Scottish Institute for Policing Research Second Annual Conference and Annual Lecture

"Policing Scotland in a European Context"

The SIPR Annual Conference, "Policing Scotland in a European Context," was sponsored by BT and held on 2 September 2008, at the Murrayfield Stadium Conference Centre, Edinburgh.

The Conference was followed by the Annual Lecture, presented by Jürgen Storbeck (Director General for Homeland Security in the Ministry of Interior of the State of Brandenburg), sponsored by Alpha Translating & Interpreting Services Ltd

A Book of Abstracts and Biographies (pdf file [307 Kb]) is available to download. This includes Abstracts for all the Platform Presentations shown below, together with Abstracts for the Poster Presentations.

We are grateful to the University of Bochum for recording the Plenary Session. Please follow these links for Adone Connect Presentations (slides + video/audio) of the Plenary Session and PowerPoint presentations / Transcripts for the Network Sessions as available.

Plenary Session

• Welcome, Professor Nicholas Fyfe, Director of SIPR
• Fergus Ewing MSP (Minister for Community Safety)
• Paddy Tomkins (HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland)
• Diversity as a business issue
  Dr Max Daniel (Police Commissioner, the Netherlands)
  PowerPoint [5.7 Mb]
  Adobe Connect Presentation
• The best police in the world: learning at all cost…
  Professor Otto Adang (Police Academy of the Netherlands)
  PowerPoint [1.7 Mb]
  Adobe Connect Presentation
• Peacekeeping and police reform in the new Europe: lessons from Kosovo
  Professor Thomas Feltes (University of Bochum, Germany)
  PowerPoint [8.8 Mb]
  Adobe Connect Presentation
  Text of presentation [706 Kb]
• Scottish policing and Europe: a developing relationship
  Chief Constable Ian Latimer (ACPOS)
  PowerPoint [103 Kb]

Adobe Connect Presentation
Text of presentation [31 Kb]
• New technologies for policing Europe
  Donald McCalman (BT) & Sandy Gilchrist (Director, Public Safety and Security, NICE Systems)
  PowerPoint [6.7 Mb]

Biographies and Abstracts for the Plenary Session Police-Community Relations

UK and European Perspectives on Radicalization: a debate
'Has the official response to the terrorist threat created more problems than it has solved?'

Contributors:

• Chair: James Matthews (Scotland Bureau Chief, Sky News)
• Osman Mehmood (Active Life Club)
• Paul Castledine (SEMPER Scotland)
• Nick Croft (Scottish Government)
• Dr Jeffrey Murer (Univ. of St Andrews)

Biographies and Positioning Papers for the contibutors of this debate

Evidence & Investigation

Technology and Policing
Chair: Professor Jim Fraser, Associate Director, SIPR

• The coming of age of science and technology in policing
  Richard Earland (Chief Information Officer, NPIA)
  
• Pressing keys and feeling collars
  Norrie Dixon (ACPOS National Mobile Data Project Manager)
  
• Technology related to facial identification
  Dr Derek Carson (Univ. of Abertay)
  PowerPoint [2.9 Mb]
  
• How do child witnesses fare with video parades?
  Prof. Amina Memon (Univ. of Aberdeen)
  PowerPoint [4.0 Mb]
  

Biographies and Abstracts for the Evidence and Investigation Session

Police Organization

Scottish Policing, Global Perspectives
Chair: Dr Kenneth Scott, Associate Director, SIPR

• European cooperation in Serious Organised Crime
  Gordon Meldrum (Director-General, SCDEA)
  
• Terrorism: some lessons learned
  Prof. David Alexander (RGU)
  PowerPoint [1.03 Mb]
  
• The EU legal framework of policing/strong>
  Dr Maria O'Neill (Univ. of Abertay)

PowerPoint [396 Kb]

• The National Intelligence Model - European perspective
  Supt. Russell Scott & Anne Lavery (ACPOS NIM Development Team)
  PowerPoint [867 Kb]
• Improving the recovery of the proceeds of crime in Scotland
  Dr Peter Sproat (UWS)
  
• Sharing Information & Intelligence Nationally - UK- Internationally
  Alastair Luff, ABM United Kingdom Limited
  PowerPoint [362 Kb]

Biographies and Abstracts for the Police Organization Session The Annual Lecture

Chair: Peter Wilson, SIPR
Vote of Thanks: John Graham, Police Foundation

• Changing challenges for homeland security in Germany and Europee
  Jürgen Storbeck (Director General for Homeland Security in the Ministry of Interior of the State of Brandenburg)
  PowerPoint [432 Kb]
  Adobe Connect Presentation
  

  We are pleased to acknowledge the generous support of the Major Sponsors of the Annual Lecture, Alpha

  Alpha Leaflet [2.1 Mb]
  Abstract and Sponsor's Message [261 Kb]
  

We are pleased to acknowledge the generous support of the Major Sponsors of the Conference, BT.

We are pleased to acknowledge the generous support of the Major Sponsors of the Annual Lecture, Alpha.

We are pleased to acknowledge the generous support of the Sponsor of the Police Organization Session, ABM UK Ltd.

The Radicalization Debate:
(l to r) Croft, Murer, Castledine, Mehmood. Seated, Matthews

Technology and Policing:
(l to r) Back: Memon, Carson, Dixon. Front: Earland, Fraser

Scottish Policing, Global Perspectives:
(l to r) Back: O'Neill, R Scott, Sproat, Meldrum, Alexander. Front: Lavery, K Scott

The SIPR Annual Lecture: Jürgen Storbeck

The SIPR Annual Lecture:
(l to r) Back: Fyfe, Wilson. Front: Storbeck, Graham