The guiding theme for the 14th edition of the CEPOL Research and Science Conference, jointly organised with the Hungarian National University of Public Service in Budapest, was “Innovation”: how new ideas, technologies, concept - and new forms of crime and deviance - form and shape law enforcement institutions, like police, customs, border guards, prosecution and courts, and their demands for training and education today and in the future.
As before, the CEPOL 2017 Research and Science Conference will convene practitioners in policing and other areas of law enforcement, trainers, educators and scientific scholars from Europe and the international sphere. The roughly 220 participants, mainly from Europe, but also from Canada, Hong Kong, Thailand, Ukraine and the United States, attended more than 80 presentations, including poster sessions and practical demonstrations of advanced training hard- and software.
Plenary keynotes were delivered by
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Anabela Gago Head of Unit "Innovation and Industry for Security" in DG "Migration and Home Affairs" (DG HOME) at the European Commission |
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Oldrich Martinu Deputy Director Governance of Europol |
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Sean Malinowski Commander, Chief of Staff at Los Angeles Police Marjolijn Bruggeling Joyce Research Associate at California Policy Lab (CPL) and Project Lead at University of Chicago Crime Lab |
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Marleen Easton Professor at Ghent University, Belgium, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia and Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany |
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James Sheptycki Professor of Criminology at York University, Toronto, Canada |
Believing that law enforcement is a service for and on behalf of the citizens, we continue to publish the outcomes of the CEPOL Research and Science Conferences to facilitate science-based progress in this field of public concern. Where presenters agreed on the publication of their presentation files here at this public webpage, they can be accessed from the list below (alphabetically sorted by first author’s family name).
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE PRESENTATIONS
Otto Adang - Policy Academy, The Netherlands |
Babak Akghar - CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University, Uniterd Kingdom Holger Nitsch - University of Applied Sciences for Public Affairs, Germany |
José María Blanco - Guardia Civil, Spain Jéssica Cohen - Spain Félix Brezo - Spain Yaiza Rubio - Spain |
Ksenija Butorac - Police College, Croatia Irena Cajner Mraović - Croatia Mislav Žebec - Croatia |
Marielle Chrisment - Gendarmerie, France |
László Christián - National University of Public Service, Hungary |
Tor Damkaas & Jaishankar Ganapathy - Norwegian Police University College, Norway |
Kristina Doa & Aleksandar Vanchoski - Institute for Human Rights, F.Y.R.O.M. |
Arne Dormaels - Vias Institute, Belgium |
Sander Flight - Sander Flight Onderzoek & Advies, The Netherlands |
Jean-Francois Gadeceau - INTERPOL |
Thierry Hartmann - French Ministry of Interior, France |
Adrian James - University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom |
Philipp Lohrmann - BMT Group, Uniterd Kingdom Steffi Davey - Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom |
Nelson Macedo da Cruz - Republican National Guard, Portugal José Fontes - Portugal Vítor Nogueira - Portugal |
Oldrich Martinu - Europol |
Antonio Molinaro - Italian Ministry of Interior, Italy Günther Humer - Province Directorate, Austria Céline Grassegger - Departmental Directory of the Public Security, France |
Katalin Molnár & Erna Uricska - National University of Public Service, Hungary |
Sónia Morgado, Ricardo Alves & Manuel Magina da Silva - Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, Portugal |
Markus Naarttijärvi - Umeå University, Sweden |
Casimiro Nevado Santano, Silvia Iluminada Ramos Perez - Spanish National Police Force, Spain Daniel Garnacho, Alvaro Ortigosa - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
Holger Nitsch - University of Applied Sciences for Public Affairs, Germany |
Kate O'Hara - An Garda Síochána, Ireland |
Steve Palmer - University of Regina, Canada Gregory Krätzig - Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada |
Rasha Abdul Rahim - Amnesty International |
Vasiliki Romosiou - University of Ioannina, Greece |
James Sheptycki - York University, Canada |
Tom Sorell - University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
Lola Vallés Port, Alicia Moriana & Rob Munro - Institute for Public Security of Catalonia ISPC, Spain |
Sirpa Virta & Harri Gustafsberg - University of Tampere, Finland |
Additional presentation files are available on the R&S conferences pages of the CEPOL e-Net (registration and approval by CEPOL National or Organisational Units required).
The organisers would like to thank all presenters for their highly appreciated contribution and their commitment to sharing their knowledge and research outcomes.
A Special Conference Edition of the European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin with extended full papers of the conference contributions is in preparation, and it is due for publication later in the year.
CONFERENCE THEME
As in tradition, the CEPOL 2017 Research and Science Conference had brought together practitioners in policing and other areas of law enforcement, trainers, educators and leading scientific scholars from Europe and beyond.
The topical focus of the event was on innovations in law enforcement, examined through the lens of scientific research and academic study and looking at the implications from three different angles:
The conference organisers had invited presentations, preferably based on recent empirical research or academic study, addressing the following areas and lead questions:
The two and a half day conference took place in Budapest, generously hosted by the Hungarian National University of Public Service. The organisation relied on its proven format of focusing on professional information exchange and facilitation of networking amongst the participants from different continents, countries and institutions.
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