Inspector Natalie Hiltz

Natalie is in her 27th year having worked in Intelligence Services, Technological Support Section as well as the Duty Inspectors Office leading uniform operational deployments and incident command during critical incidents. She recently joined the Community Safety and Well- Being Section responsible for Community and Divisional Mobilization, Mental Health and Addiction as well as Diversity Equity and Inclusion.

Natalie is a recent MSt. Graduate from Cambridge University’s Police Executive Program. Her thesis and published work explores the victim-offender overlap in violent crime as an opportunity for police targeting, forecasting and prevention. This work has downloaded on Research Gate over 2,971 times, with 194 reads from the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, Russia, New Zealand, Vietnam, South Africa, United States, and Canada. Natalie was formerly part of the executive and advisory boards for the Canadian Society of Evidence Based Policing and is currently working on projects aimed at operationalizing the concept of harm within Peel Region. In 2021 and 2022, she was instrumental in organizing the first Evidence Based Policing conferences in Canada in partnership with the Ontario Chiefs of Police, The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police and the Cambridge Centre for Evidence Based Policing. She has been nominated for the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Award, Civil Division for her work in Evidence Based Policing in Canada.

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.