2022 Program

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BST
11th Oct
AEDT
12th Oct
NZDT
12th Oct
1900-2000 0500-0600 0700-0800 Connect with industry peers through the Online Networking Hub and visit our valued sponsors & exhibitors in the Exhibition Lounge
BST
11th Oct
AEDT
12th Oct
NZDT
12th Oct
CONFERENCE OPENING PLENARY
2000-2015 0600-0615 0800-0815 Conference Welcome & Opening Address
Official Opening from 2022 Hosts Victoria Police and The Metropolitan Police
Superintendent Dave Cowan (AUS), Commander Alex Murray OBE (UK), Deputy Chief Executive R. Mark Evans OBE (NZ)
2015-2045 0615-0645 0815-0845 Opening Address
Evidence-based policing: lessons from the New Zealand COVID-19 response
Dr Ashley Bloomfield, NZ Director-General of Health 2019-2022
The use or non-use of evidence to inform public policy and practice was starkly highlighted during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Generally, jurisdictions that directly informed their responses with evidence had the best health outcomes, especially among vulnerable groups, in particular reducing the number of deaths, and protected their health systems and health care workers.The New Zealand response was directly informed by the best available, and frequently rapidly changing, evidence. This presentation will cover key lessons from the New Zealand response that highlight the challenges and opportunities for evidence-based policing, including:• Evidence is not ‘values free’
• The importance of being clear about the values that are informing the use of evidence and decisions
• Different types of evidence, e.g. both quantitative and qualitative evidence, are useful and it is important not to ‘privilege’ certain evidence
• Trust is fundamental to effective public policy and practice and the appropriate and consistent use of evidence is a powerful tool for building and maintaining trust
• Building trust requires clear, consistent and honest communication, including when things don’t go right or when the evidence changes
• Lessons for navigating the boundary between evidence, intelligence and politics
2045-2130 0645-0730 0845-0930 Panel Discussion
Challenging Traditional Thinking – EB in Policing
Stuart Bartels APM (Aus), Dr Robyn Mildon (Aus), Det Insp Mike Newman (Aus), Superintendent Dave Cowan (AUS), Rachel Tuffin OBE (UK), chaired by Stef Bradley (AUS)The final report of the Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales was released earlier in the year by the Police Foundation. Seen as a landmark report into the future of policing, the report proposes the most ambitious reform in a generation. Although based on evidence from England and Wales, the report offers police globally over 56 recommendations that relate to reforming culture, skills and training and organisational structure. The report says that policing needs to adopt a learning culture, so that police officers have better opportunities to develop professionally, so that professional standards are raised and so that the police can use the best evidence to achieve better outcomes for the public. One recommendation calls for evidence based policing units to be implemented across police services to support and create a culture of evidence and learning, but is this enough? The panel discuss this report, its recommendations relating to evidence based policing and the importance of evidence in challenging traditional thinking in the context of building and maintaining legitimacy in policing.
2130-2200 0730-0800 0930-1000 Keynote Presentation
Rapid response detects crime, and double crewing is more than twice as good
Prof Tom Kirchmaier (UK)Policing matters. What you do, and how you do it has a real impact on the outcome. For this, I report the results of two empirical papers, the first one studying the impact of Police response time on the likelihood of detecting a crime, and the second one of single vs. double crewing again on the likelihood of crime detection, and officer safety. In both cases we argue that better resourcing would pay for itself.
2200-2300 0800-0900 1000 – 1100 Panel Discussion
Excellence in Leadership
Deputy Chief Executive R. Mark Evans OBE (NZ), Inspector Natalie Hiltz (CAN), Dr Rick Muir (UK), chaired by Deputy Chief Constable Alex Murray OBE (UK)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.
2300-2315 0900-0915 1100-1115 Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton welcome on behalf of Victoria Police, Co-hosts of the Conference
BST
11th Oct
AEDT
12th Oct
NZDT
12th Oct
CONCURRENT SESSION ONE
2315-0000 0915-1000 1115-1200 Presentation
Trust and Confidence – Policing Legitimacy in UK and NZ
Dr Paul Dawson (UK), Kate Mora (NZ), Juliana Brown (NZ) 

