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The AIPM holds the view that many of the challenges faced by policing today are similar across the globe. In fact in this ever shrinking world, issues on one side of the planet are often directly felt in another.

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Katy Barrow-Grint is a Superintendent with the UK's Thames Valley Police. She is currently the Head of Specialist Operations for Thames Valley, running covert policing for the force. We talk about her innovative approaches to domestic abuse, developing an internal evidence-based policing journal, becoming the inaugural Editor in Chief of the College of Policing Publication ‘Going Equipped’, and being a lead on #WeCops, a popular UK policing weekly twitter debate forum. 

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The COVID-19 pandemic upended major facets of global society, including policing. This study describes three types of changes that police agencies in counties worldwide made.

Research has undoubtedly led to a number of important changes to the way police obtain eyewitness identification evidence in a number of countries. However, despite these successes and the significant effort made by researchers to communicate key findings to public agencies, policy-makers and influential law enforcement personnel using a broad range of evidence, relevant policy and practice have either been very slow to respond or have not changed to incorporate the suggestions at all.

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Across the world, 2020 threw challenge after challenge at police. The headline may have been Covid-19, but the subheadings have been many.1 From the unprecedented need to enforce a public health lockdown and the resulting social ferment about connected issues of inequality, distrust in authority, and injustice to the inevitable adaptation of criminal enterprises, the palpable pendulum shift of public opinion toward police from hero to villain, and serious discussions in the United States and elsewhere about whether taxpayers should fund policing at all, policing has seen many challenges.

Understanding and supporting the stress management process is essential from many perspectives and should be the subject of future investigations.

The AFP librarians have collated the best podcasts in leadership and policing as recommended from our colleagues

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.  

Panelists:

​Wendy Steendam, APM
Deputy Commissioner Specialist Operations, Victoria Police

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Nick Thomson looks at how to unlock the public health partnership potential for Pacific policing services.

Let’s stop officers from ever getting to the point that they consider suicide as an option.

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.

“I think on the job is where it really develops.
You put into practice where you learn through

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.

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.

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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.

The role of the police; the role of policing; and, perhaps most importantly, the role of police leaders amid these challenging and unprecedented times.

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.

In this special insert by International Association of Chiefs of Police resources related to COVID-19 are covered for the policing community.

Scrutiny is a vital aspect of police governance, but how does it work during a pandemic? 

"This briefing is divided into three parts. First, we outline the factors which lead to incidents of collective disorder (or riots).

Resources dedicated to aiding law enforcement in learning more about COVID-19 and how agencies can prepare.

Andy Singh

It has been a big year for the AIPM and we have spent much of it positioning for some even bigger years ahead.

Click here to see whats been happening 

Abby McLeod, Victoria Herrington
International Journal of Emergency Services
Vol. 6 No. 3, 2017

The more I explore leadership, the more I come to the conclusion it is about identity.

Evidence-based policing (EBP) advocates the use of scientific processes in police decision-making.

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.

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.

"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.

"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.

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.

"Bias crime is crime that is motivated by prejudice or bias towards an attribute of the victim, such as race, religion or sexuality.

"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

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.

Our recently delivered executive development program in the Solomon Islands was the first program delivered by the Pacific Faculty of Policing.

"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

This month we welcome our 2019 Visiting Fellows - bringing a wealth of contemporary industry knowledge and experience to our programs.

"We all want to be safe, and our safety is intertwined, says Tracie Keesee, cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity.

The annual Report on Government Services (RoGS) provides information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia.

Chapter 6: Police Services.

"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.

I was last in Mumbai 16 years ago.

"Police managers earned legitimacy primarily through being foremost among equals.

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.

"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.

"The future of policing presents both challenge and opportunity as advances in technology continue to influence how we interact as a society.

"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.

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.

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

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

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.

"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.

"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.

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).

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.

Police Science: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Evidence Based Policing, Vol 1(1), p 13-18

Find resources from these Australian and international public safety organisations promoting research in our sector.

“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.

Public Safety Leadership: Research Focus 
Author: Dr Abby McLeod

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.

Research at AIPM is undertaken to contribute to the understanding of the unique challenges faced by the public safety sector. 

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

Yesterday I attempted to write a short article about securitisation. The topic seemed too conceptual and remote. Why would anyone be interested?

“It is the role of the digital investigator to bring cybercriminals to justice.

“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

In 2019 our Visiting Fellows are drawn from the Australian Federal Police, NSW Police, Queensland Police, South Australia Police, Victoria Police, Western Australia Police and Hong Kong Police.