The operational delivery of Hotspot and Problem-Oriented Policing, with a focus on serious violence and anti-social behaviour
Monday 6th to Friday 10th January 2025
Overview
This course focuses on the operational delivery of Hot Spot Policing (HSP) and Problem Oriented Policing (POP), what works, what does not and what good practice looks like.
The course will introduce to delegates the core principles, practicalities, and best practice in Evidence-Based Policing, POP, and HSP, using case studies and practical examples where initiatives have succeeded and failed.
The focus of the examples and case studies will be serious violence and anti-social behaviour.
Examples will be given regarding how to problem solve well, how to target, task, and track effectively, how to measure performance reliably, and how to seamlessly integrate the Hot Spots Policing into efficient long term effective POP plans.
The course will include a group presentation project. Delegates are encouraged to bring (appropriately sanitised) policing problems to the course that will be worked on in small groups to design an integrated HSP and POP plan to take back to Force.
Who should attend?
Officers and staff responsible for the delivery of hot spots policing and problem oriented policing initiatives as well as analysts responsible for measuring and reporting on the performance of these programs
Course Structure (five days)
Day one begins with an introduction to the theory for problem solving and the models available, the key principles of evidence-based policing, the business case for a systematic approach to targeting and showcasing some tools to focus targeting and measuring performance. Day one concludes with agreeing of the topics for the group presentations on Friday. Delegates are encouraged to bring a problem with them for which they wish to design an integrated response.
Day two focuses on case studies of HSP and POP and tools to enable delegates to critically evaluate the quality of evidence that they may be presented with as well as some brief examples of ‘bad evidence’.
Day three is a more detailed look into the problem solving process, highlighting what tends to separate success from failure and the good ideas that delegates may wish to ‘borrow with pride’. The afternoon of day three introduces additional targeting strategies including the use of supervised algorithmic forecasting and the importance of building in procedural justice to the delivery of the policing plans.
Day four begins with a deeper dive into the good practice of hot spot policing, a case study of excellent implementation and failed replication , options for measuring performance and how to anticipate and design out failure in policing plans.
Day five begins with some case studies of problem solving outside of policing, the use of data from outside of policing and a deeper dive into problem solving for ASB. Day five concludes with the group presentations of the plans to address the ASB / violence problems and a Q&A session to refine and improve those plans to take back to force.
Faculty
The Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing team teaching this course includes the following instructors:
Matt Sessions, former force lead for problem solving at Surrey and Warwickshire, UK Tilley award winner for problem solving and Goldstein (global problem solving award) finalist
Dr. Eleanor Neyroud PhD, University of Cambridge
Detective Chief Superintendent (Retired) Simon Rose MBA, MSt, PhD candidate University of Cambridge.
Cost
This five-day course, per person, offers two pricing options:
Residential (inclusive of 4 nights bed & breakfast) = £1,810.00 + VAT.
Non-Residential = £1,350 + VAT.