Online course
Integrating Hot Spot Policing into Problem Oriented Policing, designing and evaluating policing experiments
Who is the course for
This course is intended for analysts and police leaders responsible for designing, delivering and evaluating their Force’s responses to hot spots of harm.
Why is the course relevant
Hot Spot Policing has repeatedly been proven to work but how it is delivered matters if one wanst to maximise the successes. It is also not simple to prove the cause and effect. That is the value of a good experiment. It is also not easy to seamlessly integrate the immediate response of Hot Spot Policing into a long-term Problem Orientated Policing approach.
This course trains delegates in how to deliver a Hot spot Policing Program, how to rigorously evaluate it and how to integrate it into a long-term Problem Orientated Policing solution.
Learning objectives
The learning objectives are to understand what good looks like in the design and evaluation of a Hot Spot Policing program. To learn how to test if a Hot Spot Policing program works and spot the reason it may be underperforming. To learn how to link and integrate, from the start, the Problem Orientated Policing approach that can follow a Hot Spots Policing plan.
Cost
£499 +VAT (where applicable)
Course content
The course comes in nine sections that can be completed at the convenience of the student over 16 weeks. It comprises of 39 videos (total duration just under 18 hrs) 25 documents, an assessed practical exercise, and a tutorial. We estimate that the total amount of study time will be in the order of 30-40 hrs, but this may vary with each student. Each student has sixteen weeks to complete the course. Extensions are freely available.
Section 1 is a welcome and overview of the course. It provides all of the links for further reading and material referenced in the course.
Section 2 covers the 50 key concepts in Evidence-Based Policing. This includes the Triple-T (Targeting Testing and Tracking) approach.
Section 3 covers the Cambridge Criem Harm Index. This is a weighted crime index that measures crime harm not crime count. The CCHI provides a smarter targeting tool.
Section 4 covers Hot Spot Policing. It explains what works and what hasn’t worked. It provides multiple case studies and it address myth of crime being displaced just around the corner.
Section 5 covers policing experiments. It set out options of how to map, what to map, units of measurement, the hierarchy of evidence (Maryland Scale) and alternatives to randomised controlled trials. It provides advice of how to set up and manage a randomise controlled trial and the mistakes to avoid, plus the important sampling design challenges in a survey evaluation processes.
Section 6 covers Problem Oriented Policing. It sets out the history, the CHEERS test, the SARA model, the 25 techniques of situational crime prevention and the ‘pre-mortem’ planning tool. These tools and techniques are then applied in multiple case studies from the UK and abroad, where Hot Spots Policing and Problem Orientated Policing have been integrated together effectively.
Section 7 covers legitimacy. This is Police legitimacy with the public, measuring legitimacy and measuring the self legitimacy Police feel for their mission.
Section 8 is a detailed practical exercise. The student is presented with a scenario and asked to present their initial integrated Hot Spots Policing and Problem Orientated Policing approach.
Section 9 is the tutorial. In this tutorial the student presents their approach to the practical exercise and discusses it with the tutor. The two will then critique the plan (using the pre mortem tool) and collectively seek to improve the plan. In the tutorial, over and above any contact the tutor and student have had already over the 16 weeks, there is a Q&A session about the course. The tutor will also provide further information as requested and any introduction of the student wishes to follow up any specific element of the course.