WHITE PAPER No. 1: 21st Century Community Engagement: Are actions speaking as loud as words? The challenge and opportunity of 21st century community engagement
Purposeful community engagement is now widely recognised and recommended as a crucial step in a delivering social change, including policies around crime reduction, preventing radicalisation, and building trust and confidence in policing; in the first of a series of articles, Intensive Engagement’s Richard James (a former police territorial commander) and Associate Professor Dr Tim Curtis explore the essential processes needed to create focused, sustainable and effective community engagement
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Purposeful community engagement is now widely recognised and recommended as a crucial step in a delivering social change, including policies around crime reduction, preventing radicalisation, and building trust and confidence in policing; in the first of a series of articles, Intensive Engagement’s Richard James (a former police territorial commander) and Associate Professor Dr Tim Curtis explore the essential processes needed to create focused, sustainable and effective community engagement
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| WHITE PAPER No. 1: 21st Century Community Engagement: Are actions speaking as loud as words? The challenge and opportunity of 21st century community engagement |
WHITE PAPER No. 2: 21st Century Community Engagement: Turning the key? Can leaders unlock the transformational power of volunteers
At a time of increasing pressure on public services there may never be a better time for leaders to refresh their thinking on how they harness the considerable resources that remain largely untapped in every community. In the second of a series of articles Intensive Engagement’s Richard James (a former police territorial commander) Dr Ian Britton (a leading authority on Citizens in Policing- CiP) and Jayne Pascoe (Head of Partnerships and Projects for Neighbourhood Watch Network) suggest there is no shortage of support available. Can leaders turn the key and unlock this resource?
At a time of increasing pressure on public services there may never be a better time for leaders to refresh their thinking on how they harness the considerable resources that remain largely untapped in every community. In the second of a series of articles Intensive Engagement’s Richard James (a former police territorial commander) Dr Ian Britton (a leading authority on Citizens in Policing- CiP) and Jayne Pascoe (Head of Partnerships and Projects for Neighbourhood Watch Network) suggest there is no shortage of support available. Can leaders turn the key and unlock this resource?
| WHITE PAPER No. 2: 21st Century Community Engagement: Turning the key? Can leaders unlock the transformational power of volunteers |
WHITE PAPER No. 3: 21st Century Community Engagement: enabling ‘a new mode’ of local policing and place-based public safety
This paper describes a high-level operating model for local policing, working explicitly as part of a preventative system. Working through themes of people, problems, and places we draw out implications for local leaders – in policing and other sectors – and the importance of effective community engagement as a key enabler of efforts to deliver public safety.
| WHITE PAPER No. 3: 21st Century Community Engagement: enabling ‘a new mode’ of local policing and place-based public safety |
WHITE PAPER No. 4: 21st Century Community engagement: the gap between expectations and reality in neighbourhood policing skills.
This research explores the skill set required to sustain long-term community engagement and involvement of the public in public safety. Previous research has indicated that a long-term stable and skilled implementation team is essential to successful neighbourhood policing (Curtis, 2022) and the skillset of those involved needs to be systematic and widespread. The research involved a survey of 150 police officers’ confidence regarding such skills, triangulated with them showing how they might deliver these skills in a real-world ‘street-level strategising’ exercise.
| WHITE PAPER No.4. 21st Century Community Engagement: The gaps between expectations and reality in neighbourhood policing |