2024 Program

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Monday 2 September 2024

0730 – 1800 Registration | Level 37
0830 – 0900 Opening Session
Room Plenary, Level 37, Rm 11- 13
Session Chairs Detective Superintendent David Cowan, Victoria Police
0830 – 0840 Welcome & Housekeeping
Detective Superintendent David Cowan, Victoria Police & Mark Evans OBE, NZ Police
0840-0845 Acknowledgement to Country
Inspector Jim Lappin
0845 – 0850 Te Reo Māori reply to the Acknowledgement to Country
Superintendent Scott Gemmell, NZ Police
0850 – 0900 Opening
Chief Commissioner Shane Patton APM, Victoria Police
0900 – 1045 Session Two
Room Plenary, Level 37, Rm 11- 13
Session Chairs Detective Superintendent David Cowan, Victoria Police and Mark Evans OBE, NZ Police
0900-1000 What works in creating what works?
Professor David Kennedy, Jon Jay College of Criminal Justice
1000-1045 EBP in an operational environment – Targeting, testing and tracking … and trials and tribulations. The what and how of EBP.
Chief Constable Alex Murray OBE
1045 – 1115 Morning Tea
1115 – 1245 Session Three
Room Plenary, Level 37, Rm 11- 13
Session Chair Mark Evans & Stefanie Bradley
1115-1135 The Artificial Intelligence Law Enforcement and Community Safety Laboratory (AiLECS)– A Monash University Australian Federal Police (AFP) joint research centre.
Campbell Wilson
1135 – 1215 Panel discussion facilitated by Mark Evans OBE, NZ Police
Artificial Intelligence in Policing – a global policing perspective of AI in Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA
Detective Senior Sergeant Sam Bremner, Chief Jason Potts , Chief Constable Alex Murray & Claire McGuinness
1215 – 1245

Data informed decision making – Victoria Police use of SAS Neo data analytics
Senior Sergeant Scott Tomlinson Victoria Police &  Sergeant Francis Olle, Victoria Police
1245-1330 Lunch
1330-1500 Session Four
Room Level 37, Rm 11- 12  Level 37, Rm 13 
Session Chair Simon Williams Mark Langhorn
1330 – 1345 More Than Meets The Eye
Caleb Boxx & Laura Bailey
“It’s not active talking, it’s active listening”: Police negotiator training for de-escalating crisis situations
Matthew Morgan & Clive Harfield
1348 -1403 Evaluation of the ACT Restorative Justice Scheme for family and domestic violence and sexual violence offences
Dr Siobhan Lawler
Grievances and conspiracy theories as motivations for anti-authority protest: Findings from interviews with protesters
Dr Timothy Cubitt
1406 – 1421 Using a Simplified Bail Notice to Reduce Fail to Appear Rates
Dr Alex Gyani
Participation in anti-authority protests, vulnerability to radicalisation and implications for protest policing
Anthony Morgan
1424 – 1439 The EMPOWER Wellbeing Program for police: Addressing the connection between organisational and operational job demands and psychological harm
Dr Jacqueline Drew
Modelling demand with the Victoria Police Staff Allocation Model: lessons learned
Dr Michael Smith
1442 – 1457 Combatting Compassion Fatigue: Evidence-Based Strategies for Police Officer Well-Being
Peter Romanis
Strands in a Cable: Using Forensic Evidence to Investigate Volume Crime Effectively in the Australian Context
Dr Cheryl Brown
1500 – 1530 Afternoon Tea
1530 – 1700 Session Five
Room Plenary, Level 37, Rm 11- 13
Session Chairs Stefanie Bradley
1530 – 1550 Understanding Police Officers’ Memory of Stressful Events: Exploring the Effects of Interview Timing and Body-worn Camera Video
Associate Professor Justin Ready
1550 – 1630 Operationalizing and implementing evidence-based policing (EBP) to modernize law enforcement practices and enhance effectiveness.
Chief Jason Potts,  City Las Vegas, USA
1630 – 1700 Launch of the Police Led Global Collaboration for evidence-based policing
Detective Superintendent David Cowan, Australia, Chief Constable Alex Murray OBE, UK, Chief Jason Potts,  City Las Vegas, USA, Mark Evans OBE, NZ, Lieutenant Ruben Boomsma, Netherlands, Chief Rich Johnston, Canada
1700 – 1830

