Lumi app had never been tested in this manner before – thus the evaluation focussed on product testing, fit for purpose, and user experience. This presentation will discuss the 6 key factors that made this pilot a success.

Simon Welsh (NZ), Sarah Czarnomski (NZ), Dion Sheppard (NZ)

Ensuring the implementation of evidence in policing: Implementation Science another force for change

Implementation science refers to the development of methods for successfully integrating research findings and evidence-based procedures into routine practice. The field places a strong emphasis on research evidence that shows what needs to be done to accelerate the uptake of evidence-based procedures and results in successful and sustainable implementation. Implementation science origins are in health care, due to the need to ensure that procedures and practices were effectively implemented. However, over time, the field has expanded into other fields, including policing. Using practical examples, this presentation will introduce implementation science, the benefits of its use and provide practical examples of efforts to do this in policing and criminal justice settings.

Dr Robyn Mildon, AUS
Robyn Mildon, PhD, is an internationally recognised figure in the field of implementation science, evidence synthesis and knowledge translation, and program and policy evaluations in health, education and human services. She is the Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI www.ceiglobal.org ), a global social purpose organisation whose work now spans across 8 countries. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, a Visiting Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Co-Director of the recently established Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI), National University of Singapore and Chair of the upcoming Evidence and Implementation Summit 2021 (www.eisummit.org).

Understanding Family Harm through the lens of the NZ Crime Harm Index

The project to Improve Our Understanding to Reduce Family Harm analysed the value of including a harm-based lens to better target, test and track interventions relating to family harm. The scope included a focus on police demand at an individual and location level, and from the perspective of crime as well as non-crime occurrences. Using the New Zealand Crime Harm Index alongside traditional volume-based analysis provides better insights to help prioritise resources to offenders perpetrating, and victims experiencing, the most harm.

Priya Devendran (AUS) and Renee Looc (NZ)

Katherine Danylak, Associate Professor Rachael Fullam, AUS

Paul Hart, AUS

Andrew Hurst, AUS

Policing “landscapes” for the rule of law and public protection: A review of the available evidence on organizational policies, structures, and human resources

Dr Peter Neyroud CBE QPM CCMI, UK
Dr Peter Neyroud is Director of the Senior Leader master’s degree Apprenticeship in Applied Criminology and Police Management and a Lecturer in Evidence-based policing in the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. In 2018 he completed a PhD at Cambridge which focused on the implementation of field experiments in policing. His research focuses on experimentation, police diversion of offenders, crime harm, police ethics, community policing, the impact of COVID 19 on policing and police leadership and management.

MC – Julian Wilcox (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa)

Keynote Speaker

Balancing Racial Inequity in Victimisations vs. Policing: The Cambridge RAD Index

Professor Lawrence Sherman, UK

Lawrence W. Sherman is Chief Executive of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing Ltd, a global online and in-person training and consultancy firm. As Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, he also serves as Director of the Cambridge University Police Executive Programme. Since beginning his career as an analyst in the New York City Police Department, he has designed or led experiments in over 50 police agencies on four continents, and trained over 2,000 police officers and analysts in evidence-based policing. A former President of the American Society of Criminology, he holds honorary degrees or medals from five universities. In 2010 he was elected Honorary President by the UK founders of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing, and continues to serve as a global champion of better research for better policing.

Join DCE Mark Evans OBE, Assistant Commissioner Bruce O’Brien and EBPC Director Simon Williams as they review the outcomes of the last 30 months.

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Join us as we present the 2021 Distinguished Police Scientist & Outstanding Police Experiment Awards

A candid and practical look at policing in the Pacific drawing on professional and academic expertise from the key coordination agencies working in this region.

Panel Includes: Ioane Alama (Samoa) and

Chaired by:

Te Pae Oranga Evaluation: assessing alternative resolutions in NZ

This study presents the approach and core lessons learnt following the evaluation of Te Pae Oranga programme. The TPO programme is a supported resolutions programme based on a Kaupapa Māori (indigenous paradigm) in New Zealand. The study asks How, if at all, did the uptake of formal written warnings by frontline officers affect the rate of referrals to the TPO programme in New Zealand?

Dr Femi Abikanlu PhD

Leading for Failure

Dr Victoria Herrington, Stuart Bartels APM, AUS

Recent research in new technologies in Deception Detection: The Promise and the Perils

Professor Robin Palmer, NZ

Appropriate Tactical Settings: The best available evidence on informing general arming of police

Following the shooting of Constable Matthew Hunt, New Zealand Police undertook research to understand how we could best keep our people safe, while also delivering a Police service New Zealanders expect and deserve. Using the best available data, evidence, and insight, we found that routine arming of Police could increase risks to public safety and the number of people shot, rather than improving the safety of Police and the public. We also found that offenders’ firearm use against Police does not appear to be influenced by whether Police are armed or unarmed. Finally, gaps were identified in our understanding of drivers for staff safety and reporting challenges.

Carrie Drake, NZ and Assistant Commissioner Bruce O’Brien (NZ)

Join us for a 30-minute discussion with Dr Gilbert on his presentation, facilitated by DCE Mark Evans OBE, Anthony Morgan and Detective Superintendent Greg Williams.

Dr Emma Ashcroft, Noeline Verheyen, Dr Melissa Smith, NZ

Scott Davidson, AUS

Emma Burns, NZ

Samantha Taaka, NZ

A/Professor Janet Stanley, AUS

Professor Maxwell Cameron, AUS

Dr Matthew Davies, Caitlin Spence, NZ

Mahinarangi Hakaraia,
Kaori Takenaka, NZ

facilitated by Dr Justin Ready and  Superintendent Dave Cowan.

Minister of Police, The Honourable Poto Williams

Commissioner Andrew Coster

MC – Julian Wilcox (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa)