Welcome to the Summer of EBP ☀️ On the understanding that summer isn't done and dusted (it is the UK after all), SEBP is launching the Summer of EBP. And you're invited. The Society of Evidence Based Policing has always been about doing what works, sharing what works, and - when needed - questioning what doesn't. For more than a decade our conferences have brought police professionals together with researchers, companies, charities and others from the public sector. This summer, we want to do much more of that. From June to September, we're delivering a national programme of online and in-person events designed to bring the evidence to life, led by practitioners, for practitioners. It's a significant moment for our movement, and we want you to be part of it. What you can book now Midlands Conference – 24 June, Leicester Cost: Free Hosted at De Montfort University, this one-day event brings together frontline professionals, researchers and leaders to dig into some of the biggest challenges facing UK policing today. You'll hear from speakers including: Paul Taylor – Chief Scientific Adviser, NPCC R. Mark Evans – Deputy Chief Executive (ret), New Zealand Police Professors Ben Bradford and Jonathan Jackson – Leading voices on trust and legitimacy Tickets are live now and going fast 👉 Get your free ticket Easier Said Than Done – Webinar Series Cost: Free Picking up where we left off in April, our Easier Said Than Done series returns with three sessions: 13 June – Hotspots: What Actually Works? 11 July – Problem Solving: From Theory to Practice 17 September – Artificial Intelligence in Policing These sessions are free, online, and packed with practical insight. Last time, we had 400+ people join live—and this time, we're expecting even more. We're partnering with the Youth Endowment Fund in June and July and the International Policing Association in September. 👉 Register for free now National Conference – 10–11 September, Huddersfield Cost: £99 for both days We'll be back at the University of Huddersfield for the 13th annual National EBP Conference—the biggest and best EBP event on the calendar, anywhere in the world. This year we'll be joined by: Dr Amanda Goodall – Expert on evidence-based leadership and decision-making Jonathan Hinder MP – Former police officer now influencing policy And the real stars: Frontline officers and staff presenting work on retail crime, missing persons, gamification, misconduct, stop and search, police productivity and more If you've been before, you know what to expect: real-world relevance, no fluff, and a genuine mix of researchers and practitioners. 👉 Register for priority booking (1-7 June) National EBP Awards – 10 September, Huddersfield Cost: £75 or £65 with conference ticket Also opening for priority booking 1–7 June, our first ever National EBP Awards Dinner takes place at the Cedar Court Hotel. It's a chance to celebrate people and projects making real impact through evidence-based practice. Keep an eye out for more details over the coming weeks, including the awards and nomination process. Global SEBP Conference – 21–22 July, Cambridge Cost: £175 for both days With a lineup that includes David Weisburd, Sir Andy Marsh, Lawrence Sherman, Lorraine Mazerolle, Iain Brennan, and Jerry Ratcliffe, this one speaks for itself. Two days of world-class insight in one of the world's most iconic university cities. 👉 Get your ticket Why this matters Pulling off a decent conference is bloody hard work (I found this out the hard way last year), but SEBP has had it nailed for a long time. Last year's national conference was described as "world class" by more than one person – high praise indeed. This summer, we're building on that foundation: bigger reach, better access, and more ways to learn, connect, and share what works. We know budgets are tight and opportunities for continuous professional development are ever under attack, so we're making these events as accessible as we can. We hope you'll make the most of it – especially if it's raining. What excuse have you got? Just remember to keep an eye on our LinkedIn and check the SEBP Blog for updates. Matt Bland, Chief Operating Officer, SEBP

The task of maintaining public safety has always been complex, today police leaders face a collection of challenges: a continually evolving threat picture, constrained finances, recruitment and retention pressure, an ageing digital infrastructure and a need to improve public trust and confidence. These challenges are compounded by the fact that vast amounts of data, of various types, is now an omnipresent feature of policing and society more broadly. Whether it’s evidence collection, bodycam footage, or the digital exhaust our devices create in our daily lives. Now more than ever technological innovation, and particularly technologies such as AI, present a significant opportunity to help police leaders address these challenges in ways that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. While the trade-off between innovation and maintaining current service provision may be challenging, embracing new technology is often one of the quickest ways to unlocking savings and efficiencies in resource-constrained times. Of course – doing so in a way that has robust responsible and ethical guardrails in place is critical to maintaining and building public trust and confidence. Evidence base policing approaches also have a critical role to play as well in understand, evaluating and promoting what is proven to work. Police forces are already experimenting with innovative technology including AI, showcasing this in action. For instance, forces are trialling and testing new tools on the frontline, including: chatbots to manage non-emergency requests, automated translation, the analysis of crime hotspots and the use of facial recognition. There are a growing number of future applications for AI, especially to help speed up investigations – for example supporting officers in performing procedural activities, as well as rapid analysis of digital evidence. The use of automated transcription and summarisation, support for statement taking, evidence collection, crime report/form completion, and recommendations for next best action could completely transform how investigations are undertaken today. The ability to transform victim support – for example, AI could provide victims with personalised referrals to victim support services based on their needs and location, guide victims through crime reporting processes and automate case management updates and connect them to support services. By offering a more personal, simple and faster experience, victims are far more likely to stay engaged until justice is done. These examples of technical innovation and the use of AI can significantly reduce cognitive burden, put critical information in the hands of frontline officers to support data-driven decision making, and enable a greater focus on the public than administration. By adopting these advancements, policing can truly transform how it works, with an emphasis on bringing officers closer the communities and public that they serve.  