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Deputy Chief Constable, West MerciaAlex has worked in the CID, Counter terrorism and local policing. He is a firearms, CT and public order commander. In West Midlands Police he was temporary ACC for Crime prior to becoming Commander (Specialist Crime) in the Met (trafficking, online child abuse, flying squad, economic crime, cyber crime, major crime). He also assisted with leading in the areas of COVID and diversity. Just prior to moving to West Mercia he was the Chief Officer lead for violence in London. In 2008 graduated from Cambridge University with a thesis developing the understanding of police legitimacy within Muslim communities. He is the founder of the Society of Evidence Based Policing and has conducted RCT’s, many with a focus on behavioural science. He has worked on police training programmes in India, Cambodia and Europe. In 2014 he received the Superintendents award for Excellence in Policing and has been recognised by George Mason University’s Centre for Evidence Based Policing. He is a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and in 2017 he was awarded an OBE. In 2019 he was also the SRO for the spending review submission to the Home Office |
Panel Discussion: Excellence in Leadership
With senior thinkers and police leaders we will explore a number of areas:
How do you lead in a way that uses the best evidence?
How do you get organisations to understand what is effective, to commission effectively and to evaluate interventions effectively.
We are also exploring what the evidence says about good leadership – not from the multitude of airport best sellers, but from well researched evidence based insights.
This session will benefit anyone who is interested in what the evidence says about good leadership and how as a leader to embrace evidence based practices.
Dr Rick Muir will also delve into a recent strategic review of policing – drawing on the importance of evidence based policing for future leadership.