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The impact of a local community engagement intervention on residents’ fear of crime and perceptions of the police

This document is a summary of the findings of an independent evaluation of the work…
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Protecting Communities from Serious Crime

Serious crime is an issue that blights many of our urban and…
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Positivity is nothing without action: My experiences of leadership in Litherland, Merseyside

…… there seems to be a common theme of me writing my…
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Great things don’t come from comfort zones!

So exactly whose comfort zones am I talking about? Maybe I would be…
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Speke Up – Tackling Serious and Organised Crime Through Strengths Based Engagement in Speke Merseyside

“There is evidence that suggests a strong correlation between low social capital and high levels…
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Capturing Thoughts About PCSOs and Engagement

I am writing this blog for three reasons: The practice of PCSOs is changing…
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Policing: Inspiration and Despair – knife crime is not our only problem

I’ve been talking all things policing over the last couple of weeks with…
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Modern Neighbourhood Policing – form or function?

Over the past few months I have shared a number of platforms with the College…
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Eureka!

Fourteen years I’ve been a police officer. Ask me why, and I’ll give you a…
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Developing evidence based policing: Building social capital

Susan Ritchie examines the case for developing evidence based policing to increase community engagement whilst…
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Success at “Unity in the Community” Participatory Budgeting Event

On Saturday 6th March, Andrew and Owen from MutualGain spent the day at ‘Unity in…
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MutualGain – Proud Sponsors of West Midlands Association of Women in Policing Awards 2017

MutualGain were pleased to sponsor the West Midlands Association of Women in Policing Awards 2017…
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From small idea to big change: challenging domestic abuse and hate crime through Participatory Budgeting

This blog is one of a series published on the PB Network pages following the…
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PCCs and Innovation: Innovating for Better Community Engagement

This blog builds on the learning from the MutualGain networked learning and support programme which…
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Football and Policing Social Citizens

I was challenged recently to consider how the MutualGain programme (capacity building the police to…
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Are you telling or listening to your community?

by Dr Andrew Fisher and Susan Ritchie The last few weeks have seen some very…
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