https://www.aipm.gov.au/ed-2020-wrap
This time last year, in this newsletter, I wrote “ it’s been a big year for the AIPM”. Little did I know at that point what lay ahead and what a “big year” really was. Of course as you read this we are coming to the end of an extraordinary 2020, one that has tested our policing and public safety agencies in ways not thought possible.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/podcasts-policing-leadership
The AFP librarians have collated the best podcasts in leadership and policing as recommended from our colleagues
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-negotiation
Police should prioritise negotiation over routine force to win back trust
AIPM Global Professor Mike Hough | The Conversation
https://www.aipm.gov.au/covid-engage-communities
How Covid-19 should transform the way police engage with their local communities
Steve Norris | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-stress-health
Stress and Health in the Police: A Conceptual Framework
Daniela Gutschmidt and Antonio Vera | Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/crime-coronavirus
Crime and coronavirus: social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime
Eric Halford, Anthony Dixon, Graham Farrell, Nicolas Malleson & Nick Tilley | Crime Science
https://www.aipm.gov.au/ebp-45-bytes
Evidence-Based Policing in 45 Small Bytes
Previous AIPM Presenter Gary Cordner | National Institute of Justice
Introduction
https://www.aipm.gov.au/policing-and-twitter
“Show this thread”: policing, disruption and mobilisation through Twitter.
An analysis of UK law enforcement tweeting practices during the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.aipm.gov.au/covid-criminal-justice-system
Covid and the criminal justice system: A record criminal case backlog and reliance on police-run remote hearings
Alison Hernandez | The Daily Police
https://www.aipm.gov.au/exercising-leadership
Exercising leadership
Andy Combes, AIPM Director - Senior Executive Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
https://www.aipm.gov.au/policing-aboriginal-literature
The Lives Behind the Statistics: Policing Practices in Aboriginal Literature
Crystal McKinnon | Australian Feminist Law Journal
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/aipm-ed-2020
The Australian and New Zealand Police Commissioners, who make up the Board of the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM), have appointed Stuart Bartels APM as Executive Director of the AIPM.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-promotion
Navigating the police promotion system: a comparison by gender of moving up the ranks
Jacqueline M. Drew and Jason Saunders | Police Practice and Research
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-resilience
Australia/New Zealand Police Leadership & Resilience
Police Resilience Symposium
Panelists:
Wendy Steendam, APM
Deputy Commissioner Specialist Operations, Victoria Police
https://www.aipm.gov.au/policing-vulnerable-people
Policing Vulnerable People
Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron and Dr Nicole L. Asquith | Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies
Introduction
https://www.aipm.gov.au/self-care-police
Put Your Mask on First - Prioritizing Self Care for Law Enforcement Executives
Chief Debora Black | Police Foundation
https://www.aipm.gov.au/covid-public-trust-police
Enforcing COVID-19 restrictions could erode public trust in police
Dr John Coyne | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/rapidly-changing-crisis
To the edge and beyond: How fast-response organizations adapt in rapidly changing crisis situations
Jan Kees Schakel and Jeroen Wolbers | Sage Journals
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/victorias-police-powers
Expanding Victoria’s police powers without robust, independent oversight is a dangerous idea
Jude McCulloch | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-best-practice
Effective communication during major crises: a systematic literature review to identify best practices for police
Kelly A. Hine and Adelaide Bragias | Police Practice and Research
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/jigsaw-approach-leadership-management
Completing the puzzle: The jigsaw approach to leadership and management
Stephen Lenney | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/melbourne-surveillance-law
Melbourne is using pop-up police spy stations to find people breaking COVID rules – what does the law say?
AIPM Global Professor Rick Sarre | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/women-policing-asean
Women in Law Enforcement in the ASEAN Region
UN Women
https://www.aipm.gov.au/institutionalised-fatigue-policing
‘Institutionalised’ fatigue to be tackled by National Police Wellbeing Service
Tina Orr Munro | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/reimagining-police-culture
Us and them: reimagining police culture
Susan Muldowney | Australian HR Institute
"Police culture is at the heart of a controversy that is rocking the world. What does it take to transform it?
https://www.aipm.gov.au/women-police-stations
Women police stations: have they fulfilled their promise?