How frontline policing harness the power of AI? AI in policing invites both excitement and fear, with the technology’s potential to entrench potential biases, create a dependence on technology, erode critical thinking and create a more remote tech-automated response. But Policing is not alone in taking a cautious approach to the adoption of AI, however that pace of adoption is growing rapidly. Accenture’s research shows that globally, only 2% of organisations have operationalised responsible AI practices, but with a further 31% planning to do so by the end of 2024. Based on over 700 global AI client engagements and our own research, we have identified 5 key imperatives that organisations must address to prepare for AI. Here is what these imperatives mean for policing and public safety agencies: 1. Responsible AI. AI use in policing raises ethical concerns, particularly around privacy, surveillance, and discrimination. Forces must take a human-centred approach and lean on diverse, multi-disciplinary teams to design, deploy, evaluate, and continuously improve solutions to minimise and expose bias. Rigorous guidelines such as the NPCC Covenant for Using Artificial Intelligence in Policing should be continuously adapted to keep up with technological change to inform every stage of AI development, from data collection to deployment.   2. Lead with Public Value. To maximise the benefit of AI, organisations must shift the focus from near-term focus on use cases to prioritising key strategic capabilities across the entire end-to-end service model, using public value, risk, transparency, and trust as the guiding principles to determine what solutions to leverage and invest in. This requires police forces to engage with communities early and often, ensuring AI initiatives align with public needs and expectations – including through active involvement of community representatives, industry, and third sector partners in the design and development of AI tools.  Here to there is a critical role for Evidence Based Policing practices to really learn what works and build that into future deployments. 3.     Establish a secure digital core. For UK policing, widespread challenges related to data quality, legacy systems, and data siloes represent major barriers to AI adoption and scaling. At a national level, forces should collaborate to develop a comprehensive strategy to consolidate and standardise data from diverse sources – incorporating a common set of data standards, access protocols and security markings – to foster seamless interoperability across forces to drive cost savings. Extended across the criminal justice system, such shared standards can enable more effective data sharing to paint a picture of end-to-end system performance and drive enhanced decision-making.   4. Reinvent talent. Our global research shows that despite 96% of workers saying they are ready to learn new skills to work with AI, only 5% of public and private sector organisations are actively reskilling their workforce at scale. Deepening understanding of AI across policing can not only help build trust and unlock innovation, but more broadly, supports the mission to build more digital and data-empowered police forces of the future. To prepare for an AI-enabled future, leaders and policymakers must plan to equip officers and staff with future-proof skills, ranging from prompt engineering and data analysis as well as the ability to work in and increasingly creative and hybrid manner with technology. 5. Drive continuous reinvention. Prioritising ideas and swiftly putting them into action -including through small-scale proof of concepts - is vital for forces to keep up with an ever-evolving technological landscape. These should only focus on safe low-risk use cases, and ultimately, AI should never totally replace human involvement due to the potential risks of using it within a public safety setting. Such experiments can demonstrate the value of AI to officers and staff with clear messaging from police leaders that using it will make their job easier and free them up to focus on citizen facing tasks in their communities. With the public, communicating transparently regarding the AI’s purpose and how the algorithm works (i.e. that it is not in a black box), and explaining the responsible AI safeguards that are in place will be vital to bringing the public with us.  It is also important that these pilot when proven successful, can also be successfully scaled with greater benefits to all.   The role of evidence-based policing in helping to assess the value of innovative technology, the use of AI and fundamentally what works is critical. It is great to see this as a theme at the Society for Evidence Based Policing 2024 Conference in Cambridge where Accenture is excited to be participating. Crucially, such cross-sectoral forums present vital opportunities for diverse exchange and debate on the state of AI and technology innovation across UK policing – and how collectively, we might chart a clear path through the disruption to promote what works and deliver greater benefit to the communities and public that policing serves.   James Slessor, Managing Director UK and Global Public Safety Practice, Accenture

In policing, some of our best innovations come from practical necessity. We see a problem, we adapt, and we act. That’s exactly what happened when  Project Vigilant  was developed—an intelligence-led, proactive approach to tackling predatory behaviours in the Night-Time Economy (NTE). The idea is simple: don’t wait for a serious sexual offence to occur. Instead, identify, disrupt, and manage the behaviours that signal predatory intent before they escalate. But despite the momentum, there’s something missing:  evaluation . We know the approach makes sense. We see it working on the ground. Yet we lack the systematic evidence to prove its effectiveness and understand its true impact. That’s what this article is about—why we need to evaluate  targeted policing of VAWG perpetrators  and how we might go about it. The Rise of Perpetrator-Focused Policing For too long, policing responses to  violence against women and girls (VAWG)  have focused on  victim safety  rather than  offender behaviour . Project Vigilant flips that logic. Instead of telling women to modify their behaviour, it targets those who cause harm— men who display predatory behaviour in the NTE . When the first  Vigilant patrols  were deployed in Oxford, the focus was on tackling a serial ‘creeper burglar’—a man whose offending escalated from  stalking and trespassing  to  sexual assault and rape . But what officers quickly realised was that he wasn’t alone. Multiple men were observed loitering, stalking, harassing women, and ignoring clear rejections. Some had prior convictions for  rape and serious sexual assault . Yet, until that moment, they weren’t on police radars. With funding, training, and a structured risk-assessment process, Project Vigilant was expanded across Thames Valley Police and is now influencing national practice. The approach combines  plain-clothes officers identifying offenders with  uniformed officers intervening —issuing a ‘stop and account’ to challenge behaviour. Those identified are then risk-assessed and managed, with responses ranging from education to active monitoring and enforcement. This is promising, but we still need to ask:  does it actually work? What Are We Trying to Achieve? Before we talk about evaluation, we need to be clear on  objectives . A proactive policing model like this isn’t just about enforcement; it’s about  changing behaviour  and reducing harm. That means we need to assess multiple potential outcomes, such as: Crime Prevention  – Does targeting perpetrators lead to a reduction in serious sexual offences? Disruption of Predatory Behaviour  – Does visible intervention deter offenders from engaging in harassment and stalking? Repeat Offending Rates  – Do those identified