Latest News

  • New course:The operational delivery of Hotspot and Problem-Oriented Policing, with a focus on serious violence and anti-social behaviour 6-10th January 2025. Details here

  • Criminal Networks Analysis is running again Tuesday 1st to Friday 4th April 2025. Details here

  • Statistics for Evidenced-Based Policng will be running again from Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th December 2024 at Selwyn College Cambridge. Details here

In Person Courses

  • The operational delivery of Hotspot and Problem-Oriented Policing, with a focus on serious violence and anti-social behaviour 6-10th January 2025. Details here

  • Statistics for Evidence-Based Policing. Three days, Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th December 2024. Details here

  • Policing Responses to Domestic Abuse (DA) and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Three days (18th-20th December 2024). Details here

  • Policing with Procedural Justice. Two days (20-21 June 2024). Details here

  • Targeting the Risks of Serious Violence. Five days (23rd to 27th September 2024). Details here

  • Criminal Networks Analysis. Four days (17-20th September 2024 or 1-4th April 2025). Details here

Online Courses

  • Policing with Procedural Justice Details here

  • Hot Spots Policing for PCs and PCSOs. Details here

  • Integrating Hot Spots Policing into Problem Oriented Policing, Designing Experiments and Evaluating Performance’. Details here

  • Policing to Reduce Serious Volence (Police Leaders Course). Details here

  • Targeting the Risks of Serious Violence (Analysts Course). Details here

Coming Soon

  • Online version of ‘Policing Responses to Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls’ for International Forces

  • Online course: ‘Evidence-Based Policing for Serious and Organised Crime’

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Welcome to the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing

Online & In-Person Training, Research, Consultancy

Meet Simon Rose

CEO

After three decades of service to the Metropolitan Police Service of London at New Scotland Yard and in field operations, Simon Rose joined the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing in January 2022. He became Director of the Centre in September 2022 upon the appointment of Cambridge University Professor Emeritus Lawrence W. Sherman, the Centre’s founding CEO to become the first Chief Scientific Officer of the Metropolitan Police.

At his retirement from New Scotland Yard, Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Rose had served almost two years in command of the Intelligence Department of the Metropolitan Police. In that role he supervised 1450 officers and staff based in London, the Southeast UK and abroad. Simon has an extensive background in intelligence having served as a Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) and Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) in internal anti-corruption, a Borough Intelligence Manager as a Detective Inspector (DI) and a ‘regional desk officer’ as a Detective Sergeant (DS) in Special Branch. Prior to leading Met Intelligence Simon was Temporary Commander, Crime, and previously head of the Basic Command Unit for the North West London boroughs of Barnet, Brent and Harrow.

Simon has extensive experience in police training in both the UK and abroad. He managed the Centre’s support for the English Level 4 Intelligence Analyst Apprenticeships, as well as the international one-week courses delivered in Cambridge University colleges. He has also lectured for the National Police Academy of India in the Indian Police Service Mid-Career Training Program, at both Levels 3 and 4. He has taught at the U.S. State Department’s International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEA) in Botswana, Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia in relation to police intelligence systems and processes.

Since joining the Cambridge Centre, Simon has led consultancy teams for both the UK Home Office and the College of Policing. His initial work focused on the implementation and evaluation of the Government’s GRIP funding to reduce violence in 18 police forces across England and Wales. He has also led the Centre’s consultancy work with police in Cumbria, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and the Brazilian police.

His educational preparation for leading the Centre includes his MBA from Warwickshire Business School, his Cambridge M.St. in applied criminology and police management, and his ongoing PhD studies on volume crime solvability factors and algorithmic decision making to improve crime screening decisions.