EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF POLICING
(affiliated to the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research)
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Director: Professor Clive Emsley Enquiries: Dr Paul Lawrence The Open University Telephone: +44 (0)1908 652477 Aims The European Centre for the Study of Policing aims to promote and facilitate research into the history and practice of modern policing around the world (since c.1750), and to generate the exchange of ideas between academics and serving policemen. This is achieved via seminars, conferences, publications and the provision of specialist archive facilities. The Centre is located within the Arts Faculty of The Open University and is affiliated to the (GERN) Groupe Européen de Recherche sur les Normativités. It also has close connections with the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité Intérieure (IHESI) and the Arbeitsgruppe zur Polizeigeschichte. The Centre has research specialisms in the history of crime and policing in Europe, military law, and the history of colonial policing. Recent visiting research staff have come from as far afield America, New Zealand, Australia and Brazil, and the permanent staff at the Centre are always keen to hear of relevant research being conducted world-wide. Facilities The Centre holds a substantial collection of international police-related journals, newsletters and articles, but mainly it contains documentation on the British police, for instance the Metropolitan Police Force, Commissioners Reports, Policing on Scottish Burghs, etc. It also keeps copies of Metropolitan Police Orders dating from 1865 to the 1950s and Justice of the Peace dating from 1863 to 1965. The private papers of Eric St. Johnston and Robert Bartlett are also kept in the Centre, which is open to visitors interested in the topic of policing and for research purposes. Work has started on cataloguing seven of these collections; this catalogue is available online. The Centre has recently acquired exclusive access to the historical papers of the Metropolitan Police Orphanage, and is embarking on a project to catalogue and analyse this research asset. In addition, members of the Centre are currently participating in a number of innovative teaching initiatives, including the production of three new web-based criminology courses in association with Keele University. NOTE: The Centre has recently been grateful to receive several memoirs and collections of policing documents donated by ex-officers. We are keen to house any policing-related archival papers and anyone who has such material available should contact Dr Paul Lawrence (p.m.lawrence@open.ac.uk), in the first instance. last updated July 2009 |
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