Chaired Discussion
Leadership Training
Dr Renee J. Mitchell (US), Supt Andrew Mortimore (NZ), Dr Luann Pannell (US), Chaired by Dr Nessa Lynch (NZ),
BST
12th Oct
AEDT
12th Oct
NZDT
12th Oct
PLENARY SESSION
0000-
0100
1000-1100 1200-1300 Presentation & Discussion
Getting Off the Drawing Board: The Pitfalls of Implementing New Responses to Policing Problems
Prof Michael S Scott (US), Assoc Prof Justin Ready (Aus), Dr Lisa Tompson (NZ)
There are four basic reasons why a problem-oriented- or evidence-based-policing initiative might fail: 1) the problem was inaccurately identified; 2) the problem was insufficiently or inadequately analyzed; 3) the responses developed from the analysis were improperly or insufficiently implemented, or not implemented at all; or 4) the problem was properly identified and analyzed, and responses were implemented, but the responses did not have the desired effect. This session deals with the third of these four reasons: implementing responses to problems in problem-oriented and evidence-based policing initiatives. It addresses the reasons why the responses you plan to implement do or do not get properly implemented, and how you can better ensure that they do. There are factors to consider in four project stages: 1) the preimplementation stage; 2) the planning stage; 3) the implementation stage; and 4) the post-implementation learning stage.
BST
12th Oct
AEDT 12th Oct NZDT
12th Oct
CONCURRENT SESSION TWO
0100-0330 1100-1330 1300-1530 Excellence in fighting crime Excellence in Leadership Waikato University/
Excellence in Leadership
Policing Partners
0100-0115 1100-1115  1300- 1315 Insights into EBP Worldwide – From a practitioner and global perspective
Supt David Cowan (AUS)

Each presentation in this stream will be 20 minutes including Q&A

Sequencing events of child-to-parent family violence reported to police in Aotearoa New Zealand
Ms Bridget O’Keeffe (NZ),
Ms Apriel Jolliffe Simpson (NZ)

Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering and Understanding Stalking in Cases of Family Harm Reported to New Zealand Police
Miss Jordan Tomkins (NZ)

Te Pae Oranga Evaluation: 2019-2020
Mr Arden Tanner-Dempsey (NZ)

What does the evidence suggest about whether, how, and where, police bias manifests?
Dr Lisa Tompson (NZ)

Risk assessment and case management by the multi-agency Integrated Safety Response for family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
Apriel D. Jolliffe Simpson (NZ)

 
 

Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Why would we, could we, should we?
Suzanne Manning (NZ),  SallyAnn Harbison (NZ), Nathan Scudder (AUS), Alexandra Quinton (AUS), Michael Coble (USA)
0115-0130 1115-1130 1315-1330
0130-0145 1130-1145 1330-1345 Do patron bans affect subsequent behaviour? An examination of pre- and post-ban offending for barring notice and prohibition order recipients in Western Australia
Dr Clare Farmer (AUS),
Professor Peter Miller (AUS)
Dr Eva Tsahuridu (AUS), Ms Evie Belcher (AUS)
0145-0200 1145-1200 1345-1400 How long should a patron ban be? An examination of police-imposed barring notice policy in Western Australia
Dr Clare Farmer (AUS),
Professor Peter Miller (AUS)
0200-0215 1200-1215 1400-1415 Mapping Approach to Evaluation and Outcome Measures of Indigenous-focused Interventions: A case of Te Pae Oranga in New Zealand
Dr Femi Abikanlu (NZ)
Myths of non-routinely armed policing
Dr Ross Hendy (AUS)
Implementing the evidence base: why the ‘how’ really matters in policing.
Dr Karla Lopez (AUS)


