Welcome to the website of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR).
Welcome to the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), a strategic collaboration between 13 of Scotland's universities and
the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, funded by the Scottish Funding Council, offering a range of opportunities for conducting relevant, applicable research to help the police meet the challenges of the 21st century and for achieving international excellence for policing research in Scotland.
RECENT AND CURRENT PROJECTS The activities of SIPR are organized around three thematic networks. Please follow the links to view a range of research projects being carried out by SIPR members:
Police-Community Relations - focusing on the relationships between police and different social, cultural and economic communities;
Evidence and Investigation - focusing on the role of the police in the recovery, interpretation and effective use of intelligence and evidence in the investigation of crime;
Police Organization - focusing on the internal dynamics of police organisations, including issues of management, policy and leadership.
Latest Additions
VRU conference: Scotland and Violence Prevention Friday 12 - Monday 15 October, Scottish Police College
As well as workshops by the practitioners who successfully produced significant gang related violence in Glasgow, leading international authorities on violence will be appearing at the conference. Register to receive further information...
- For details of forthcoming SIPR events, and other relevant meetings See the SIPR Noticeboard...
- Professor Peter Neyroud will present the 6th SIPR Annual Lecture on 25th October 2012.
Registration form... - VRU conference: Scotland and Violence Prevention
Friday 12 - Monday 15 October, Scottish Police College
Register to receive further information... - Surveillance, Technology and Policing: historical and contemporary perspectives. 30 April, University of Dundee. Download Podcasts ...
- The Unique Knowledge and Practice of Scottish Rural Policing: implications for governance, supervision, support and training in times of austerity. Monday 28th November, Northern Constabulary, Inverness Download Podcast ...
- Professor Peter Manning. Democratic policing in a changing world. 8th November Download Podcast ...
- Police Governance and Accountability in Comparative Perspective: Centralism, Localism and Democratic Policing, Friday, 4th November 2011, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Download Podcasts ...
- The 5th SIPR Annual Lecture. 20th October, Scottish Police College, Tulliallan, Professor Betsy Stanko - Metropolitan Police Service. Download Podcast ...
- For details of forthcoming SIPR events, and other relevant meetings See the SIPR Noticeboard...
- Outputs from Emergency Planning Workshop PowerPoints NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
- Outputs are available for all past SIPR events Download here...
- Scottish policing and policy transfer: devloping a sustainable model of community policing in Sri Lanka Bruce Milne and Gordon Thomson, Scottish Police College, discuss a three-year training programme. [Entered March 2012]
- SIPR Annual Report for 2011 Download a copy... [1.58 Mb]
- A Report on the Emergency Response Workshop - by Tom Ball [Entered January 2012]
- Practice Notes: Tackling youth gang issues on campus - a case study Robert Smith, RGU & Liz Frondigoun, Glasgow Caledonian University [Entered, November 2011]
- SIPR Annual Newsletter 2011 available to Download... including 'bonus articles' [Entered, September 2011]
- Research Summary: Take control - a road safety education evaluation Hayley Kelly et al, Grampian Police [Entered, September 2011]
- Research Summary: Rural policing: understanding police knowledge and practice in rural communities Professor Tara Fenwick, Dr. Richard Dockrell, Dr. Bonnie Slade & Ian Roberts, University of Stirling; Professor Nicholas Fyfe, University of Dundee [Entered, September 2011]
- Research Summary: Exploring the relationship between performance management and community policing Diarmaid Harlin, University of Edinburgh [Entered, September 2011] 4th edition of the Select Bibliography of Scottish and contemporary policing, with 976 references Download a copy...
- Evaluation of plusone mentoring Matej Blazek, Donna Marie Brown, Fiona M. Smith & Lorraine van Blerk [Entered, June 2011]
- Research Summary: Scottish Police Leadership Deevelopment Janette McCrae, Senior Careers Development Service & Angela Wilson, Tayside Police [Entered, May 2011]
- Research Summary: A public health approach to the evaluation of the Glasgow Community Initiative to Reduce Violence Laura Burns, Damien Williams & Peter Donnelly, University of St Andrews [Entered, March 2011]
- Research Summary: Hostage and crisis incidents: an evidence-based analysis to inform police negotiator training provision Professor David Alexander, The Robert Gordon University [Entered, March 2011]
- Research Summary: Policing vulnerability? The impacts and implications of no cold calling zones in angus Andrew Wooff, University of Dundee & Brian Smith, Senior Trading Standards Officer, Angus Council [Entered, February 2011]
- Developing the role of the police Early Intervention Officer [Entered December 2010]
- An Analysis of Independent Custody Visiting in Scotland [Entered December 2010]
- Forensic interviews with children in Scotland: A survey of interview practices among police A Report by David La Rooy, Michael Lamb and Amina Memon (12/05/10)
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'What is policing for? Examining the impact and implications of contemporary policing intervention
A report of the series of Public Policy Seminars organised by the ESRC in collaboration with SIPR, The Police Foundation, and the Universities' Police Science Institute - SIPR Research Summaries Progress Reports from the SIPR Research Students
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SIPR Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Policing studies launched!
more information... (16/06/10) -
CPD Course - University of Abertay. "How good are my interviews? Assuring quality for child interviewers"
more information... (16/06/10)