through Project Vigilant reappear in the NTE, or does intervention reduce their presence? Public Perceptions of Safety  – Do women feel safer in NTE areas where proactive policing is in place? Operational Impact  – What does this approach cost in terms of policing resources, and is it sustainable? Each of these questions requires  evidence —not just anecdotal reports, but  robust evaluation . How Do We Measure Success? Policing is often unconsciously or consciously reluctant to invest in evaluation because evaluation seen as complex and time-consuming or thought about late in the planning process. At the same time, Evidence-based Policing is too often associated with randomised controlled trials and that can be off-putting due to time, complexity and fears about ethics. But evaluation doesn’t have to be time-consuming or costly. My journey with Vigilant has given me plenty of food for thought about practical evaluation. Here is a popular tactic that resonates with police and politician’s alike, but aside from some exploratory description of statistics we don’t yet know about the effects Vigilant tactics have on the people exposed. Are they deterred from crime? Does the contact have an impact on their perception of confidence in policing? These questions require answers if we are to scale Vigilant. Here’s how we could  practically  assess Project Vigilant initiatives. 1. Descriptive Data Analysis We already collect data on  who is stopped, their risk level, and their behaviours . A deeper analysis of this dataset could provide  insights into patterns and characteristics of our target population , for example, from my own research:    This ‘simple’ description of the home address of Vigilant subjects helps us to shape our follow up service provisions. It also outlines the scale of the threat posed by travelling criminality and emphasises the importance of sources like PND in our toolkit. This, of course is not evaluation – it doesn’t answer the questions posed above, but perspectives like this do give us a baseline from which to begin making those comparisons. 2. Before-and-After Comparisons Using recorded crime data, we could compare  sexual offence rates  in NTE areas before and after Vigilant patrols were introduced. While this isn’t a perfect method (many factors influence crime rates), it gives an indication of impact. Similarly, we might look at an individual level at the people stopped by Vigilant officers and trace differences in their contact before and after. This is likely be limited by low baseline levels of crime in this group of suspects. My research of 378 Vigilant subjects we encountered in Thames Valley showed that we only had prior records of 35% of them. We might balance this by looking at follow up prevalence (the proportion who go on to commit any kind of sexual offence) but by accepted standard, we cannot claim that to be related to Vigilant. 3. Quasi-Experimental Designs For a more structured approach, we could identify  comparison sites —similar NTE locations without proactive patrols—and compare outcomes. This would help isolate the effect of perpetrator-focused policing. Doing this with individuals may prove more problematic because it is not entirely clear how we go about identifying a comparison group. We might look at the usual suspects (age, ethnicity) but these are far from precise enough to account for underlying reasons. This is where strong causal evaluation at an individual level becomes difficult because we don’t know what we don’t know. There may be a perfect comparison group waiting in the nighttime economy, but unless they are stopped by Vigilant officers, we cannot document them, and by stopping them we have made them ineligible to be our comparison group. 4. Longitudinal Tracking Tracking  individuals stopped under Project Vigilant  over time could reveal whether interventions  alter behaviour  or if repeat offending continues. Are offenders flagged in other policing contexts later? Do they receive further safeguarding interventions? If we did this at such a volume, across multiple Vigilant sites and with consistency of data recording, my boffin friends tell me that statistical modelling might be able to provide some insights into what is most related to future offending behaviour. This is unlikely to tell us whether Vigilant is better/worse than business as usual, but it could help us refine the practices of risk assessment and follow up. We need to organise ourselves to collect the right data though. There are a host of things we need to understand about what happens to individuals after they are stopped and about them as individuals. A “Vigilant data template” sounds dry, but it’s not a bad idea. 5. Randomisation? Randomisation doesn’t have to be a choice between Vigilant or nothing. If we consider  Vigilant as a screening tool and think about randomising what we do after a person has been identified, then we have a path to a comparison group. The question is how to do this in an ethical way. Everyone would agree that we need to do something, so our decision becomes more about what we do for different groups, and even, is this an important thing to evaluate? Ethical Considerations: Balancing Rights and Risk Targeting  potential  offenders before they commit a crime raises ethical questions. Some critics argue that stopping individuals  before  an offence is committed amounts to profiling. This is a valid concern, and any evaluation should explore: False positives  – Are innocent people being unnecessarily targeted? Disproportionality  – Are certain groups over-represented in stops? Legal frameworks  – Is this approach aligned with human rights legislation? Good policing balances  proactive risk management  with  individual rights . Evaluating Project Vigilant isn’t just about proving effectiveness—it’s about ensuring it’s  done right . In this respect, I argue that it is important to describe and evaluate what happens with Vigilant subjects. We do need to know what follow up tactics have the best effect after identification, if we are to navigate these issues. Time to Act: The Case for Independent Evaluation The policing profession has a habit of  rolling out new practices without properly evaluating them . Project Vigilant is promising, but if we don’t step back and assess its impact, we risk  missing an opportunity  to refine and scale what works—or correct what doesn’t. We need  independent evaluation , supported by police forces, government, and research partners. Without one, we’re flying blind. If you’re a practitioner, academic, or policymaker interested in this work, let’s  start the conversation . How do we measure success? What data do we need? How can we refine this approach to make women and girls safer while maintaining ethical policing? Project Vigilant showed us that  targeting perpetrators is possible . Now, let’s make sure we’re doing it  effectively . ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tina Wallace KPM is the tactical lead for Project Vigilant, a policing initiative identifying and disrupting predatory behaviour. With 27 years in covert operations, surveillance, and behavioural detection, she champions proactive, evidence-based policing. Committed to intelligence-led interventions, Tina works to prevent violence against women and girls through targeted disruption of offenders. GO FURTHER Watch our Easier Said Than Done episode with Tina and colleagues discussing how to implement Project Vigilant. Read more about Tina's research in Going Equipped.

