Plenary Speaker

Milan Orgad1 1Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) This session will discuss the development of the ANZPAA Cross-jurisdictional Research Priorities. This was as a result of the Police Research Workshop session at the ANZPAA Police Conference 2019. The Research...

Inspector Mike Newman1 1Assistant Regional Crime Coordinator, Queensland Police Service The Queensland Police Service provides investigations training to officers through the Detective Training Program (DTP) run by facilitators from the Detective & Specialist Investigations Training Section (DSITS) as part of...

Professor Lorraine Mazerolle1 1School of Social Science, University of Queensland Australian drug policy costs more than AUD$1 billion each year, including police services, judicial resources, legal expenses, corrective services, Australian Federal Police, Australian Customs, and Border Force. Nearly two thirds...

Prof Gloria Laycock1 1Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London (UCL) Suggesting ‘new’ ways to police are a feature of modern policing. EBP is one of the latest. In this presentation some of the similarities between EBP, problem...

Mr Simon Williams M.St (Cantab)1 1Manager, New Zealand Police Service  Hot spots policing strategies have been tested the world over, resulting in a strong body of evidence to support the adoption of police targeting places which suffer from concentrated levels...

Superintendent Bruce O’Brien Director: Evidence Based Policing, Evidence Based Policing Centre, New Zealand Police For New Zealand Police, Evidence Based Policing is about testing how effective our actions, approaches and strategies are, researching emerging issues or trends, to develop new ways...

Anthony Morgan, Christopher Dowling and Isabella Voce Australian Institute of Criminology Evidence-based policing largely has its origins in targeting, testing and tracking responses to volume crimes. But law enforcement, both at the commonwealth and state and territory level, are increasingly...

David Cowan Superintendent, Victoria Police Over 10 years since 2007/8, the combined number of adult and child offenders being diverted by police and courts has reduced from 22,098 cases to 18,165 cases. Over the same period, the rate of police...

Geoffrey C. Barnes, Ph.D. Director of Criminology, Capability and Coordination Portfolio, Western Australia Police Force; Vice President, Australia & New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing Advanced statistical techniques are getting better with every passing month, and can be enormously accurate in predicting...

Dr Sarah Bennett Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Queensland Sexual assault has profound and long lasting consequences for victims and impacts their life in far reaching and complex ways. The manner in which police respond to sexual...