The Centre celebrated its 10-year anniversary

The Centre celebrated its 10^th anniversary with a two-day conference in November on the theme of “Retention and Prevention”, which has often been highlighted as a very important topic by members.

The event included panel discussions, collaborative workshops and featured several high-profile keynote speakers including Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Jason Hogg and Professor Sarah Charman from the University of Portsmouth. 

CPRL was established in 2014, initially as a four-month proposal to undertake research in partnership with seven police forces across the UK. In that short time, the team undertook two demonstration projects to show what police-academic collaboration could achieve. The projects focused on face recognition and the use of a gaming approach to improve the interviewing of child witnesses; both of which are still topical issues in policing. 

Since then, the Centre has developed a wide-ranging, ambitious and innovative programme of activities involving research, education and knowledge exchange in partnership with our police force members.

For those who could not attend we have created a page on the secure members area (if you have not accessed it before, you will need to email oupc@open.ac.uk) where you can find the slides from the presentations used and also videos from the conference.