Reform or Re-Form: what鈥檚 wrong with the police and what should we do about it!
Public lecture followed by expert panel discussion
This event will feature a public lecture by Dr Peter Neyroud followed by an expert panel discussion on the Police White Paper: where Peter will be joined by other experts including Professor Sarah Charman (黑料正能量) and Paul Matthews (Police Federation National Board member with responsibility for leadership, culture and workloads and Non-Executive Director at the College of Policing).
The lecture will cover the following issues. The government has recently released a White Paper on police reform that signals one of the most far鈥憆eaching overhauls of policing in decades鈥攊ncluding proposals for the potential amalgamation of several police forces and other significant structural changes.
In this public lecture, Dr. Peter Neyroud鈥攆ormer senior police officer and now a leading academic at the University of Cambridge鈥攄raws on his unrivalled professional and scholarly expertise to unpack, analyse, and challenge the key ideas within the White Paper. His unique dual perspective offers a rare and authoritative examination of what these reforms could mean for the future of policing.
Dr Peter Neyroud CBE QPM PhD
Peter Neyroud is an Associate Professor in Evidence-based policing based in the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on, amongst others, police diversion of offenders, crime harm, police ethics, community policing, the impact of COVID 19 on policing and police leadership and management. He has published books on Police Ethics, Police leadership and on the Policing of COVID 19.
Peter was a police officer for more than 30 years, serving in Hampshire, West Mercia and Thames Valley (as Chief Constable). He set up and ran the National Policing Improvement Agency (as Chief Constable and Chief Executive). In the latter role he was responsible for national implementation of all the major programmes in UK policing, including Neighbourhood Policing, Workforce reform and new technology.
In 2010, he was commissioned by the UK Home Secretary to carry out a fundamental 鈥淩eview of Police Leadership and Training鈥 which led to the establishment of the National College of Policing in 2012 and radical reform of the qualifications and training of police officers, creating the new 鈥淧olice Education Qualification Framework鈥.
He is a member of the Campbell Collaboration (Crime and Justice Group) and led an international collaboration on prevention of terrorism and radicalization. He is currently an expert on the UKRI funded METIUS programme to deliver systematic reviews with AI support.
He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Visiting Professor at Teesside and Huddersfield Universities, Visiting Fellow at the Indian School of Business and an Honorary Lecturer at the 黑料正能量. He is the Chair of the Blue Lamp Trust.