Mangai Natarajan & Dhanya Babu | Police Practice and Research
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/blue-code-of-silence
Police ethics and integrity: Keeping the ‘blue code’ of silence
Louise Westmarland & Steve Conway | International Journal of Police Science & Management
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/do-police-need-guns
Do Police need guns? The nexus between routinely armed police and safety
Clare Farmer & Richard Evans | The International Journal of Human Rights
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/how-police-leaders-lead
How Police Leaders Learn to Lead
Cathrine Filstad, Tom Karp, Rune Glomseth | Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/reasons-barriers-police-careers
Reasons and barriers for choosing police careers
Sayer-Jane Vermeer, Ben Stickle, Mark Frame, Michael Hein | Policing: An International Journal
Abstract
Purpose
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-organisational-change
Police supervisor attitudes toward organizational change
Joseph A. Schafer, Sean P. Varano, Phillip M. Galli and Teri Ford | Journal of Crime and Justice
https://www.aipm.gov.au/policing-pandemics-pacific
Policing and pandemics
Nick Thomson | Asia & the Pacific Policy Society
Nick Thomson looks at how to unlock the public health partnership potential for Pacific policing services.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/covid-rural-policing
Rural Victimization and Policing during the COVID-19 Pandemic
J. Andrew Hansen & Gabrielle L. Lory | American Journal of Criminal Justice
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/leaders-adaptive-challenges
In fast-changing times, good leaders must understand adaptive challenges
Toby Lindsay | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-drones
Public safety or invasion of privacy? COVID-19 and the police use of drones
Andrew Staniforth | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/chiefs-role-preventing-suicide
Let’s stop officers from ever getting to the point that they consider suicide as an option.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/recruitment-women-australian-policing
This paper reviews developments in gender equity-oriented recruitment policies in Australian policing between 2015 and 2019.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-use-deadly-force
Using a randomized controlled experiment that incorporated a police firearms simulator and 306 active law enforcement officers, this study examined the effects of dispatch priming on an officer’s decision to use deadly force.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/coronavirus-frontline-innovation
Police organizations play key roles in enforcing lockdowns and educating citizens on a massive and unplanned-for scale, while avoiding that criminals exploit the current state of affairs. In doing so, many will be dealing with a number of shortages.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/lived-experience-police-leadership-development
The Lived Experience of Police Leadership Development: A Phenomenological Study
James J. Sheets
“I think on the job is where it really develops.
You put into practice where you learn through
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-degrees
As researchers who specialise in crime and punishment, we see five reasons why police officers should be encouraged to pursue a college degree.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/leadership-asymmetries
Leaders both expect and experience more responsibility than control; more blame than praise; and interpretations of failure – both their own and others’ – based more on personal fault than on situational or task complexity.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pandemic-policing
Policing Social Distancing: Gaining and Maintaining Compliance in the Age of Coronavirus
Sara Grace | Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pandemic-counter-terrorism
The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for all sectors of policing. David Page, a former police officer who specialised in intelligence and counter-terrorism (CT), and who is now a university lecturer and consultant, explores the impact of the pandemic on CT.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/defund-police-vernon-white
George Floyd’s death may be the tipping point for many jurisdictions to take aggressive action against racism in police departments in the United States. It has also meant calls for change to social services and policing in the rest of the world, Vernon White writes.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pacific-leaders-voices
Voices of Pacific leaders: COVID-19 and the path to recovery
Meg Keen | Asia & the Pacific Policy Society
https://www.aipm.gov.au/cant-breathe
Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Thalia Anthony says Australia is appalled by racist police violence in the United States, but does not confront discrimination within its own criminal justice system against First Nations people.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/covid-delivering-impactful-learning
How are you delivering impactful learning during this pandemic?
