Integrating Hot Spots Policing into Problem Orientated Policing, designing experiments and evaluating performance 


Created by Prof. Lawrence Sherman

This 16-week comprises the following modules:

Introduction
Evidence-Based Policing (EBP) , the Triple-T (Targeting, Testing and Tracking) and  the Power Few
The Cambridge Crime Harm Index (CCHI) 
Hot Spot Policing (HSP)
Policing Experiments
Problem Orientated Policing (POP)
Practical Exercise
Tutorial

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Professor Lawrence Sherman

Professor Sherman was the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing and the Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Professor Sherman is affiliated with the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Director of the Police Executive Programme and a Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology.

Professor Shreman left the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing  to take up a post as The Chief Scientific Officer for the Metropolitan Police Service in Octrober 2022.  

Dr. Heather Strang

Dr. Strang is the Director of Studies of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. She is also the Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology. In 2019 she was elected to a two-year term as President of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.

Dr Eleanor Neyroud

 Eleanor Neyroud obtained her PhD at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. The PhD focused of the overlap between victimisation and offending in low level offenders.
As well as working with the Centre for Evidence-Based Policing and on the Cambridge Crime Harm Index, Eleanor is currently working as a data analyst with the Metropolitan Police on a randomised controlled trial, testing out-of-court disposals and supporting multiple Forces with theoir policing experiments. 

Dr. Matt Bland

Dr. Bland is an Associate Professor in Evidence-Based Policing  at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and a former Head of Strategic Analysis and Principal Intelligence Analyst for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies.

His research interests include, Evidence Based Policing, Domestic Abuse, Algorithms in Policing, Randomised Controlled Trials and
Data Mining

Matt is also a Visiting Senior Fellow in Policing at the University of Suffolk and a scholar at the Jerry Lee Institute for Experimental Criminology.

Professor Jerry Ratcliffe

Jerry Ratcliffe is a former British police officer, college professor, and host of the Reducing Crime podcast. He works with police agencies around the world on crime reduction and criminal intelligence strategy. After an ice-climbing accident ended a decade-long career with London’s Metropolitan Police, he earned a first class honors degree and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. He has published over 90 research articles and nine books, including most recently “Reducing Crime: A Companion for Police Leaders.” Ratcliffe has been a research adviser to the FBI and the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, an instructor for the ATF intelligence academy, and he is a member of the FBI Law Enforcement Education and Training Council. He is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.

Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar is a Project Manager at the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. He is completing a Ph.D. at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Sara Valdebenito

Sara was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Applied Criminology and Police Management on the Police Executive Programme in March 2023.

Sara came to Cambridge in 2011 to complete the MPhil in Criminological Research program at the Institute of Criminology. In September 2012 she was awarded the MPhil degree (with distinction) for her dissertation entitled: “The association of school bullying with drug use and weapon carrying, a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies.”
She was awarded her PhD in July 2018.  Her doctoral thesis focused on the evaluation of an intervention aimed at reducing school exclusions by utilising a randomised controlled trial design.

Sara has been working with the Centre since 2017 and was promoted to Research Associate in 2018. She has been teaching at the University of Cambridge as Associate Lecturer since 2015.

Before joining Cambridge University, Sara worked for the Chilean government, where she took part in the design and implementation of the new policy for the Juvenile Justice System (20.084 Act). She is still associated with Alberto Hurtado University, where she held a position of lecturer in the School of Social Sciences. 

Dr. Justice Tankebe

Justiceis Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Prior to coming to Cambridge, he studied for a BA in Sociology at the University of Ghana, Legon. He was awarded postdoctoral research fellowships by the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, and Fitzwilliam College.

Justice's research interests are in police and state legitimacy, corruption, police violence, and vigilantism. His current research projects include legitimacy and counter-terrorism policing in the UK, police violence in Ghana, and corruption among prospective elites in Ghana. 

Simon Rose 

Simon retired from the Metropolitan Police Service in February 2022 after just over 30 years of service leaving as a Detective Chief Superintendent. His last role was as the OCU Commander for Met Intelligence leading a team of 1,450 officers and staff based in London, the Southeast UK and abroad. 

Simon first graduated in chemistry but undertook an MBA at Warwick Business School in 2012 before coming to Cambridge to study for an MSt. in Applied Criminology and Police Management in 2016. He continued his studies at Cambridge, beginning a part time PhD at Cambridge in 2018. He is currently writing up this research which looks at volume crime solvability factors and algorithmic decision making to improve crime screening decisions.

Simon has lectured on the Indian Police Service Mid-Career Training Program Stage three and four. He has also taught at the American International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Botswana, Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia in relation to police intelligence systems and processes.

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