The Cambridge offers two short courses on policing serious violence using evidence-based policing - one for analysts and one for police leaders. We’ve already had 47 officers from Ontario on these courses, and counting.

Targeting Risks of Serious Violence: Cambridge Online Course for Police Analysts

Policing to Reduce Serious Violence: Cambridge Online EBP Leaders’ Short Course

Our tutors for these short courses include:

The Centre is pleased to announce the Ontario Evidence-Based Policing Course, a 12-month certified course with personal supervision from a Cambridge Tutor.

Evidence-Based Policing (EBP) is a way of looking at police decision-making that moves beyond traditional police assumptions about what works in carrying out policing duties and activities. Just as the Community Safety and Well-Being Planning framework guides us in strategically planning how to better invest resources to maximize returns when it comes to public safety, EBP provides a toolkit to support police professionals in designing the most effective crime prevention, disruption, and reduction services to fight crime, violence, and victimization.

As police professionals navigate in today’s complex and challenging socio-political climate, influential police leaders at every rank and position need to understand how EBP can expand their thinking and collective mindset to inspirationally and organizationally move law enforcement organizations from outputs- to outcomes-driven work.

In February 2021, the Cambridge Centre of Evidence-Based Policing and the OACP held a very successful online conference. This conference was, amongst other things, the launch of our ‘Ontario Evidence-Based Policing Course’, a certified 12-month course including personal supervision by a Cambridge Tutor.

Partnership with Canadian Police Chiefs group

The Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing is pleased to have forged a partnership with the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police.

The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) is the voice of Ontario Police Leaders.

Ontario is Canada’s most populous province with 15 million residents, and it is policed by over 9,000 officers and staff.

In 1951, the OACP was created to be the voice of Ontario’s police leaders. They provide a channel for police leaders to share ideas and cooperatively create solutions to meet the challenges facing police leadership in Ontario, Canada.

Their association is not-for-profit and they are based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.