0215-0230 1215-1230  1415-1430 Prompt Respondent Engagement Project (PREP) – A crime prevention initiative aimed at a reduction of domestic violence offences by actively engaging respondents.
Jesse Shaw (AUS),
Darren Green (AUS)
Dr Jenny Cartwright (AUS),
Dr Vicki Herrington (AUS)
0230-0245 1230-1245 1430-1445 Queensland Police Service (Ipswich District) Email to SMS warrant trial
Brett Collyer (AUS)
Building situated trust through “propinquitous policing”
Dr Nick Evans (AUS), Prof Nicole Asquith (AUS)
How data is changing policing
Loren Atherley, Scott Montgomery, Captain Jim Britt
0245-0300 1245-1300 1445-1500 The Embedded Youth Outreach Program at Victoria Police: a collaborative mobile response model
Katherine Danylak (AUS), Senior Sergeant Robbie Adams (AUS), Tracie Alborough (AUS), Dr Janet Ruffles (AUS)
How can we do better? Local knowledge to inform local intervention to reduce youth contact with the justice system.
Kay Lancefield (AUS), Mark Langhorn (AUS)
The Impact of Procedurally-Just Police Management and Leadership on Officer Resistance to New Technologies
Justin Ready (AUS)
0300-0315 1300-1315 1500-1515
0315-0330 1315-1330 1515-1530
BST
12th Oct
AEDT 12th Oct NZDT
12th Oct
PLENARY SESSION
0330-0430 1330-1430 1530-1630 Presentation
Implementing a Tactical Response and Officer Safety System in NZ
AC Bruce O’Brien (NZ), A/C Tusha Penny (NZ), Dr Jess Dent (NZ)The Tactical Response Model (TRM) is NZ Police’s response to increasing safety and feelings of safety amongst frontline whilst remaining a generally unarmed police service. We will discuss why we arrived at the TRM, what the TRM was designed to achieve and how we approached evaluating its impact in a proof-of-concept trial. We will include discussion of how an earlier evaluation of the Armed Response Trials contributed a critical evidence-base to inform improvements to implementation and evaluation of the TRM.
0430-0530 1430-1530 1630-1730 Panel Discussion
Every Contact Leaves a Trace – Procedural Justice in Action
Prof Lorraine Mazerolle (Aus), Dr Sarah Bennett (Aus), Darren Green (Aus), Chaired by Det Insp Mike Newman (Aus)This panel will explore the tenets and importance of procedural justice through the lens of practical applications of the theory. The contacts police have with the public can be short or long, they can be in-person or digital. One message remains the same – the use of appropriate communication strategies with that person or community is vital and procedural justice provides an evidence-based framework for this to occur. Every contact police have with the community leaves a trace and every contact is an opportunity to leave that person, that community, with a better impression of police and policing.
0530-0600 1530-1600 1730-1800 Keynote Presentation
Bad apples, barrels, orchards – how data science will tell you which
Dr Tim Cubitt (Aus)Despite a considerable body of research on police misconduct, findings have been mixed, with little consensus regarding its causes, and best practice for detection and prevention. Using data from three policing agencies, this presentation will explore emerging approaches to identifying both individual, and groups of officers that are at risk of committing serious misconduct. The utility of these methods, how they can realistically be introduced into practice, and how this research can contribute to misconduct detection and management approaches will be discussed.
0600-0700 1600-1700 1800-1900 Presentation
Sex offence training that really makes a difference. How EBP is essential in improving our service to victims
Dr Sarah Bennett (Aus), Detective Sergeant Katrina Carr (Aus)Every reported sexual offence deserves the very best evidenced policing response. The Queensland Police Service (QPS), Specialist Investigation Training Unit developed the comprehensive two-week Investigating Sexual Assault, Corroborating and Understanding Relationship Evidence (ISACURE) course. ISACURE targets three core themes: knowledge of sexual offending, victim-oriented practice, and evidence-based investigative skills. Through an EBP research partnership, the QPS and The University of Queensland tested how training impacted outcomes including arrests, withdrawals and officer wellbeing. Results demonstrate how EBP training and evaluation is improving service to survivors of sexual offences and where further research is needed.
0700-0800 1700-1800 1900-2000 Panel Discussion
Impact of Methamphetamine in the criminal environment
Sarah Helm (NZ), Anthony Morgan (Aus), DI Greg Williams (NZ), Dr Jarrod Gilbert (NZ), Chaired by
Deputy Chief Executive R. Mark Evans OBE (NZ) and Dr Jess Dent (NZ)
0800-0845 1800-1845 2000-2045 Panel Discussion
Biased Policing – Nothing about me without me
Dr Mike Rowe (UK), Tā Kim Workman (NZ), Insp Scott Gemmell (NZ), Helen Leahy (NZ), Chaired by Deputy Chief Constable Tyron Joyce (UK) 
0845 1845 2045
Police Minister Chris Hipkins – conference comments and handover to UK studio
BST
12th Oct
AEDT
12th Oct
NZDT
12th Oct
PLENARY SESSION
0900-0915 1900-1915 2100-2115 UK Conference Opening from The Oval
Welcome and Opening Address