Of all places, I was in a BP service station when the penny dropped for me that the true measure of SEBP’s ‘success’ was not in its number of members but in the amount of meaningful value those members actually got from being a member. This might seem a rather obvious thing to realise but as anyone in policing will know, it’s easy to get sucked in to the things that are easy to count in front of the things that really matter (zing!).   And so, the idea of the Members’ Hub was born. This was on 23rd October last year. We turned on the Hub this Monday (10th March). In the four months in-between, I have tested our Design Leads’ patience to breaking point but he is a diamond and here we are – SEBP members now have access to their own online space.   The original concept was strikingly simple: create a resource that people can use if they want to find, understand and use evidence in their policing job. The detail of that is rather trickier. SEBP’s 6,000+ members have every sort of policing role there is. The way a neighbourhood sergeant might use evidence is different to how a policy officer might. To cover all that ground, this resource needs to cater for the widest array of problems and scenarios in which practitioners might need to call on evidence.   We are starting simple and not letting “perfect be the enemy of the good”, as the saying goes. At release the Members’ Hub has six ‘things’. They are:   1.        A Knowledge Base: it explains what EBP is to a pretty decent level of detail.   2.        Partner resources: a selection of links to third party sites.   3.        A video library: FINALLY a way to publish all the video content we’ve amassed.   4.        A training course: an 8-hour self-paced video introduction to EBP program.   5.        A member impact survey: so we can gather info on what we do and demonstrate the impact of it.   6.        A way to change your ‘account profile’, including adding a pic and bio.   My inner perfectionist considers this to be a rather modest selection of resources but, it’s a start and it took a lot of love for it to exist. I am super-grateful to our brilliant team of volunteers, led by the Home Office's James Watson on this project. Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy at the Youth Endowment Fund has also been instrumental in making this happen and we'll be working close with YEF and other partners on developing this resource in future.   In fact, new features will start to appear quite quickly.   We (well, I – the Design Lead needs some persuading) have plans for a community area where members can interact with each other. For almost it’s entire existence the best benefit of SEBP has been the networking opportunity it affords and we want to bring this into the Hub and replicate the types of connections people have made at our events over the years. We envision a forum and the ability to join topic and geographical discussion groups. We’ll supplement this with spaces for organisations to post EBP-related jobs and research opportunities .   We’re also developing applications aimed at opening up the evidence-base to a wider audience. The first of these is a project that our technology partner, CGI , is managing for us and we aim to launch that in the autumn at our national conference (tickets available soon).   For now, were starting small and hoping to grow steadily. Wherever we go in future we want to put the members at the heart of the functions we build into the hub so that it can be truly useful and not just for show. So let me know what you want to see and we’ll try to make it happen quickly. In the meantime – please go check it out and let us know what think: https://www.sebp.police.uk/members-hub   Thanks and enjoy!   Matt

The past year has seen many developments in EBP. From cutting-edge trials to systematic reviews, research in 2024 has provided actionable insights for practitioners. The problem is, there are too many, scattered too far and wide to keep up. So, to make things a bit easier, here’s a recap on some of the headlines from impact studies that came out this year. The studies discussed here are ones I’ve come across personally using unsystematic methods—they don’t represent a comprehensive review of the field; I encourage you to explore further ( https://www.college.police.uk/support-forces/practices is a great place) and apologies to any authors of groundbreaking research that I’ve missed out. In the list below I’ve tried to tease out some practical implications and just as importantly, the limitations of the research are also noted. With that in mind, here are 10 interesting ‘what (definitely, maybe, not sure tbh) works’ findings from 2024. Potentially Game-Changing Insights: Promising Evidence with Clear Applications   1. Mobile Apps to Boost Hotspot Policing A trial with Thames Valley Police tested a mobile tasking app, which almost doubled officer patrol time, as measured by GPS. While meaningful reductions in violent crime weren’t observed, the intervention shows how digital tools can optimize resource allocation efficiently. Read further if: you are looking to enhance patrol efficiency or integrate scalable tech solutions into daily operations But look out for:  the lack of violent crime reductions in this study and challenges in applying the model to areas with low levels of existing crime. Report 2. Training Reduces Use of Force and Injuries In Avon & Somerset, scenario-based training involving more than 1,800 officers reduced civilian injuries by 33% and use-of-force incidents by 8-11%. This highlights the potential of realistic, conflict-focused training to improve public interactions and officer accountability. Read further if: you need evidence for prioritizing training programs aimed at reducing harm during police encounters. But look out for:  the single-force context of the study, which limits generalisability, and the lack of long-term follow-up to measure sustained effects. Report 3. Private Security Lowers Sexual Misconduct in Train Stations A trial across 51 train stations in England and Wales found that deploying enhanced private security undertaking proactive engagement reduced incidents of unwanted sexual behaviour and violence by 66%. This demonstrates the effectiveness of focused security interventions in high-footfall public areas. Read further if: you manage public spaces and need strategies to improve safety and reduce specific types of crime. But look out for:  the study’s narrow focus on specific behaviours and its inability to address broader crime prevention or displacement effects. Report Promising Ideas, More Research Needed: Evidence with Potential for Scaling   4. Mindfulness Improves Officer Well-Being Police officers who participated in mindfulness programs reported modest reductions in stress and burnout. This could be a low-cost, impactful approach to improving officer mental health and resilience under pressure. Read further if : you are looking to implement mental health initiatives for police staff that are evidence-backed and scalable. But look out for:  the reliance on self-reported outcomes and small sample sizes, which limit the strength of the findings. This review also only found a handful of studies and none yet in the UK. Report     5. Health-Based Diversion for Young Offenders The Gateway Conditional Caution trial in Hampshire focused on health and well-being rather than punishment for around 400 low-level offences. While long-term impacts on reoffending are unclear, the approach highlights the potential of multi-agency collaborations to address vulnerabilities. Reported health indicators in the diversion group were improved. Read further if : you are exploring diversion programs to tackle underlying health and social drivers of low-level offending. But look out for:  high attrition rates and the challenge of replicating such programs without strong multi-agency partnerships. Report 6. Educating Children on Online Safety The ThinkUKnow program (a 60–90-minute classroom session by police) improved children’s understanding of online risks by 25%. However, behavioural changes were less evident, suggesting the need for stronger emphasis on practical skills and broader support networks. Read further if: you are delivering educational programs on online safety and need a structured, police-led model. But look out for:  the limited behavioural impact and ensure future programs address risky behaviours directly. This is not a UK-based study so we don’t know yet what the effects will be here. Report Emerging Evidence: We Need More Research   7. Victim Communication Matters A trial in Israel found that callbacks from investigators significantly improved victim satisfaction compared to letters or calls from other personnel. Procedural justice callbacks though had mixed results. Read further if: you are developing victim engagement strategies and need evidence on effective communication practices. But look out for:  the study’s single-region (non-UK) context and the mixed results for different communication approaches. Report 8. Predictive Policing: Proceed with Caution A review of 161 Predictive policing studies has shown very little real-world testing (just six of the 161!). Where there was, results showed localized successes in reducing property crime but not violent crime. None of the studies addressed ethical concerns, including algorithmic bias and over-policing. Read further if: you are considering predictive tools and need insights into their potential benefits and risks. But look out for:  limited evidence on long-term effectiveness and the risk of public trust erosion without transparency. Report 9. Police-Security Collaboration Enhances Productivity Collaboration between police and private security (at five large train stations) increased proactive crime management efforts but didn’t reduce overall crime. Partnerships need clearer goals and evaluation frameworks to justify investments. Read further if: you are working on police-security collaboration models and want to enhance resource utilization. But look out for:  the lack of direct crime reduction evidence and potential misalignment of goals between agencies. Report 10. Tailored Early Intervention Versus Reoffending Risks Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (delivered by Liaison and Diversion practitioners) in police custody has been tested in Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS region. Around 450 participants were randomly assigned to receive tailored interventions aimed at  reducing reoffending among young people. The trial is due to report any time now. Read further if: you are designing youth interventions that address emotional and psychological needs rather than focusing solely on punitive measures. But look out for:  the results aren’t in yet! Report If you want to read further on any of these but can’t access the papers because of paywalls, let us know. We can help get in touch with the authors to see if they have any Christmas spirit!