Lynne Foster | Policing Insight
https://www.aipm.gov.au/ceos-race-policing
Black Lives Matter protests, LA, U.S.A. Photo by Joseph Ngabo on Unsplash
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-leadership-professional-practice
In this article, we investigate police leadership by employing an alternative approach to management studies: we study leadership as practice epistemologically.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/covid-police-legitimacy
The Potential Impacts of Pandemic Policing on Police Legitimacy: Planning Past the COVID-19 Crisis
Daniel J Jones | Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pandemic-policing-politics
The politics of policing a pandemic panic
James Sheptycki | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/scrutiny-matters-george-floyd
The death of George Floyd in the United States, following restraint by police officers, has cast a global spotlight on police use of force.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pandemic-police-states
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments’ willingness to employ their police powers have been brought to the forefront. Pandemic police states utilize surveillance, dictates limiting association, and punishment in the name of combating the virus.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/covid-podcast
Podcast: Challenges for police during Covid19
Professor Karl Roberts | IBZ Schloss Gimborn e.V.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pandemic-police-leadership
The role of the police; the role of policing; and, perhaps most importantly, the role of police leaders amid these challenging and unprecedented times.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/policing-post-pandemic
Where once we might have measured operational time horizons in weeks and strategic time horizons in months and years, due to the pandemic hours and days have often seemed a better fit.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/isebp-collaboration
A world first collaboration of SEBP’s has seen police officers and staff, researchers and supporters of Evidence Based Policing from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, America and Canada come together to look at policing challenges that impact across the globe.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/COVID-19-special-papers
A series of papers focused on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for police agencies and other organisations with an interest in the topic.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/COVID-19-Law-Enforcement
In this special insert by International Association of Chiefs of Police resources related to COVID-19 are covered for the policing community.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/coronavirus-police-power
The COVID-19 crisis has – in a most dramatic and unexpected way – brought policing back to the forefront of the public mind.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-scrutiny-pandemic
Scrutiny is a vital aspect of police governance, but how does it work during a pandemic?
https://www.aipm.gov.au/police-trauma-coronavirus
'Police officers being called to 'more and more' coronavirus deaths in houses and care homes"
https://www.aipm.gov.au/policing-coronavirus
"This briefing is divided into three parts. First, we outline the factors which lead to incidents of collective disorder (or riots).
https://www.aipm.gov.au/karl-roberts-opportunity-knocks-coronavirus
The Coronavirus is likely to create new opportunities for crime as well as curtail others, says Professor Karl Roberts, a Consultant on Health Security and Policing for the World Health Organisation. Here, he examines the potential impact a pandemic can have on different crime types.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/iacp-covid-19-resources
Resources dedicated to aiding law enforcement in learning more about COVID-19 and how agencies can prepare.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/policing-pandemics-karl-roberts
Today the world is grappling with a global pandemic, Covid-19. This has caused much debate on the levels of preparedness of governments, health services, and the general population to deal with the challenges this virus represents.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/identity
In search of me, we, us and them
Andy Singh
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pacific-faculty-policing-opening
Commissioners and officials from across Australia and the Pacific region have come together to officially open the Pacific Faculty of Policing (PFP) in Manly.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/2019
It has been a big year for the AIPM and we have spent much of it positioning for some even bigger years ahead.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/connected-policing-importance-social-capital-and-boundary-spanning-australian-police
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pacific-faculty/pacific-programs
Pacific News
Click here to see whats been happening
https://www.aipm.gov.au/afac-ellis-carroll
In this regular series, AFAC CEO Stuart Ellis interviews a senior AFAC leader for each issue of Fire Australia. This issue he caught up with Katarina Carroll, former Commissioner, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/valuing-different-shades-blue
From diversity to inclusion and the challenge of harnessing difference
Abby McLeod, Victoria Herrington
International Journal of Emergency Services
Vol. 6 No. 3, 2017
https://www.aipm.gov.au/stuart-bartels-apm
Executive Director
Stuart first arrived at the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM) in July of 2019 and, after an extended period as acting Executive Director, was appointed Executive Director of the AIPM in October of 2020.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/renovation-renewal
Renovation and Renewal - Revisiting the Blade Runner
The more I explore leadership, the more I come to the conclusion it is about identity.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/building-better-police-leaders
3 Key Learnings:
Shared Journey + Emergent Knowledge = Professional Knowledge
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/evidence-based-policing-survey-police-attitudes
Evidence-based policing (EBP) advocates the use of scientific processes in police decision-making.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/reducing-crime-interview-geoff-barnes-wapol
"Geoff Barnes is the Director of Criminology for the Western Australia Police Force.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/Hong-Kong-VF-2019
Since 2013 the Hong Kong Police Force have been investing in their people and the AIPM by placing a senior officer into an AIPM Visiting Fellow role.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-service-transformation
A police service in transformation: implications for women police officers
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/resilience-policing
Resilience Policing: An Emerging Response to Shifting Harm Landscapes and Reshaping Community Policing