0915-0945 1915-1945 2115-2145 Opening Address
Behavioural Science, leadership and the high-performance organisation.
Dr David Halpern
David Halpern will provide insights from behavioural science and evidence-based policymaking on how to create a high-performance organisation. This includes evidence-based leadership techniques, how incentives can actually impact people’s motivations, building trust internally and externally, improving organisational judgement, and driving effective internal improvements.
0945-1030 1945-2030 2145-2230 Panel Discussion
Focused Deterrence
Deputy Commissioner Alex Murray QPM (UK), Chief Superintendent Lee Hill (UK), Superintendent David Cowan (AUS), John Denley (UK), Dr Barak Arial (UK), chaired by Dr Justin Ready (AUS)During the focussed deterrence panel discussion, you will hear about 3 separate, yet linked, operational strategies where police used focused deterrence approaches to tackle public violence and knife crime. You will hear about how these strategies were implemented on the ground and the responses by officers and offenders. You will also hear results as to whether the strategy actually reduced crime. Please join us for this fascinating discussion.
1030-1100 2030-2100 2230-2300 Replay
Evidence-based policing: lessons from the New Zealand COVID-19 response
Dr Ashley Bloomfield, NZ Director-General of Health 2019-2022
The use or non-use of evidence to inform public policy and practice was starkly highlighted during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Generally, jurisdictions that directly informed their responses with evidence had the best health outcomes, especially among vulnerable groups, in particular reducing the number of deaths, and protected their health systems and health care workers.The New Zealand response was directly informed by the best available, and frequently rapidly changing, evidence. This presentation will cover key lessons from the New Zealand response that highlight the challenges and opportunities for evidence-based policing, including:
• Evidence is not ‘values free’
• The importance of being clear about the values that are informing the use of evidence and decisions
• Different types of evidence, e.g. both quantitative and qualitative evidence, are useful and it is important not to ‘privilege’ certain evidence
• Trust is fundamental to effective public policy and practice and the appropriate and consistent use of evidence is a powerful tool for building and maintaining trust
• Building trust requires clear, consistent and honest communication, including when things don’t go right or when the evidence changes
• Lessons for navigating the boundary between evidence, intelligence and politics
BREAK AT OVAL
1100-1130 2100-2130 2300-2330 Presentation
Police Use of Force
Insp Andreas Varotsis (UK)How can police data help us understand use of force encounters and escalation in London? This talk will discuss work undertaken by the Strategic Insight Unit, aggregating policing datasets to obtain a clearer understanding of how police use of force has changed over time, and what this can tell us about disproportionality and the drivers of escalation in London.
1130-1200 2130-2200 2330-0000 Presentation
Reducing Reoffending in Arrested Children (Guardian)
Supt Suzanne Hopper (UK)The aim of this research was to investigate whether a ‘Guardian Briefing’ can reduce the likelihood of a child previously taken into custody being rearrested. Specifically, we tested the impact of an in-custody video and survey, and post-custody communication, on the guardians of children that are taken into custody.
1200-1230 2200-2230 0000-0030 Presentation
The biggest hotspot RCT ever, Operation Avert
Dr Geoff Barnes (UK), Chief Insp Paul Trice (UK)This paper presents the surprising results from London’s Operation Avert, which is in all likelihood the single largest experimental trial of hot spot policing ever conducted. 228 high violence locations were randomly assigned to a number of different daily patrol conditions using crossover random assignment. With tens of thousands of location-days in the analysis, this study presents some challenging findings, especially in policing complex global cities.
1230-1300 2230-2300 0030-0100 Online Session
Diversion of offenders (Turning Point)
Katie Harber (UK)
LUNCH AT OVAL
1300-1330 2300-2330 0100-0130 Replay
Rapid response detects crime, and double crewing is more than twice as good
Prof Tom Kirchmaier (UK)
Policing matters. What you do, and how you do it has a real impact on the outcome. For this, I report the results of two empirical papers, the first one studying the impact of Police response time on the likelihood of detecting a crime, and the second one of single vs. double crewing again on the likelihood of crime detection, and officer safety. In both cases we argue that better resourcing would pay for itself.
1330-1415 2330-0015 0130-0215 Keynote Presentation
Just the right amount of policing, some MSt findings
Prof Larry Sherman (UK)
1415-1500 0015-0100 0215-0300 Presentation
Understanding trust and confidence – insights from London