By ‘Phil Corkhill’ (and Sarah Charman)   In 30 years in policing, I (‘Phil’) worked alongside good people, many of whom aspired to be modern, forward-thinking leaders. You wouldn’t necessarily think it if you saw them over-obsessing with operational micromanagement, at the expense of organisational development. I experienced everyday police leadership styles that routinely contradicted espoused values of being progressive, supportive and open to change. I personally learnt more by delivering the Senior Leadership Development Programme on my College of Policing secondment than any other time. I was confident that I could offer something different on my return to force. Despite 2½ years of honing my leadership knowledge, I found that I quickly reverted and conformed. An overpowering authoritarian regime socialised me, and presumably many others who privately disclosed a desire for something different, to deliver tired and well-trodden cultural norms. All of the above becomes a problem when policing is under such pressure to reform. Internet enabled crime, prioritising vulnerability, and high-profile examples of unethical behaviour all contribute to leadership challenges. Forces have responded in the best way they know – by improving processes. Better vetting deters dishonesty in promotion applications, action plans improve disparity figures between diverse communities, and Professional Standards teams investigate misogyny allegations. However, demonstrating zero-tolerance towards extreme manifestations of policing cultures externalises the issue, disregarding the need for a complete 180°. It overlooks how broader police cultures enabled a chief constable to lie about previous work experience or how a serving police officer used their position to abduct, rape and murder a woman. We recognise that addressing these extremes has to be a priority, but discounting the subtler cultures that underpin them risks disregarding their prevalence and persistence. More importantly, process fixes serve as a distraction. This is ‘leadership theatre’ in action. ‘Leadership theatre’ is at the heart of our article. “Leadership becomes theatre when leaders and followers mutually and tacitly accept that the impression of control and effectiveness is as, if not more, important than actual delivery.” (Corkhill & Charman, 2024). Despite attempts to remain authentic, I found myself socialised to deliver the associated meeting structures and strategies. We do not contest their utility as a necessary part of the managers’ toolkit, but we do question whether there is over-reliance on them as a solution in their own right. Incessant meetings, the seniority and numbers of attendees, and including a range of partner agencies all seemed to matter more than actual delivery. Long hours, overt displays of busy-ness and a plethora of largely superficial documents provided standalone reassurance of operational ‘grip’. So what does all of this mean for evidence-based policing? We believe that there are a couple of things at play. The first important challenge can be described as a research bias paradox. Those who need to lead police reform are the ones immersed in a notoriously insular world, full of cultural blind spots. They seek support from researchers, many of whom are current or ex-police officers. Universities collaborate with forces to give the service what it wants and will have impact – but too much of what it wants sits within its comfort zone – statistics and charts that can be used to deliver process improvement. Combine all this with extensive, publicly available, numerical data and it should come as no surprise that such a high proportion of police research is quantitative and operationally driven – or is it?  The second issue is not that qualitative research is rare, more that it has been largely ignored by policing. Few sectors benefit from organisational socialisation and culture research that is so specific, so extensive or so consistent. It is the impact of this research on operational policing that is conspicuous by its absence. This is important when the required reform and the barriers to it are culturally based. If left unchallenged, being seen to respond to quantitative research can fuel ‘leadership theatre’ and allow the subjective experience of those affected to slip under the radar. Stop and search figures, victim update frequency and diversity quotas all bypass the human factor. Public reaction to recent events could not deliver a clearer message – required police reform is less about the what, and far more about the why and the how. This must be supported by more qualitative research. A recent meta-analysis adds weight to arguments that changing people to improve cultures is incredibly difficult (David et al., 2024). If improving processes, training and promoting organisational values are ineffective, then policing needs an alternative. We find Hatch and Cunliffe’s (2013) proposed shift in approach particularly relevant. They suggest that to deliver change, leaders must consider the desirable behaviours in the context of existing cultures and actively incorporate mitigating cultural inhibitors into change programme design. This can only happen when police cultures research is recognised and leaders accept their individual part in it. Our article is autoethnographical and highly reflective. I attempt to take responsibility for my contribution towards perpetuating organisational norms. It has been described as ‘brave’, which provides its own insight into perceptions of psychological safety in policing. We wrote the piece because we believe that decades of high quality external academic observation will only have impact when responsibility to do something with it is accepted by the police service. Time will tell whether other police leaders are prepared to become introspective and own their part in perpetuating cultures or if the ‘show goes on’.   Corkhill , P. (Pseudonym), & Charman, S. (2024). The show must go on! An autoethnography of (re)socialization into senior policing in England and the prominence of “Leadership Theatre.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography . https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416241271282 David, L., Vassena, E., & Bijleveld, E. (2024). The unpleasantness of thinking: A meta-analytic review of the association between mental effort and negative affect. Psychological Bulletin , 150 (9). https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000443 Hatch, M. J., & Cunliffe, A. L. (2013). Organization theory : Modern, symbolic, and postmodern perspectives (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Later this month I’ll clock up the magic (but entirely arbitrary) 100 days in post as SEBP’s Chief Operating Officer. It’s been a steep learning curve that’s included juggling our annual conference with balancing getting to grips with a whole new remit with entertaining children through the long summer holidays. Hard work but rewarding and the fog has begun to clear on the short, medium and long-term direction of travel for the charity, so that's what I want to tell you about this time.   The biggest accomplishment so far, and one which is certainly not mine alone, has been the very successful SEBP2024 conference we held in Cambridge in September. The feedback we received was incredible. 80% of attendees told us it added a great deal or a lot of value to their day-to-day work. We know this because we evaluated it, naturally. The conference is emblematic of SEBP’s journey in its first decade and a bit. It’s run professionally by people volunteering their time for the cause and it enables people with an interest in the field to meet, discuss and think about applied research. This is what SEBP exists for – to help people working in and around policing to use, produce and communicate evidence to make policing better.   The problem is that the annual conference is bloody hard work, and it only reaches a few hundred people live. It’s great value for those who can attend, but we have more than ten times that many members and hope to have many, many more in future. Sharing our recordings of the conference sessions on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@sebp-uk , means those who cannot be there don’t miss out entirely. But we could be doing a lot more so that we reach more people more often and add more value to their practice.   Enter the Theory of Change methodology...   For those not familiar, Theory of Change is the Tenet (Christopher Nolan film, look it up) of planning tools. You start at the end and work backwards. You can find a preview of ours below, and I’ll be sharing more details on our website shortly.   For now, the key points I want to explain are:   1.        SEBP exists to provide police practitioners with the skills, knowledge, tools, imperative and community resources they need to do their jobs in evidence-informed ways.   2.        To do this, SEBP needs to focus most of its activity on providing value for its existing members .   We know we can do more for our members than we currently do and correcting this is top of the to-do list. The immediate vehicle for this will be.....   When launched, this will be far more exciting than my half-baked attempt at a logo might suggest (our Design Lead will conjure a more professional one by then). The Hub will be an exclusive online space (via www.sebp.police.uk ) where our members can access resources to help them whatever their role in policing is. The initial release, which will be ready by January 2025, will include:   Exclusive articles ‘Get Started’ guides              Free training courses Videos from all our past events Signposting to other EBP resources Templates for presentations and lessons on EBP   The Hub will be a live tool and we’ll be integrating Apps, community features and more soon after launch.   There will be lots more to come from SEBP beyond the Hub but for now, it’s my number one priority and I would love to hear from you about what you would like to see there. In the next couple of weeks, members will get a very short survey from us to help us establish a baseline that we can use to track the effectiveness of these tools and it will include space for you to tell us what you’d like, but don’t wait until then to talk to me because the first build is happening right now. You can get in touch with me at coo@sebp.police.uk .   Until next time,   Matt