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/machine-learning-and-police
Machine Learning and the Police: Asking the Right Questions
https://www.aipm.gov.au/future-directions
Across April and May 2019 a series of meetings with Australian and New Zealand Policing shaped agreement and direction for the Australian Institute of Police Management. These meetings were built upon substantial discussion, consultation and experimentation as to the best approaches for building better police leadership in support of better public safety.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/queens-birthday-honours-2019
Congratulations to the AIPM Alumni on this year's Queen's Birthday Honour List
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/review-nsw-police-force-promotions-system
"Whilst the promotion system may have been an appropriate response to the needs of the NSW Police Force at the time, there is now an almost universal dissatisfaction with the existing promotions system among NSW police officers.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/aboriginal-strategic-direction-2018-2023
"Aboriginal people continue to be the most disadvantaged group in Australian society.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/co-responder-models-police-mental-health-%E2%80%98street%E2%80%99-triage
A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/fraud-time-choose
Fraud: Time to choose - An inspection of the police response to fraud
https://www.aipm.gov.au/W20
Opportunity Knocks at W20
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/intelligence-led-policing-practice
Reflections From Intelligence Analysts
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/systematic-review-police-recruit-training-programmes
"The purpose of the review is to learn from the evidence to inform the development of a graduate level training programme in England and Wales.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/preparing-individuals-leadership
Preparing individuals for leadership in Australasia, the United States, and the UK
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/effect-police-crime-and-arrests
Are police deterring or incapacitating criminals?
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/what-police-say-about-cpted-training
"This article reports on data collected from studies conducted in England and Wales and in New South Wales (Australia).
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/supporting-professionalization-police-canada
The Role of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in Supporting the Professionalization of Police in Canada
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/rethinking-police-education-united-states
"Higher education for police in the United States began as police science and police administration in the early-to-middle 1900s but morphed into criminal justice starting in the 1960s, continuing in that mold to the present.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/pc19
The annual ANZPAA Police conference is a 2 day policing conference established by the Police Commissioners of Australia and New Zealand. This year, over 400 leading thinkers, decision-makers and researchers in policing and law enforcement will explore the issues affecting and influencing policing now and into the future.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/being-topic-expert-not-sufficient
A mixed-method analysis of teaching dynamics at the Tasmania police academy
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/bias-crime-policing-graveyard-shift
"Bias crime is crime that is motivated by prejudice or bias towards an attribute of the victim, such as race, religion or sexuality.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/behavioral-insights-building-police-force-tomorrow
"In this report we share the results of work with 21 US jurisdictions to understand the motivations of those currently in the police force and to apply lessons from the science of human decision-making to the process of attracting and recruiting new pol
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-workforce-wellbeing-and-organisational-development
"The Police Foundation have published a report exploring in more detail the link between the way police organisations are led and managed and workforce wellbeing. There is a wealth of evidence showing that ‘employee engagement’ (for example through goo
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/%E2%80%9Cit-has-be-loose-fit%E2%80%9D
Fit is something we wrestle with in policing all the time...
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/coward-county
Last week I had one of those door locking moments. ‘’By 2028, 70% of our current leaders – Team leaders to Commissioner - will retire”. The bolt slid across the door and I realised we are all going to get a whoopin.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/reimagining-police-workforce
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/royal-solomon-islands-police-force-executive-program-delivery
Our recently delivered executive development program in the Solomon Islands was the first program delivered by the Pacific Faculty of Policing.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/professionalizing-criminal-investigation
An Examination of an Early Attempt to Support Specialization in Criminal Investigation
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/creating-culture-police-officer-wellness
"In this review, the authors discuss various sources of operational and organizational stress in policing, identify a number of promising wellness practices and strategies, and argue for the need for strong leadership among police executives to lead the
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/making-sense-body-worn-cameras-police-organization
A technological frames analysis
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/promoting-excellence-first-line-supervision
New Approaches to Selection, Training, and Leadership Development
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/new-agreement-tackles-transnational-serious-and-organised-crime-pacific
Last week executive members of the AFP, New Zealand Police, Fiji Police Force and Tonga Police met at AIPM to sign a MoU to demonstrate their commitment to targeting the scourge of organised crime across the Pacific.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/aipm-visiting-fellows-2019
This month we welcome our 2019 Visiting Fellows - bringing a wealth of contemporary industry knowledge and experience to our programs.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/australia-day-honours-2019
Congratulations to the AIPM Alumni recognised in this years Australia Day 2019 Honours List
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/how-police-and-public-can-create-safer-neighborhoods-together
"We all want to be safe, and our safety is intertwined, says Tracie Keesee, cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/gold-standard-strategic-plans
How well do Canadian police services do?