Dr Emily Gilbert (UK), Colleen Brown (UK)

1500-1530 0100-0130 0300-0330 Presentation
Rapid Video Response (to domestic violence/ abuse calls for service) and telephone response (to non-DA calls)

Stacey Rothwell (UK), Kent Mcfadzien (UK)
Rapid Video Response and Rapid Telecommunication Response to Emergency Calls – Kent Police undertook two randomised control trials to test an immediate video or telephone response to calls for service. The talk will detail the methodology, the results and implementation of the new response option to calls for domestic abuse which has resulted in improved satisfaction for female victims of intimate violence, increased arrests and reduced delays .
BST
12th Oct
AEDT
12th/13th Oct
NZDT
13th Oct
CONCURRENT SESSION THREE
 
Excellence in Fighting Crime
(live from the Kia Oval, London)
Excellence in building trust & leading organisations Excellence in Fighting Crime MOPAC Stream
1530-1545 0130-0145 0330-0345 Coffee Break at Oval Perceptions of police officers regarding their involvement in work-related collisions
Prof Martin Lavallière (CAN)
Each presentation in this stream will be approx 20 minutes including Q&A

An introduction to MOPAC – reflections on applied policing policy research and oversight of the Police 

The role of the PCC/ Background to unit & moving from MPS to PCC/
reflections in the craft / influencing policy
Paul Dawson (UK)

Topic: Routine data, non-routine insights
Know your data and MOPAC role in insightful evidence based oversight
Mat Pickering (UK)

Strategic analysis on London priorities
Chloe Iliesa (UK)

The Application of Deep Coding Methodology to Routine Police Data
Barry Charleton (UK)

Topic: How Londoners influence policymaking
“We are London” results from a youth specific survey
Nicole Ramshaw (UK)

Topic: Individual to organisational evaluation
Evaluating ‘The Lighthouse’ – the largest CSE service in the world
Tim Read (UK)

Innovation in Evaluation – devising a novel quasi-experimental approach to understanding the impact of the London Gangs Matrix
Paul Dawson (UK)

Spreading the systematic learning from evaluations across the organisation
Lynne Conroy (UK)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1545-1600 0145-0200 0345-0400 The Toronto Neighbourhood Community Officer Program and Academic Collaboration
Dr Emma Smith (CAN),
Dr Doug Thomson (CAN)
1600-1615 0200-0215 0400-0415 Sir Mark Rowley (UK)
Commissioner Met Police
Data-Informed Community Engagement: The Newark Public Safety Collaborative
Dr Alejandro Gimenez Santana (USA),
Dr Joel Caplan (USA),
Dr Les Kennedy (USA)
1615-1630 0215-0230 0415-0430 Using Novel Pedagogies for Encouraging Police Engagement with Academic Research
Dr Laura Hammond (UK),
Jenny Richards (UK)
1630-1645 0230-0245 0430-0445 Victim Satisfaction
Emily Gilbert (UK), Jim McKee (UK)

