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Catch up with the final episode to find out which investigations led to a radical overhaul of police powers.

We are pleased to announce that The Centre for Policing Research and Learning has been shortlisted for the Open University Research Excellence Awards under Best External Collaboration.

The Centres Director of Research: Professor Graham Pike and other Open University Academics have created a series of videos for The BBC.

The videos can be found on this link.

Open University Professor Jean Hartley received this year’s Medal for Research from the British Academy of Management (BAM) at its annual conference in Birmingham

The Centre for Policing Research and Learning Annual Conference - Learning from success, near miss and failure took place on 9-10 October 2019 at the Open University, Milton Keynes. The conference had an excellent line-up of authorative speakers and Powerpoint slide decks and AV clips are available on previous events page.

The Open University’s Centre for Police Research and Learning (CPRL) project team, working with their partners at MOPAC and survey specialists IFF, launched their planned second survey to look at the state of Learning and Development across police forces and agencies in England and Wales on Monday 25^th June 2019

The report has been produced as a result of visits to 15 police forces from the centre membership.

We wish to appoint a Senior Research Fellow/Research Fellow to work for the centre.

We’re looking for Policing participants to help us.

Peter Bloom and his project team unveiled their new virtual reality project ‘Virtual Inclusion: Tackling Hate and Extremism Using Virtual Technology’ at the Google Showcase in London at the end of January.