We are Intensive Engagement (IE).
We are working to develop safer, stronger and more resilient communities in 2021. We have been leading development, conducting research and putting this into place in UK communities for over 10 years.
Our Vision
Turning the vision, ambitions and capabilities of individuals and communities into reality- to face the challenges of 2021 and beyond.
How is this achieved?
Working locally within communities, and at the same time engaging directly with leaders and authorities we can share powerful insights, we can identify assets that individuals and communities offer, and we can build a sustainable framework of participation that extends from street level activity to new leadership collaboration.
We help tranform neighbourhoods. Is Intensive Engagement right for you?
If you have said yes to any of these questions, the LISP approach to intensive community engagement is for you.
Intensive Engagement doesn't do community engagement 'for you'. The Intensive Engagement toolkit develops the capacity of police forces to implement and sustain community involvement in neighbourhood policing.
We do this through training you, and your team, to implement an 8-step tactical community engagement accompanied by a strategic engagement process using a unique and proven toolkit that we have developed over a period of 10 years. We help you demonstrate your skills and competence in this process, and ensure that you can accredit you and your team. We will also assist you to evaluate the impact of the process of training you, and implementing the community engagement process and the projects and interventions it creates.
- Are you responsible for policing a high crime/ high demand location?
- Do you operate in a ‘complex’ community environment?
- Are you struggling to fully engage with all of your communities?
- Are you sure you are working effectively with partners and stakeholders?
- Are you new to neighbourhood policing/ community engagement?
- Have the problems in your community lasted for more than two years?
- Are you being held to account for crime patterns and community problems that just won't budge?
- Do you need to connect to a new, hidden, vulnerable or misunderstood community?
- Do you want to improve perceptions of trust, confidence and legitimacy in your community?
If you have said yes to any of these questions, the LISP approach to intensive community engagement is for you.
Intensive Engagement doesn't do community engagement 'for you'. The Intensive Engagement toolkit develops the capacity of police forces to implement and sustain community involvement in neighbourhood policing.
We do this through training you, and your team, to implement an 8-step tactical community engagement accompanied by a strategic engagement process using a unique and proven toolkit that we have developed over a period of 10 years. We help you demonstrate your skills and competence in this process, and ensure that you can accredit you and your team. We will also assist you to evaluate the impact of the process of training you, and implementing the community engagement process and the projects and interventions it creates.
Rich Pictures |
We've been asking people to show us a rich picture of their lives and aspirations for a better future for the better part of a decade now. This is a core technique in our toolkit. Here is a showcase of their work to make hidden lives more visible.
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There are over 100 different techniques for engaging with the community, including 'appreciative enquiry', 'positive deviance', 'participatory budgeting' and 'world cafe', to name some of the more fashionable. Each of them can be thought of as 'tools in the toolbox' of an effective neighbourhood police officer. But nobody, until now, has come up with the instruction manual on how to do 'community engagement' in a way that is consistent and repeatable, flexible to the local situation, and which has a measurable impact on police performance and legitimacy. None of these community engagement tools work, unless you have the frameworks and processes in place to receive the community information and sustain the engagement.
Intensive Engagement is a package of tactical and strategic activities that have been proven to significantly improve neighbourhood policing. |
I have longstanding concerns that the bedrock of neighbourhood policing is being eroded.
A dedicated neighbourhood policing team in a local community is able to build trust and confidence in a much deeper way than response officers will ever be able to........Where the work of neighbourhood teams is inconsistent, unstructured or insufficiently supported, it leads to a patchy understanding of threat, harm and risk within communities. Without the intelligence provided by neighbourhood teams, forces cannot properly analyse and exploit data from other services.
State of Policing: The Annual Assessment of Policing in England and Wales 2016
"The LISP approach to intensive engagement
is the 'Haynes Manual' of community policing"
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