Police Science Dr Podcast, making research accessible to the police practitioner

Ex-police officer Gareth Keyte was a very happy and successful police officer - a Public Order Commander, Initial Firearms Commander and Senior Investigating Officer, until it was not the trauma of the things he saw in the community that broke him, but how he was treated by his organisation, that made him fall. He had to take time off to deal with his mental health and then had to leave the job altogether - but he was able to climb out of that hole and start a new life with the help of coaching. We speak about mental health in policing, a massive topic at the moment, and the steps you can take to ensure you don't remain stuck in a bad situation.

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Interview with PC Andrew Harris, who might possibly be the UK's most effective cop!

Andrew managed to reduce violence and disorder by 70% (!) by being a uniformed presence on mental health wards that wanted more police support to protect their staff and patients.

Bedfordshire Police are working with local mental health services and these services are very cooperative with Andrew, as the project has been so incredibly effective at reducing incidents.

Andrew is approachable both to patients and staff, he enables patients to come and talk to him when they are frustrated and to talk things through rather than reacting without thinking. Andrew gets the patient to reflect on their decision-making and their behaviour, and many incidents have been prevented that way before they even took place.

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Police Science Dr will interview Prof Clifford Stott, an expert in public order policing, on how best to handle large crowds, which has been a serious issue for policing around the world recently. Clifford Stott is a Professor of Social Psychology and Dean for Research in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Keele University. He specialises in crowd psychology and has a wide-ranging interest in understanding the role of group-level dynamics in police-citizen interactions. He currently sits on the Behavioural Science sub-committee of the UK Government Scientific Advisory Group in Emergencies and co-Chairs their Policing and Security group.

 

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This week:

• Corporal Punishment
• Mental Health & Police At Uni
• Concerns About Bodycams 

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Live interview with Professor Jason Roach on Self-Selection Policing: how to identify serious offenders from the minor offences they volunteer to commit.

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Is there a predictable path to domestic murder? Professor Jane Monckton-Smith has identified a common pathway in coercively-controlling relationships that can end in murder. Watch the full interview: https://www.policesciencedr.com/28-jane-iv Also, if you are interested in attending the free Rapid-Fire on Behavioural Science In Policing, register here: https://www.policesciencedr.com/rfc And you can now pre-book the first feature-length course on the Police Science Dr Academy: 'Emergency Stress Pit Stop - Helping Police Officers & Police Staff Beat Stress, Take back Control & Thrive' on https://www.academy.policesciencedr.com/

No time to get bored!
A free online event that will deliver short, sharp 10-minute training sessions. Learn about:

•  Where to find the evidence in sexual offence cases
•  How to deal with people in crisis as a 1st responder
•  How to recognise the 8 stages to domestic homicide
•  How to use behavioural science in crime analysis
•  How to prevent crime using the psychology of influence
•  How to use geographic profiling to advance investigations
•  How to link the right crimes together to have more pieces to the puzzle
•  How to handle stress when working in the police
•  Why victims of domestic abuse don't leave their partner and how to help them

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This week:

• Organised Crime Intervention 
• Fraud Reporting 
• Violence Exposure & Cognitive Outcomes 

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Interview with Nick Roy, a crime analyst based in the US, and host of the NIRO Knowledge podcast, who talked to me about the challenges in crime analysis.

Watch full interview here: https://www.policesciencedr.com/27-nick-roy-iv

LIVE interview with the amazing Ginny McKenna, who helps cops reclaim their live by guiding them through stress and trauma brought on by the job.

She gets what these officers and staff are going through, as she's walked in their police boots herself - she was a frontline police officer for over 21 years and found herself on the brink of suicide.

Today, she dedicates her life to helping those who are where she was, so that they never reach those dark places she's been.