Ruth Halkon, Police Foundation In a 2018 lecture, Professor Larry Sherman gave “two cheers” for evidence-based policing . While individual officers were talking about evidence-based policing and testing its ideas, a ‘tipping point’, where it had become mainstreamed into police organisational culture and governance, was some way off. With the 2024 Society of Evidence Based Policing annual conference, that tipping point is within reach. Over two days, more than 200 delegates from 91 different organisations and nine different countries gathered in the Law Faculty in the Sidgwick site in Cambridge, incidentally the venue for Sherman’s lecture, to share the latest developments in policing practice. The two-day conference, held in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, showed policing research is no longer something being done to police officers with little bearing on their day-to-day practice. It is being done by police officers, working with academics and other partners, to solve real world problems and is making a real difference to the life outcomes of those they serve.   Innovative technologies Rapidly evolving crime types, enabled by the democratisation of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, have opened up new possibilities for criminals, and also new opportunities for detection and deterrence that the police cannot afford to ignore. Yet, as SEBP Chair Alex Murray and Jacob Verrey of Cambridge University told the conference, while there are huge productivity gains to be made, police forces must ensure they are led by the evidence, not by the technology. Otherwise, they risk investing in technologies which are not suited to the intended task, or do not work, or which may actively lead to discrimination and disproportionality, or worse –  such as in the case of Lobna Hemid who was killed by her husband after Spanish algorithm VioGén suggested she was safe. Her brother later said: “the computer has no heart.” It is the job of the individual human to be that heart. An excellent example of innovative practice grounded in procedural justice is Dorset Police’s recently launched Enhanced Video Response (EVR), which drew on the success of Rapid Video Response in Kent Police. Chief Constable Amanda Pearson and Superintendent Stewart Gates described how the intervention, which was tested during a three-month randomised controlled trial, aimed to address the long delays in responding to non-emergency calls for service. Trained response officers, who were on adjusted duties, offered victims who met the criteria the option of an immediate response via video, as opposed to waiting hours if not days for an in person visit. The pilot showed marked improvements in efficiency and response times, as well as increases in the confidence of victims. A blueprint has now been produced and EVR is being rolled force-wide.   International perspectives The evidence-based policing movement is growing globally, with thriving societies in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Holland, the US and now Sweden. Benny Maelberg of the Swedish Police Authority shared lessons on how to embed EBP into “the very DNA of the police organisation,” through a process of building a research base and them creating a framework to ensure staff and leadership embrace an evidence-based worldview. This is done through ensuring the most appropriate research designs are used, that findings are translated into a language comprehensible to frontline policing and that EBP is taught as part of basic training. A presentation from ANZ SEBP Global Collaborations Lead Simon Williams showed that while the policing systems and structures may be different, human behaviour remains the same. Thus lessons can be learned from police forces worldwide. He outlined three randomised controlled trials which examined different ways of enabling offenders to do the right thing. One, carried out by New Zealand Police, applied the nudge theory to create a targeted intervention to make it easier for individuals to follow a process. Simplifying the bail notice to make it clearer where defendants had to be and when led to a 15 per cent decrease in failure to appear at court. It also changed cultures and mindsets around adopting evidence-based practice, as feedback loops meant officers could see in real time the benefits of the new approach.   Spreading innovation Nerys Thomas of the College of Policing showed how rapidly evidence-based policing has gained traction in the past decade. Through the Crime Reduction Toolkit and the Practice Bank , good ideas are being locally evaluated, and then replicated, and then shared so that other forces can copy them. One of these is Right Care Right Person , an approach first formulated in Humberside and now replicated across the country, which is about giving those in need timely access to support that is compassionate and meets their needs. Home Office researcher Dr Olivia Hambly said a process evaluation showed considerable savings in officer hours, but also that the intervention was most successful when it was carried out working with stakeholders in an open, transparent way. One glaring absence from the Practice Bank however, is an intervention that hasn’t worked. Yet as Professor Jason Roach from the University of Huddersfield told the conference, a lot can be gained through learning from failure. It is commonly believed, he said, the best thief takers have an almost clairvoyant ability to spot a crook. Rather than being innate however, this ability is developed through a process of predicting likely outcomes, observing actual outcomes and revising conditional probabilities – in other words, being prepared to fail repeatedly and learn from mistakes to better identify the few that have criminal intentions. The main challenge for policing now, with the loss of experienced officers, is how to expedite this learning process so it doesn’t take five years on the job to learn the job. Violence prevention An important example of how evidence-based practices can be used to train people in what is normally learned from experience is Thames Valley Police’s Project Vigilant . Detective Inspector Tina Wallace shared with the conference how she had applied knowledge learned in Counter Terrorism Policing and covert intelligence to teach officers to identify and disrupt potential offenders in the nighttime economy. Plain clothed spotters were trained to spot predatory offending behaviour such as loitering and aggressive persistence to stalking, and then uniformed officers engaged with each man identified to interrupt their behaviour. As well as disrupting offending, the project built up a picture of common traits and modus operandi of predatory offenders, and helped build safer public spaces. Diversion and prevention We are in a time when many of the headlines surrounding policing and the criminal justice system are grim. Charge rates are dire and need to improve, but if more people are jailed the prison system will collapse. But as the growing literature around diversion shows, there is another way. As presentations from Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy from the Youth Endowment Fund and Claire Ely from the Centre for Justice Innovation stated, a first offence does not necessarily mean someone will be a persistent offender and it is impossible to tell at that stage who will grow out of crime and who will not. Diversion not only improves the outcomes for young people, some of whom will be victims of crime as well as suspects, it can also save a considerable amount of money . The Metropolitan Police’s Chief Inspector Kate Bradley described how she piloted a new approach to victims of serious violence in London by setting up a dedicated police team based at the Royal London Hospital. Embedding a Trauma Support Team has led to higher charge rates, improved intelligence and safeguarding and prevented revictimisation. As Dr Peter Neyroud told the conference, such initiatives can offer “uplifting sources of hope” to the beleaguered criminal justice system. But diversion can only be done differently if it is properly funded – and as Sarah Carlsen-Browne of Devon and Cornwall Police pointed out, people at the centre are not yet brave enough to fund it. Next steps The conference closed with a challenge from SEBP Chair Alex Murray . Each individual delegate, especially if they are serving officers, has a responsibility to bring back what they have learned, either through replicating trials, or influencing their wider understanding of how policing operates as part of a system. Murray urged attendees to: “Grab one thing that took your fancy. It might be holding an event or using behavioural science or role out EVR, or if you have a problem, apply an evidence-based approach to solving it. Speak to your boss. Do it.”

