ABSTRACT
The Cambridge Police Executive Programme has been a wellspring for evidence-based policing (EBP) in Britain and around the world. Since its adoption of an EBP curriculum in 2008, the part-time, mid-career Cambridge master’s degree course has seen its faculty and students make major discoveries and its alumni become leaders of major policing organizations, “pracademic” authors of major research findings, and organizers of Societies of Evidence-Based Policing around the world. Their work has spread the application of such concepts and facts as the power few, the Cambridge Crime Harm Index (now in seven nations), the Triple-T (Targeting, Testing, and Tracking), residual deterrence, the Koper curve, hot spots policing, offender-desistance policing, criminal network analysis, solvability algorithms, and victim–offender overlap. The faculty has taught EBP in person or by shorter online training courses through the Cambridge Centre for EBP to hundreds of other non-degree learners a year. Open access articles in the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing have been read over 100,000 times. The Programme has become a proof of concept for the key role of pracademics in both policing and police research, a concept that can be replicated in other great universities.