Devon & Cornwall’s response to serious violence
Rebecca Inskip (UK)
Tweeting officers: A study of police officers who use Twitter
Constable Chris Birkett (CAN),
Dr Rylan Simpson (CAN)
1645-1700 0245-0300 0445-0500 Heuristics in De-escalation: Empirical Evidence on the Detrimental Impact of Cognitive Bias on Rapport-Building
Benni Zaiser (CAN)
From Paper to Pavement: Putting EBP into frontline Policing using Proactive Management Plans
Garry Bell, Bruce Clark 
1700-1715 0300-0315 0500-0515 Learning from London into Serious Youth Violence – insights into policy implications
Dr Paul Dawson (UK)

An examination into the most successful methods of preventing / reducing long term psychological harm to undercover police officers in the UK.
Ms Hannah Ashwell (UK)
1715-1730 0315-0330 0515-0530 Identifying challenges in evidencing the impact of police partnerships
Dr Jyoti Belur (UK)
A cost estimate of a proactive policing program in a medium-sized Canadian city
Constable Melanie Beard (CAN),
Adam Vaughn (CAN)

Using transmission data records in support of network-based target prioritization in drug distribution investigations

Daniel Connelly (CAN), Martin Bouchard (CAN)
1730-1745 0330-0345 0530-0545 An Introduction to the Met’s Strategic Insight Unit
Dr Liz Ward (UK)
Oval Conference Concludes.
10 Ways the science of psychology can assist policing
Jason Roach (UK)

Reassurance, victim care and confidence
Malcolm Hibberd (UK)
1745-1800 0345-0400 0545-0600
BST 12th Oct AEDT 13th Oct NZDT
13th Oct
PLENARY SESSION
1800-1845 0400-0445 0600-0645 Keynote Presentation
Can Police Advance Reform and Public Safety Simultaneously?: There is an answer
Prof David Weisburd (Israel/USA)Can police achieve the goals of reform and community safety simultaneously? I report on a large three city randomized field trial that shows they can. We tested whether police can be trained to treat people in fair and respectful ways, and if so, whether this would influence evaluations of the police and crime. The treatment led to significantly more procedurally just behavior by police; fewer arrests; and residents of the treatment hot spots significantly less likely to perceive police as harassing or using unnecessary force. At the same time, there was also a significant relative 14% decline in crime incidents.
1845-1915 0445-0515 0645-0715 Keynote Presentation
Why do evidence-based policing organizations need to be managed in an evidence-based way?
Prof Rob Briner (UK)The principles of evidence-based policing are slowly but surely influencing the practice of policing professionals. There are many barriers to evidence-based practice in any field. One potential barrier is the extent to which evidence-based practice oriented professionals and their organizations are managed in an evidence-based way. If management practices and processes are not particularly evidence-based and driven by, for example, management fads and fashions or the hunches of senior management teams, then it makes it difficult for those being managed in this way to stick to evidence-based practice principles in their work. This presentation will discuss the development of evidence-based practice in management, some of the challenges of adopting this approach, and how evidence-based practice principles can be spread across policing organizations from front-line policing to management decision-making.
1915-2000 0515-0600 0715-0800 Official Conference Close
Commissioner Andrew Coster (NZ), Superintendent Dave Cowan (AUS), Commander Alex Murray OBE (UK), Deputy Chief Executive R. Mark Evans OBE (NZ)

Thursday 13 October 2022

Te Pae, Christchurch | 9am to 3.30pm NZDT

Join New Zealand Police and their Evidence Based Policing Centre for the Solving complex problems in policing; how to reduce demand and have a long-lasting effect on community safety masterclass.  This will be facilitated by Dr Lisa Tompson.  Prof Gloria Laycock, Founding Director for the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London (UCL), will deliver a keynote address during the lunch period.

Register to attend here.

Commander Alex Murray OBE shares his programme highlights