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/report-government-services-2019
The annual Report on Government Services (RoGS) provides information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia.
Chapter 6: Police Services.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/christine-wallace
https://www.aipm.gov.au/bob-fauser
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/law-enforcement-and-public-health
Law enforcement and public health: recognition and enhancement of joined-up solutions
Summary
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/21-lessons-21st-century
"Yuval Harari’s latest book builds upon his previous two, Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus. Harari is an historian, but this book is about modern philosophy.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/security-public-health-news
New research paper, published by the Lancet, out today by AIPM's Victoria Herrington, Auke van Dijk, Nick Crofts, Robert Breunig, Scott Burris, Helen Sullivan, John Middleton, Susan Sherman, Nicholas Thomson
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/nearly-twenty-years
The Canadian Police Executive Community Revisited
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/rank-matters
Police leadership and the authority of rank
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/lost-and-found-india
I was last in Mumbai 16 years ago.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/social-networks-problem-solving-managers
Police Officers in Australia and the USA
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/27-days-managerial-work-police-service
"Police managers earned legitimacy primarily through being foremost among equals.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/leadership-and-change-winnipeg%E2%80%99s-smart-policing-initiative
"This study looks at a Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) implemented by the Winnipeg Police Service. Line officers and management personnel were interviewed to determine how they dealt with the implementation of SPI.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/interagency-collaboration-models-people-mental-ill-health-contact-police
A systematic scoping review
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/answering-call
National Mental Health and Wellbeing Study of Police and Emergency Services
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/challenges-facing-specialist-police-cyber-crime-units
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/vanuatu-middle-managers-program
AIPM was tasked by the police force in Vanuatu to develop a leadership program for their middle managers.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/there-nothing-caterpillar-tells-you-it-will-be-butterfly
I like to think that Buckminster Fuller and I would have been friends. Fuller once said that “there is nothing in the caterpillar that tells you it will be a butterfly”, beautifully illustrating the challenge – and opportunity – of complexity.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-leadership-times-transition
"Large-scale police reforms in the Netherlands and Scotland were accompanied by transitions in police leadership.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/learning-how-lead-police-investigations
"The aim of this article was to investigate how police investigation leaders learn leadership and whether the facilitation of learning activities and learning methods might bridge the well-known gap between teaching and learning leadership.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-are-using-artificial-intelligence-spot-written-lies
There’s no foolproof way to know if someone’s verbally telling lies, but scientists have developed a tool that seems remarkably accurate at judging written falsehoods.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/future-policing-%E2%80%93-challenge-and-opportunity
"The future of policing presents both challenge and opportunity as advances in technology continue to influence how we interact as a society.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-initiated-diversion-youth-prevent-future-delinquent-behavior
The general pattern of evidence is positive, suggesting that police-led diversion reduces the future delinquent behavior of low-risk youth relative to traditional processing.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/better-angels-our-nature
"The better angels of our nature” is a phrase from Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address and was a plea to the American population to avoid what became the American Civil War.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/challenging-misconceptions-about-sexual-offending
Creating an evidence-based resource for police and legal practitioners
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-body-cameras-large-police-departments
Body Worn Cameras are spreading worldwide, under the assumption that police performance, conduct, accountability, and legitimacy, in the eyes of the public, are enhanced as a result of using these devices.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/reducing-crime-podcast
"Detective Inspector Mike Newman talks to me about his work introducing evidence-based policing to the Queensland Police Service in Australia, and the ways they have succeeded in embedding evidence-based practice into their agency."