Welcome Reception
Level 37, KPMG

Tuesday 3 September 2024

0730 – 1630 Registration | Level 37
0830 – 1000 Opening Session
Room Plenary, Level 37, Rm 11- 13
Session Chair Superintendent Mark Langhorn, Victoria Police
0830 – 0840 Welcome & Opening
Commander Raegan Stewart,  Australian Federal Police
0840-0905 Evidence Based Policing: A global investigation. A nice to have or an inevitable shift in policing?
Detective Superintendent David Cowan, Victoria Police
0905-0915 Launch of the Global Policing Database (GPD)
Maureen Q. McGough, University of South Carolina School of Law
0915-1000 Gender Diversity  and the 30 x 30 project. A US perspective on advancing gender diversity in policing
Maureen Q. McGough, University of South Carolina School of Law
1000-1030 Morning Tea
1030-1200 Session Two
Room Plenary, Level 37, Rm 11- 13
Session Chair Simon Williams
1030-1115 Black Swans – Analysing Right Wing Mass Killing Events
Professor Peter Martin APM, Griffith University Qld
1115 – 1130 Barrie Police Service EBP Projects
Chief Rich Johnston, Canada
1130 – 1200 Independent Review into Productivity in Policing and Recommendations on how to Improve it.  Commissioned by UK Home Office
Superintendent Suzanne Hopper, Metropolitan Police London
1200 – 1230

Panel discussion facilitated by Mark Evans OBE, NZ Police
Reframing ORC: Leveraging Technology to Address Growing Challenges
Julian Coram, Brett Kahan, Stefan Collins
1230 – 1315 Lunch
1315  – 14 Session Three
Room Level 37, Rm 11- 12 Level 37, Rm 13 
Session Chairs Anthony Morgan Tony Alderman
1315-1330 Frontline Forensics – An evidence based practice model to improve prevention, disruption and crime solvability
Lisa Weller & Josh White
Benefits & challenges of recruiting officers with international policing experience: impact of the Queensland Police Service international recruitment strategy.
Rebecca Gollschewski
1333 -1348 “You’re Gonna Have to Shoot Me, Mate”: A Collective Case Study Analysis Examining Victim-Precipitated Homicide and Policing Sieges
Rebecca Keane
Internal sexual harassment among police personnel: Insights from a Birmingham, UK cross-sectional survey
Lali Magsi
1401 – 1416 Identifying Operational Efficiencies: Exploring the relationship between Random Breath Tests (RBT) and Crime
Darren Green
Workplace Culture Change in the Queensland Police Service: Lessons from the Workplace Assessment and Support Team
Michael McGarry
1420 – 1435 Afternoon Tea
1435 – 1640 Session Four – Health & Wellbeing 
Room Plenary, Level 37, Rm 11- 13
Session Chair Detective Superintendent David Cowan
1435 – 1440

Welcome
Anthony De Fazio, CEO, BankVic
1440-1525 Mitigating the Effects of Fatigue: Evidence to Date
Dr Stephen James, Washington State University
1525-1545 Beyond the experience of trauma in explaining the psychological health of police cohorts: The role of occupational stressors, embitterment and psychological contract breach
Dr Jacqueline Drew, Griffith Criminology Institute
1545 – 1630 Implicit Bias: Origins, Impacts, and Strategies for Mitigation
Dr Lois James, Washington State University
1630 – 1635 Closing Address
Thank you and introduction to symposia
Detective Superintendent David Cowan, Victoria Police, President ANZSEBP & Mark Evans, Vice President ANZSEBP
1730 for 1800 sharp Conference Dinner
Long Room, Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)

Pre-recorded Short Shots

Rapid Video Response to Domestic Violence and Blueprint for Innovation, Eastern Region Innovation Network UK
Stacey Rothwell, 7 Force Network Director, UK
Domestic violence Early Intervention Project (DEIP): Using nudges as an early engagement and DFV prevention strategy
Mr Gerard Moore, Mr Simon Guildford & Mr Darren Green
Unveiling the Patterns: Longitudinal Analysis of Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Spaces in the London Borough of Sutton
Mr Abu Ullah
Taking A Problem-Solving Approach To Chronic Vehicle Crime At An Auckland Hospital Carpark
 Sergeant Damon O’ShaughnessySergeant Brian Williamson
Community Policing in Toronto: An Examination of Internal Obstacles
Dr Emma Smith & Professor Doug Thomson
Addressing anomie:  implementing an evidence-based, problem-oriented policing response at a New Zealand social housing complex
Sergeant Ross Donaldson & Dr Claire Phipps
From trash to treasure: the effect of bin days on residential burglary risk
Natasha Henschke & Timothy Mashford
Exploring police operational and organisational stressors
Detective Senior Sergeant Miro Majstorovic