Matt Bland, Chief Operating Officer, SEBP Since the COVID lockdowns my podcast consumption increased a lot -  I suspect this is not unique to me. One of those I was initially drawn in by was Steven Bartlett’s Secret Diary of a CEO (I have since gone off it, sorry, Steven). So, when it came to starting my own blog about my activities as a COO, this title was inevitable even if the subject matter is entirely different.   The aim of this blog, which I’ll publish every two months, is to illuminate what’s going on behind the scenes with the Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) and its mission to improve UK policing through the proliferation of evidence-based decision making.   In the job advert for my new job (COO stands for Chief Operating Officer), the policing world was described as ‘messy’. That’s shorthand for ‘extremely complex, demanding, fast-moving and under resourced’. Decisions often have life-changing consequences and can play out in the full glare of the public eye. Meanwhile, creating an evidence-base through rigorous research requires patience, meticulous planning and design, and technical understanding of scientific and research principles. So, making policing more evidence-based is no stroll in the park. In fact, professionally it is probably my personal Everest and that is why I wanted this job.   Preparing to climb   As people who have been to one of my lectures will attest, I like to pursue an extended metaphor as far as I can. Please indulge me, while I repeat this habit here because I think the analogy of a steep climb has a lot of synergy with the SEBP mission. One key difference though is that when it comes to the EBP Everest, no-one has even seen more than a glimpse of the summit. We know it’s there though and we have an idea about the way up.  We know the route will be full of challenges too. Here are some of those I think we’ll find along the way.   1. Resource constraints   Just as climbers of the real Everest must work with limitations on oxygen and provisions, SEBP is going to have to work within the constraints of available volunteer capacity and funding. Effectively using what resources it has, not least the precious time of its volunteers, is essential. A big part of my job will be securing sustainable income and building strong partnerships with police forces, universities, and companies to ensure we do this. We want to grow the SEBP operation to enable it to support more police forces and personnel on their own climbs.   2. Harsh conditions   The culture of policing values experience, quite justifiably. In the metaphor, the culture is the weather we will have to deal with. Resistance to change is nothing new in policing, and neither are anti-academic sentiments. To overcome these SEBP is going to have to focus on clear communication of tangible benefits while being faithful to scientific principles. This is a tricky balance to strike and we’ll be testing out different ways of doing it so see what works best.   3. Having a thorough plan but be ready to change it   To manage the climb effectively we need to have a well thought out route that is flexible in view of conditions. I’ve been working on this plan for weeks before I even arrived at the base camp of my first day in post. My aim is to present this plan to the SEBP Conference in Cambridge University on 11th and 12th September. I’ll update regularly on progress against it in this blog series.   Imagining the summit   We have an idea of what an evidence-based practice culture looks like from other professions but in policing we really don’t yet know what it looks like in detail. For now, we need to focus on the climb itself, the things we need to do to make sure we keep ascending safely. The rest will take care of itself. These activities are easier to pin down. We want our membership to expand, not just in numbers but in participation. We want to be much more active online, sharing information and connecting people interested in EBP. We want to provide value to our members through events, both in person and online, and other services. All these activities will require a robust and sustainable infrastructure to manage, and here is where a Chief Operating Officer comes in.   So, you can see, there is plenty to do and we’re only just setting off. SEBP was established 12 years ago and has achieved remarkable things. I hope the next few years will mark a new phase in its mission as we leave base camp and take on some steep slopes. I hope you’ll come back to read more about the adventure (and I promise, I won’t use this metaphor again!).   See you again in two months.

