Policing with Procedural Justice.
What is it? Why is it important? What works? How can it be built into business as usual?
Thursday 20th June to Friday 21st June 2024
Challenge: How can existing policing services be delivered in a more procedurally just way to improve community confidence, generate greater support from communities, reduce the use of force, improve legitimacy and improve the morale of the workforce?
Who should attend: The course is aimed at first and second-line supervisors who are responsible for the delivery of operational policing in their area and want to deliver policing services in a more procedurally just way in order to reap the benefits that this delivers.
Objectives:
Students will leave the course with an understanding of:
The drivers of Legitimacy and Procedural Justice and how they fit together.
How to measure Procedural Justice in the delivery of policing.
What works in improving procedurally just policing, what does not work, and what is the difference in apparently similar approaches that succeed and fail?
What are the benefits that can be expected from a more procedurally just approach?
How to set up a localised program to coach, measure and evidence the success of a procedurally just approach in high volume policing interactions.
Course Structure:
Day One: The course begins by explaining the constituent parts and drivers of Legitimacy and Procedural Justice, as well as how they relate to each other. We set out how Legitimacy and Procedural Justice have been described and measured, and the international policing initiatives to deliver more procedurally just processes that have been tested.
By presenting case studies, we explain how Procedural Justice initiatives have been designed, delivered, and evaluated. We pick apart the detail of the training, methodology and implementation plans. We help delegates understand what has worked, why things are likely to work and in what circumstances they are likely to fail.
Where initiatives have been undertaken to track Procedural Justice in high volume encounters, we describe the research and show delegates how they can replicate these initiatives, at minimal cost within ‘business as usual’. We present to delegates how to best target a local coaching and training program to where it will have the greatest impact in relation to the four pillars of procedural justice (voice, neutrality, respect, and trustworthy motives).
Day Two begins with a case study of an experiment that succeeded in delivering improved procedural justice and improved outcomes. We follow this with a replication of that experiment, but one that did not deliver the anticipated benefits and backfired. We analyse the fine detail of what was different, and support delegates to appreciate this nuance; it is not just what is done but how it is done that matters.
Then using actual videos of UK police-citizen encounters we take delegates through the process of picking apart the details in the videos that will contribute to the perception of whether the encounter was “fair” and delivered in a procedural just way. We help delegates to see the small practical changes that they can identify and coach to encourage changes in officer behaviour in multiple high volume policing encounters.
In the afternoon of day two, we take delegates through how they can undertake a robust quantitative assessment of the delivery of policing through the lens of Procedural Justice. We show them how they can measure this against the four pillars and use this to identify where training and coaching will have the greatest impact. Finally, we then support delegates in developing localised training and supervision programs to deliver a measurable and effective Procedural Justice approach in their Force.
Faculty: The Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing team teaching this two-day, high intensity course includes the following instructors:
Dr. Heather Strang, PhD Australian National University, Director, Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology, Co-founder Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing
Dr. Eleanor Neyroud PhD, University of Cambridge
Dr. Sara Valdebenito, PhD, University of Cambridge
Detective Chief Superintendent (Retired) Simon Rose MBA, MSt, PhD candidate University of Cambridge
Cost: This two day course, per person, offers two pricing options:
Residential (inclusive of 2 nights bed, breakfast and lunch) = £950 + VAT.
Non-Residential (with lunch) = £730 + VAT.