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  • NYPD The Blood and the Badge with Michael Cannell

    NYPD The Blood and the Badge with Michael Cannell
    Jan 27 2025
    This episode is around the book, The Blood and the Badge and is based in New York around the NYPD and a true story of two cops who were secretly on the mafia payroll. For more than ten years, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa moonlighted as the mob’s early warning alert system, leaking names of mobsters secretly cooperating with the government and crippling investigations by sharing details of surveillance, phone taps and impending arrests. Michael has worked as a reporter for Time and an editor for The New York Times. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated and many other publications. A really interesting episode.

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    49 min
  • Wearable Technology in Policing - Transforming Frontline Policing

    Wearable Technology in Policing - Transforming Frontline Policing
    Jan 9 2025

    Please check out our latest episode on the Policing Conversation. We have Dr Carol Cox, James Baker & James Yates discussing the latest transformative research, around Wearable Technology within policing, coming out of the LJMU LCAPS at Liverpool John Moores University within the LJMU School of Justice Studies. Dr Carol Cox stated, “This study on using wearable technology methods allow us to better understand the quality of life of police officers and staff and their motivations for behaviour change, whilst ensuring the anonymity of individuals." James Yates, has a decade of experience in occupational health, James has cultivated a strong interest in workplace health and cardiovascular disease risk, particularly among emergency service workers. This passion drove him to pursue an MSc by Research, where he explored the prevalence and factors of hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and injury risk within a UK police organisation. James Yates is a Research Assistant on the Shape Your Wellbeing Wearable Technology study and is keen to find practical and effective interventions to support emergency services personnel and staff in improving their health. Dr James Baker is from School of Computer Science and Mathematics within the Faculty of Engineering and Technology



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    27 min
  • Policing in Custody with Professor Layla Skinns

    Policing in Custody with Professor Layla Skinns
    Jul 26 2024
    Professor Layla Skinns is a Senior Lecturer in criminology in the Centre for Criminological Research at the School of Law, University of Sheffield. Professor Skinns research has been police detention, in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the Anglophone world. We discuss the conditions of police custody as well as police powers and the issues with them.

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    1 h
  • Policing in Nigeria with Ukasha Ismail

    Policing in Nigeria with Ukasha Ismail
    Jul 22 2024
    Ukasha is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State. He teaches courses related to community policing, conflict resolution and management, police-public relations, criminal investigation. Ukasha is a former law enforcement official who has over 12 years working experience in Crime prevention and control in Nigeria. Ukasha is now concentrating on research within policing and has produced papers around Cyber Policing in Nigeria.

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    51 min
  • Current State of Policing with Dr Peter Neyroud

    Current State of Policing with Dr Peter Neyroud
    Mar 7 2024
    Dr Peter Neyroud is an Associate Professor in Evidence-based Policing and has been at the Criminal Institute since 2010, following a 30-year career in the police service. Peter served for 30 years as a police officer in Hampshire, West Mercia and as Chief Constable of Thames Valley. He set up and ran the National Policing Improvement Agency as CEO. In 2010, he carried out the “Review of Police Leadership and Training” which led to the establishment of the new “National College of Policing”, in 2012.

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    36 min
  • Foreign Fighters and Jihadism with Professor Daniel Byman

    Foreign Fighters and Jihadism with Professor Daniel Byman
    Feb 12 2024
    Professor Daniel Byman is a leading researcher on a range of topics related to terrorism, insurgency, intelligence and the Middle East. He is the author of Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs Know, and A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. This episode we cover a range of topics from the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and Foreign Policy within the Middle East.

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    33 min
  • Extremism in Germany with Daniel Koehler

    Extremism in Germany with Daniel Koehler
    Jan 12 2024
    In this first episode of series 3, we sat down with Daniel Koehler who the founding Director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies (GIRDS). Daniel advises the Ministry of the Interior in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on guiding the state-wide CVE activities. Daniel has long practical experience in deradicalization counselling and program design and has published his first two monographs: Understanding Deradicalization: Methods, Tools and Programs for Countering Violent Extremism (2017) and Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century: The 'National Socialist Underground' and the History of Terror from the Far-Right in Germany (2017). A really intriguing episode about the threats of terror within Germany.

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    41 min
  • Policing, Vulnerability and Research with Professor Adam Crawford

    Policing, Vulnerability and Research with Professor Adam Crawford
    Sep 18 2023
    In this episode, I sat down with Professor Adam Crawford who is a Professor of Policing and Social Justice at the University of York and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds. In 2013, he established and was the inaugural Director of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP, 2013-20); a collaboration between eight universities and policing partners across the north of England. Alongside the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, Adam is currently working on a European Commission Horizon 2020 project IcARUS: ‘Innovative Approaches to Urban Security’ (2020-24). In this project he led the research and production of the State of the Art Review and Roadmap that will inform the co-design and implementation of innovative approaches to urban security in the six partner cities.

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    37 min