Blogs

We spoke with Claire Jacobs, an Inspector within the Criminal Justice Unit at Humberside Police, leading on the implementation for adult out of court disposals about how Humberside have moved from a 6 tier disposal to a 2 tier plus force.

We spoke with Sal Naseem about his thoughts on how we can improve trust and confidence in the police and how equality, diversion and inclusion could be embedded into police culture. 

We spoke with Alex Stevens on his view on current drug policy and moving away from over intensive and stigmatising interventions.

We co-hosted a session on #WeCops to get a better understandings of how front line officers feel about out of court disposals.

We explain the difference between drug diversion and decriminalisation, in response to media reports that the Mayor of London is planning to ‘decriminalise’ cannabis in the capital.

We spoke with Millie Garrod, a Higher Analyst at the Strategic, Evaluation and Analysis Team (SEAT) within Suffolk and Norfolk constabulary.

We spoke with Peter Neyroud, former police officer for 30 years and lecturer in evidenced based policing about lessons from pre-arrest diversion and what he sees in the future for improving the evidence base.

 

We spoke with Caroline Chapman, a police sergeant at Project Gateway about her experience a police out of court disposal scheme for young adults.

This article explains how the Ministry of Justice’s new bill will affect diversion and out of court disposals, and the Centre's hopes and concerns for this planned reform. 

We spoke with Joanne Preston, Inspector for Deferred Prosecutions at Merseyside police about their new Deferred Prosecutions scheme.