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/operating-speed-challenge
Adaptive C2 as a New Paradigm for Police Command and Control at Critical Incidents
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/innovation-policing
Culture and cognitive diversity are key
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/counter-terrorism-strategy-2018-2021
The aim of this strategy is to: Describe Victoria Police’s counter terrorism response via the core focus areas of Prevention, Protection, Disruption and Response; Identify those activities and actions, current and future, that will support each of these
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/leadership-fractured-world
How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/transforming-policing
An interview with Mike Bush, New Zealand’s police commissioner.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/who-reports-domestic-violence-police
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/towards-national-measures-alcohol-related-crime-0
Based on an extensive review of the literature, interviews with representatives from all state and territory police agencies and a range of non-policing agencies, and a review of existing data sources, this report describes the data that are currently a
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-chiefs-and-their-political-bosses
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/are-police-cautions-soft-option
Reoffending among juveniles cautioned or referred to court.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/simple-changes-job-ads-can-help-recruit-more-police-officers-color
"The United States is experiencing a human capital crisis at all levels of government.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/privacy-policy
Australian Institute of Police Management built the AIPM Online app as a Free app. This SERVICE is provided by Australian Institute of Police Management at no cost and is intended for use as is.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/female-leaders-male-organisation
An Empirical Analysis of Leader Prototypicality, Power and Gender in the German Police
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/part-time-leadership-baden-w%C3%BCrttemberg-police-force
"This study analyses the question of whether the existing frameworks are useful to the police of Baden-Württemberg in Germany to successfully implement part-time leadership positions. This was done by a qualitative semi-structured interview study.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-intelligence-division-labour
"This article describes the police intelligence division-of-labour.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/action-plan-way-forward
Modernizing Community Safety in Toronto
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/impact-organised-crime-local-communities
The Police Foundation and Perpetuity Research completed a two-year study which focused on understanding the impact of serious organised crime in local communities and how this threat is tackled locally. Some of the most harmful crimes are unacknowledged
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/does-stop-and-search-deter-crime
Evidence From Ten Years of London-wide Data
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/2018-international-association-women-police-conference
The International Association of Women Police Conference is underway in Calgary where AIPM's Abby McLeod and Angela Workman-Stark are presenting their research and experiences in diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/organizational-and-practical-considerations-starting-crime-analysis-unit
"How can data analysis be implemented in a way that provides value to police department managers and patrol officers delivering service? This article examines the start-up of a crime analysis unit in a large, Midwest police department in 2015.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/mission-challenges-lessons-learned-and-guiding-principles-policing-communities
"Policing assistance within an international mission environment is widely recognised as being complex and fraught with challenges.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/bobbies-net-police-workforce-digital-age
The report finds that a range of changes are required to make forces fit to fight digital crime. Different parts of the workforce will need to change in different ways (see Figure 1).
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/managing-mental-health-australian-federal-police
The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Australian Federal Police in managing employee mental health. To form a conclusion against the audit objective, the ANAO adopted the following high level criteria: Has the AFP implement
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/changing-nature-crime-and-criminal-investigations
The reality is that the science of criminal investigations is changing rapidly, and many law enforcement agencies are not prepared for the changes that are taking place. This report is a wake-up call for the policing profession.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/shifting-blame-towards-self-reforming-police-service-england-and-wales
This paper uses the perspective of senior police leaders to explore the “blame culture” within policing and its impact on the aspiration to become a “self-reforming sector”. The paper argues that contemporary police cultures, and approaches to failure,
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/balancing-police-independence-and-political-responsibility-police
Some recent developments in Australia, Canada, and the UK.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/police-use-technology-insights-literature
Literature from a policing background will be reviewed to discover the positive impacts and benefits attached to its use, the potential obstacles to its implantation, and how lessons from one agency may be of benefit to others.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/research-policing-insights-literature
Publication: Researching the Police in the 21st Century
Abstract
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/towards-national-measures-alcohol-related-crime
"Research has demonstrated that alcohol misuse has a significant impact on police time and resources, the health sector and the Australian community more broadly.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/importance-evidence-based-policing-thinking-professional-police-officer
