Integrating Hot Spot Policing and Problem Oriented Policing for South Africa
This course is delivered in partnership with the Justice and Violence Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, for a team of officials from the South African Police Service, City of Cape Town’s Safety & Security Directorate, and Western Cape Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety.
The ISS is grateful to the Hanns Seidel Foundation and Bavarian State Chancellery for generously funding the course.
Who is the course for
This course is a tailor made version of the three day in person course that is normally taught to Forces and Agencies who can travel to Cambridge.
The course has been designed and adapted with colleagues from the Justice and Violence Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in South Africa.
The course is designed for analysts, police leaders and public officials responsible for designing, delivering and evaluating policing’s approach to reducing and preventing serious violence.
Why is the course relevant
Hot Spot Policing has repeatedly been proven to work but how it is delivered matters if one wants to maximise the successes. The different environments also matter as tactics that may be appropriate in one jurisdiction will not necessarily apply elsewhere
To prove ‘case and effect’ is important and a rigorously implemented experiment can do this.
It is also challenging to seamlessly integrate the immediate response of Hot Spot Policing into a long-term Problem Orientated Policing approach.
This course trains delegates in how to deliver a Hot spot Policing Program, how to rigorously evaluate it and how to integrate it into a long-term Problem Orientated Policing approach.
Learning objectives
The learning objectives are:
(i) First and foremost, the principle objective is to be able to practically apply a Hot Spots Policing and Problem Oriented Policing approach in South Africa.
(ii) To understand what good looks like in the design and evaluation of a Hot Spot Policing program.
(iii) To learn how to test if a Hot Spot Policing program works and spot the reason(s) it may be underperforming.
(iv) To learn how to link and integrate, from the start, the Problem Orientated Policing approach that can follow a Hot Spots Policing plan.
Cost
£499 per person (with a VAT exemption certificate provided by CCEBP)
Course content
The course comes in seven sections which are supported by weekly tutorials and discussion groups hosted by the Justice and Violence Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies and CCEBP. The course commences on 14th June 2023
The formally taught element comprises of 39 videos (total duration just under 18 hrs) 25 documents. After this element of the course a two-day planning workshop takes place where students design their own intervention, including how they will track performance and measure success.
Over the following months these interventions are tracked and reviewed before a formal two day evaluation and debrief workshop which takes place in November 2023
Section 1 is a welcome and overview of the course. It provides all of the links for further reading and material referenced in the course.
Section 2 covers the 50 key concepts in Evidence-Based Policing. This includes the Triple-T (Targeting Testing and Tracking) approach.
Section 3 covers the Cambridge Criem Harm Index. This is a weighted crime index that measures crime harm not crime count. The CCHI provides a smarter targeting tool.
Section 4 covers Hot Spot Policing. It explains what works and what hasn’t worked. It provides multiple case studies and it address myth of crime being displaced just around the corner.
Section 5 covers policing experiments. It set out options of how to map, what to map, units of measurement, the hierarchy of evidence (Maryland Scale) and alternatives to randomised controlled trials. It provides advice of how to set up and manage a randomise controlled trial and the mistakes to avoid, plus the important sampling design challenges in a survey evaluation processes.
Section 6 covers Problem Oriented Policing. It sets out the history, the CHEERS test, the PANDA model, SARA model, the 25 techniques of situational crime prevention and the ‘pre-mortem’ planning tool. These tools and techniques are then applied in multiple case studies from the UK and abroad, where Hot Spots Policing and Problem Orientated Policing have been integrated together effectively.
Section 7 covers legitimacy. This is Police legitimacy with the public, measuring legitimacy and measuring the self legitimacy Police feel for their mission.