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In May the third module of the Professional Doctorate was taught and completed at London Metropolitam University to postgraduate students by Dr Clive Harfield and Dr Nick Ridley of the John Grieve Centre.
Applications are invited and are currently being accepted for the SEPTEMBER 2008 INTAKE of the Professional Doctorate in Policing, Security and Community Safety course. If you are interested in enrolling in this course please get in touch with Dr Nick Ridley
Dr Clive Harfield will be completing the final year of his career break from the police service overseas, moving on promotion to take up at the beginning of August the post of Associate Professor of Law, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia (on the coast an hour south of Sydney). He has recently been appointed to the editorial boards of Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (UK) and the International Journal of Criminal Intelligence (Australia).
JGC lectures at Teramo University, Italy
In late May 2008 Dr Nick Ridley of the John Grieve Centre gave a series of lectures on terrorism and terrorist financing to students at University of Teramo Italy. The course was the International Master's Degree on Transnational Organised and Financial Crime of the University of Teramo. The participants included individuals from Italy, Ukraine, Kosovo, and Romania.
New book from JGC staff
INTELLIGENCE; INVESTIGATION. COMMUNITY. PARTNERSHIP
Clive Harfield & Karen Harfield, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
978-0-19-923003-7, published 12th March 2008.
The latest volume in the Blackstones Practical Policing series (the first volume in which was Harfield and Harfield's best selling COVERT INVESTIGATION), this latest book explores practice, theory and law in relation to intelligence working for police and partner agencies.The updated Second Edition of COVERT INVESTIGATION is scheduled for publication in November 2008.
The John Grieve Centre, in conjunction with the Research and Intelligence Suport Centre (RISC), held a one day training session "Effective MAPPA" on 15th November 2007. The course, which took place at Wyboston Lakes in Bedfordshire, was designed to introduce new concepts for dealing with "MAPPA", the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements, which aim to provide a framework for the assessment and management of the most serious sexual and violent offenders. Presentations were given by Prof John Grieve and Dr Nick Ridley from the John Grieve Centre as well as by serving Police officers and members of RISC. The day also included syndicate exercises designed to give practicioners awareness of new approaches to MAPPA. Over 60 people attended this successful event.
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"Effective MAPPA"
15 November 2007
Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire |
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Dr Nick Ridley on behalf of the JGC attended a conference "Motivation For Suicide
Bombers Advanced Research Workshop" which was conducted between
24-25 May
2007
in Ankara (Turkey) by the Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism.
The conference was hosted by the Turkish army, attended by armed forces, law
enforcement and academics from the UN NATO, UK, USA, Middle Eastern countries,
Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia and central Asian countries.
The subjects included:
- operational aspects of suicide bomb attacks
- the exchange of intelligence by security services and law enforcement
- the changing role of women in suicide terrorism
- the psychological profiling of suicide terrorism
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"Motivation For Suicide Bombers Advanced Research Workshop"
24-25 May 2007
Ankara, Turkey
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