Police Science: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Evidence Based Policing, Vol 1(1), p 13-18
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/11th-international-conference-evidence-based-policing-institute-criminology-university
AIPM Deputy Director, Amanda McCormick, is currently at Cambridge University for the 11th International Conference on Evidence Based Policing. This year the university’s Institute of Criminology, in association with the Society for Evidence Based Policing, are discussing the theme “Transforming Police Outcomes With Research”.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/%E2%80%9Cyes-sir%E2%80%9D
Leadership and blind obedience in hierarchal organisations
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/when-helping-hurts-ptsd-first-responders
“This is the report of a day-long Australia21/FearLess roundtable exploring better ways of preventing the debilitating mental consequences of traumatic stress and improving mental health outcomes for front-line first responder personnel.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/public-safety-information
Find resources from these Australian and international public safety organisations promoting research in our sector.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/21st-interpol-police-training-symposium
This week our Deputy Director, Amanda McCormick, was in Asan, South Korea at the 21st INTERPOL Police Training Symposium. Fantastic to see over 50 countries represented discussing issues such as “Law Enforcement Education as a System”.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/andy-combes
Director Leadership Education
https://www.aipm.gov.au/andy-singh
https://www.aipm.gov.au/rod-smith
https://www.aipm.gov.au/dr-victoria-herrington
https://www.aipm.gov.au/amanda-mccormick
Director Pacific Faculty of Policing
https://www.aipm.gov.au/warwick-jones
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/managing-risks-nsw-public-sector-risk-culture-and-capability
"Effective risk management is essential to good governance, and supports staff at all levels to make informed judgements and decisions.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/end-policing
“There has been a long standing debate in this country about the role of the police. Indeed in the shadow of the Sheehy Inquiry in the 1990s the Police Foundation carried out its own independent review into the role and responsibilities of the police.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/police-leadership-complex-times
Authored by: Victoria Herrington* and Andrew Colvin**
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/diversity-and-inclusion-australian-policing-where-are-we-%C2%A0and-where-should-we-go
Public Safety Leadership: Research Focus
Author: Dr Abby McLeod
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/news/success-failure
Can we really build learning organisations in policing?
The 45th James Smart Memorial Lecture, Scottish International Policing Conference 2017
Presented by: Dr Victoria Herrington, Director Knowledge, AIPM
https://www.aipm.gov.au/knowledge/leading-systems
The AIPM Research Focus publication is a quarterly research paper that focuses on a key contemporary topic. This publication is designed to provide concise insight and inform our students, Alumni and the broader police and emergency service network on current research.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/knowledge/collective-leadership
Special Editions
Police leadership: An Australasian Commentary.
Policing: A journal of policy and practice, 10(1).
Herrington, V. (2016)
https://www.aipm.gov.au/knowledge/individual-leaders
Research at AIPM is undertaken to contribute to the understanding of the unique challenges faced by the public safety sector.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/knowledge/research/research-publications
If you are interested in any of the publications listed below please contact, our friendly AIPM Library staff.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/knowledge/research/public-safety-leadership-research-focus/public-safety-leadership-research-focus
Evidence based policing continues to be an important area of discussion among police organisations across the world, and parallels are often drawn with medicine as a means to describe how a profession can be enhanced through a commitment to evidence bas
https://www.aipm.gov.au/knowledge/research/public-safety-leadership-research-focus
There continues to be much debate about the value of research to policing.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/my-mother-law-criminal-threat
The age of securitisation.
Yesterday I attempted to write a short article about securitisation. The topic seemed too conceptual and remote. Why would anyone be interested?
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/code-silence-and-ethical-perceptions
Exploring police officer unwillingness to report misconduct
"The purpose of this paper is to explore Australian police officers’ perceptions of unethical conduct scenarios with the aim of understanding unwillingness to report infractions.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/challenges-digital-forensics
“It is the role of the digital investigator to bring cybercriminals to justice.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/assessing-use-traffic-enforcement-unit
“The purpose of this paper is to examine the 22-month life of a three-officer specialized Traffic Enforcement Unit (TEU) within one mid-sized municipal police agency.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/refugee-outreach-and-engagement-programs-police-agencies
“By serving community members and building trust, police advance their core mission of providing public safety, because community members are more likely to report crime and talk to the police about what’s happening in their neighborhoods when they know
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/cross-national-comparison-police-attitudes-about-domestic-violence-focus-gender
“The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first goal is to conduct a cross-national examination of law enforcement officer attitudes about domestic violence (DV) by comparing officer attitudes in the USA to officer attitudes in Australia.
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/dead-horse-gap
The frontier of modern policing
https://www.aipm.gov.au/engage/article/supertroopers
How do we end a long term relationship?
https://www.aipm.gov.au/aipm-australian-institute-police-management
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