Our purpose is to drive progressive change in policing.
Our values revolve around policing by consent of the community, and the prevention of crime. We aim to be a policing ‘Silicon Valley’ to incubate a future-orientated vision for progressive policing that can enable community policing by consent, trust and legitimacy.
We drive innovative enterprise and learning by bringing together professional and academic thinkers in a collaborative space to co-problematise and co-produce insights, targeting real-world problems and re-imagining prototype policing of the future.
We seek high impact, co-problematised, applied research, acting as a nexus point between professional policing practice and research as an international innovation hub. We are the ‘go to’ place for progressive, future-orientated policing in the world, where we complement ‘what works?’ with a more proactive, future-orientation mission of ‘what if?’.
PIEL stimulates research insight to accelerate agile innovation enterprise, utilising practice expertise in a blend of dynamic praxis, as part of the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGPP), London.
We are driving an innovation in policing global competition, to accelerate change through ideas to realise the best of what policing could be and are keen to work with international partners. We affiliate with the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) as a vibrant global network, with representatives all over the world, working as one team: you will find PIEL Centres wherever there is a spirit of policing enterprise.
Director Dr John Coxhead, Professor of Applied Policing Practice.
Co-Directors Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera and Charles Critchlow, QPM.
Deputy Directors Dr Emma Cunningham
Dr Nadia Habashi
PIEL Centre Ambassadors Visiting Professor Danny Ash
Honorary Professor Sue Fish, QPM
Honorary Professor Terry O’Connell, OAM
Contact j.coxhead@uel.ac.uk
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