Targeting Risks of Serious Violence:
The Cambridge Online Course for Police Analysts
This course is now available online. Learners can experience this Cambridge course from their own desks, removing the need for travel and accommodation, and empowering them to take the course alongside their daily operational duties.
Learners can work through lectures and data analysis exercises at their own pace within a 16-week period. The online course includes 5 one-on-one live video sessions with a personal tutor, including a final assessment.
Learners who pass the assessment are invited to our annual graduation ceremony at Cambridge at no charge.*
Please note that the graduates you see in the videos on this page attended the course in person in Cambridge in January 2020. The content taught in the online and in-person version is the same. However, learners receive more personal hands-on tutoring in the online version of the course than they did in the course taught in a large group setting in Cambridge.
TARGETING RISKS OF SERIOUS VIOLENCE:
The Cambridge Online Course for Police Analysts
Challenge. How do we identify the people and places at highest risks of serious violence? How do we update those forecasts, every day, to better use police resources to prevent crime? The answer lies in more evidence-based crime analysis for proactive strategies.
Objectives. Applying rapid advances in IT and other technology, this online course, spread across 16 weeks from each learner’s enrolment date, will help police force analysts to become more skilled and effective at the following urgent tasks:
· Identifying people most likely to be victimized by, or to commit, serious violence
· Tracking serious violent crime using a Crime Harm Index (CHI)
· Predicting the most likely micro-hotspots for murders and GBH assaults
· Tracking police activities by hotspots in relation to crime trends
· Feedback and digital alarms to patrol teams for delivery of patrol time by hotspot
· Tracking—and deterring—criminal networks producing serious violence
· Testing the violence-reduction impact of police strategies applied to specific targets
Faculty. The Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing faculty teaching this 40-hour,** high intensity online course includes the following instructors under the leadership of Professor Lawrence Sherman, Wolfson Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and Honorary President, Society of Evidence-Based Policing, in collaboration with Professor Jerry Ratcliffe of Temple University, author of Intelligence-Led Policing, and
Prof. Barak Ariel, experimentalist on serious offenders & hotspots, University of Cambridge;
Dr. Justice Tankebe, police legitimacy analyst, University of Cambridge;
Dr. Matthew Bland, former Head of Strategic Analysis for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies and Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing, University of Cambridge;
Dr. Sara Valdebenito, Violence Research Centre, University of Cambridge;
Kent McFadzien, embedded Cambridge Centre Criminologist at Kent Police, UK;
Detective Sergeant Natalie Hiltz, Peel Regional Police, Canada.
Tutorials. Every delegate is assigned a personal tutor for 5 one-on-one live video sessions over 16 weeks from each learner’s enrolment date, including a final assessment. All graduates are invited to our annual graduation ceremony in Cambridge at no charge.*
Cost.
The fee for 16-week access to the online course is £985 (+ VAT where applicable) per learner.
The Cambridge Centre is pleased to receive, with immediate effect, Purchase Orders and Registrations for this online course. Learners can register now and commence the course at a time that suits them, in agreement with their tutor.
This course is open to all present and aspiring police professionals who wish to understand recent developments in knowledge and techniques for strategic management of democratically-governed police agencies, both in the UK and abroad.
The Cambridge Centre has been advised that police forces in England and Wales receiving Home Office special funding for serious violence may assign the cost of this course to that funding.
Once payment has been received, each learner agree an enrolment date. The week prior to the agreed enrolment date, the learner receives the enrolment and tutor details. From enrolment date, each learner has 16 weeks to complete the course and assessment process, to be scheduled in consultation with each learner’s tutor.
*Travel and accommodation not included.
** This is only the approximate number of hours that it would take a learner to complete the course.