We're excited to release the full programme for our annual conference, "What Works for the Frontline?" taking place in Cambridge on September 11th and 12th - scroll down for the list of speakers and sessions. This year's conference is a unique collaboration with the University of Cambridge's Institute of Criminology, merging our respective summer events into a single, impactful gathering. The comprehensive programme promises to equip attendees with actionable insights and strategies to enhance their frontline policing efforts. Key highlights include: International perspectives: Learn from evidence-based policing practices in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden, exploring potential applications in the UK. Innovative technologies: Discover the potential of video response in handling non-emergency calls through a randomised controlled trial. Violence prevention: Examine effective approaches to tackling violence against women and girls, including disrupting predatory behaviour in the nighttime economy and using sexual risk orders. Diversion and prevention: Explore best practices in police diversion programmes and the role of interventions in hospital settings. Cybercrime and fraud: Gain insights into evidence-based approaches to cybercrime from the National Cyber Crime Unit and learn how big data can be leveraged to target fraud victimisation. This landmark collaboration between SEBP and the University of Cambridge's Institute of Criminology signifies a united front in promoting evidence-based policing. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, the conference aims to bridge the gap between research and practice, ensuring that frontline policing is informed by the latest evidence and best practices. As ever, we have limited capacity, so book your ticket before they sell out: https://www.sebp.police.uk/events/conference24 Day 1 - Wednesday 11th September 2024 Time Title Speaker(s) 09:15 Registration with tea and coffee 10:00 Welcome and introductions Alex Murray , SEBP Chair & Peter Neyroud , University of Cambridge 10:10 Three insights from evidence-based policing in Australia and New Zealand: (1) Procedural justice and police-to-court bail compliance: a behavioural science approach (NZ Police) (2) Operation Capesso: a focused deterrence program (Victoria Police) (3) Nudging repeat offenders: a field experiment (Queensland Police) Simon Williams , KPMG Australia 10:40 Enhanced Video Response (EVR): Responding to non-emergency calls for service by video – a randomised controlled trial Amanda Pearson, Steve Lyne & Stewart Gates, Dorset Police 11:10 Evaluating the implementation of Right Care, Right Person Olivia Hambly & Pamela Hanway , Home Office 11:40 Break with tea and coffee 12:00 Everyone, everywhere, all at once Diane Gutiw & Nick Dale , CGI 12:30 Morphing street craft into evidence-based policing Jason Roach , University of Huddersfield 13:00 Lunch 13:40 The notable interventions: From innovation to what works for the frontline Nerys Thomas , College of Policing 14:10 Three approaches to tackling violence against women and girls: (1) A study into public crime space in Sutton (2) Disrupting predatory behaviour in the night-time economy (3) Tracking, testing, and targeting sexual risk orders (1) Abu Ullah , Brent Council (2) Tina Wallace , Thames Valley Police (3) Dan Whitten, Met Police (Chair) Nick Dean , Cambridgeshire Constabulary 15:10 Moving from evidence-based policing to evidence-based oversight Paul Dawson , MOPAC 15:40 Break with tea and coffee 16:05 Mindset and methodology: Advancing research and behavioural science in the Met Police Liz Ward , Kent McFadzien & Eleanor Prince , Met Police 16:50 Breakout sessions: (1) How to start your own SEBP and embed it in policing (2) The mental health crisis in frontline policing: Mapping the 5-year trends and future impacts (3) Developing data science in MOPAC: The future of evidence-based oversight (1) Benny Maelberg, Swedish Police & Simon Williams , KPMG Australia; (Chair) Peter Neyroud (2) Emily Quin , University of Cambridge; (Chair) Neil Ralph (3) Anthony DuGuay , MOPAC; (Chair) Alex Murray 18:30 Drinks reception and dinner (served at 19:30), St John’s College David Halpern (Speaker) Day 2 - Thursday 12th September 2024 Time Title Speaker(s) 08:30 Tea and coffee 09:00 Welcome and introductions Neil Ralph, SEBP Vice Chair 09:05 A message from our new Chief Operating Officer Matt Bland , SEBP COO 09:10 Doing diversion effectively Sarah Carlsen-Browne , Devon & Cornwall Police & Peter Neyroud , University of Cambridge; Claire Ely, Centre for Justice Innovation (Chair) Stevie-Jade Hardy , Youth Endowment Fund 10:10 Knife/gun crime prevention activity in hospitals Katie Bradley, Met Police 10:40 Break with tea and coffee 10:55 Expanding the evidence base: 360° value in policing and rehabilitation James Slessor , Accenture 11:05 Evidence-based, not technology-based: Approaches to AI Alex Murray , SEBP Chair & Jacob Verrey , University of Cambridge 11:35 Lockbit, behavioural science and evidence-based policing in cyber Paul Foster, National Cyber Crime Unit 12:05 Targeting fraud victimisation with big data Rich Sinclair, City of London Police 12:35 Closing comments Alex Murray , SEBP Chair 13:00 Conference ends; grab-and-go lunch bags available If you're interested in sponsoring the conference, please contact secretary@sebp.police.uk to find out about the different ways you can get involved.

The countdown is on! In just three days, the Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) will be hosting its flagship summer event at the prestigious Royal Society in London. With over 175 guests expected to attend, this is shaping up to be a landmark gathering for those passionate about the future of policing. Last few tickets available here! What's on the agenda? Get ready for a deep dive into the critical topics of legitimacy and procedural justice. We're thrilled to announce that the 2024 Stockholm Prize in Criminology winners, Professor Tom R. Tyler and Professor Gary LaFree (pictured above), will be joining us all the way from the US to deliver keynote speeches. But that's not all. A lineup of leading thinkers and practitioners will be sharing their insights and expertise throughout the day. From exploring the role of procedural justice in fighting crime to understanding how to build trust and confidence in the police, this event promises to be a thought-provoking and informative experience. Agenda Who should attend? This event is a must-attend for anyone working in policing, government, or academia who is interested in the latest research and best practices in building trust and legitimacy. Whether you're a seasoned officer, a policymaker, or a researcher, you'll find valuable takeaways to apply to your work. Don't miss out! With only three days remaining, now is the time to secure your spot. Remember, SEBP members enjoy a discounted ticket price, so if you haven't already, consider joining our community of evidence-based policing enthusiasts and securing your ticket. For any questions or further information, please don't hesitate to contact us at secretary@sebp.police.uk. We look forward to welcoming you all!

We've finally done it.  We've dragged the Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) into the 21st century with a shiny new website. Think of it as your one-stop shop for everything EBP, including questionable PowerPoint presentations. Here's what we've cooked up: Simple, accessible design:  Clean, uncluttered, and easy on the eyes. We've made sure finding the information you need is as painless as possible. Events past and present: Whether it's a local EBP gathering or a major conference, our events section will soon have you covered. Extensive resources: Dive into a curated collection of EBP resources from our partners. And here's what's in the pipeline: Blog posts you'll actually want to read: From guest contributors to our own team, we'll be sharing insights and opinions that will make you think. Members' area: This exclusive club is coming soon, so start practicing your secret handshake. Video and presentation archive: Relive the glory days (or just catch up on what you missed) with our upcoming archive of media from past events. This is just the beginning. We're constantly tinkering and improving, so don't be surprised if you see even more exciting features popping up soon. So, what are you waiting for? Explore our new website and the future of EBP. And if you have any feedback, please get in touch. We promise we won't take it personally (unless it's about our questionable PowerPoint skills).