Practitioner Fellowships
Police-protestor liaison
Inspector Craig Menzies Grampian Police
Inspector Craig Menzies has been a trained Police Negotiator since 1999 and is established as an
experienced practitioner and national trainer in the field of hostage/crisis negotiation, both at
the Scottish Police College and the Metropolitan Police. He is a national instructor in kidnap
and extortion management for negotiators, and has also undertaken specialist training in
relation to International Hostage taking incidents. He has recently been awarded a Masters
degree by the University of Leicester which included a dissertation evaluating crisis
management by police negotiators in Scotland.
Objectives:
- review the literature on liaison by police officers with protest groups and relevant
operational deployments
- examine the history and development of police protester liaison, and research,
analyse and evaluate current international operational and training models, and
specific operations where it has been utilised, and
- Research, analyse and evaluate the perceived effects of operational deployment of trained Police Negotiators to incidents of attempted suicide/self harm with the subjects of such action.
- evaluate the lessons learned form international experience in this field and highlight
the opportunities for Scottish policing
Planned Activities:
- In relation to objective one:
- literature review of police liaison with protester groups.
- In relation to objective two:
- develop and liaise with an international network of academics and
practitioners [police and non police] with an interest in police operations, and
- compile a "directory" of operational incidents highlighting good practice and
lessons learned.
- In relation to objective three:
- evaluate a wide range of international experience to ensure knowledge
transfer; encourage cross-organisational isomorphism, and identify
opportunities available to Scottish policing for future training and deployment.
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Key Outputs:
- The provision of a formal report to the SIPR and the ACPOS Business Area of
Operational Policing and Personnel & Training.
- Presentations at professional meetings.
- A submission to a peer – reviewed journal.