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Call for submissions to identify optimal partnerships for community safety and wellbeing

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Envisaging the Future: Dialogues on public health, law enforcement and community solutions

The Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA) and the Centre for LEPH (CLEPH) are reviewing the role of policing and of police-public health partnerships in addressing complex issues with health, criminal justice and social justice impacts, and implications of these responses, over the next 12 months.

The project looks to seize on this critical moment in time and explore the future of police responses to public health issues, and optimal partnerships for community safety and wellbeing. 

The current focus on the role and limits of policing in the US, precipitated by the police killing of unarmed black men, highlights an ongoing global exploration of the best ways to characterize and respond to complex adaptive social issues, currently dealt with in criminalized frameworks. This project will help identify and learn about alternative approaches to the current framework, as well as the barriers and reasons these alternatives are not being implemented.

The aims of the project are to identify, document, showcase and increase accessibility of practical, alternative initiatives designed at achieving community safety and well-being across a wide spectrum of issues and across the world.

The project will include a systematic and structured exploration of existing and potential approaches around community safety and well-being culminating in production of a comprehensive guidance toolkit for a new era of law enforcement and public health partnership. This will include scenarios where public health becomes the primary response for specific social conditions. We will identify, review and curate innovative initiatives to address issues with health and criminal justice impacts and implications, especially those where there is a clear over-reliance on the more punitive and police-focused approaches. Such initiatives comprise a spectrum of partnerships between police, public health, community, and other actors as well as some examples that do not directly involve police.

We will use the 6th International Law Enforcement and Public Health conference (LEPH2021) as a catalyst to conduct the research, present the work, and produce the guidance. A series of online events around initiatives or issues raised in the identified global regions of the project will be held within the first six months of the project, leading up to the conference.

Selected initiatives and programs will be presented online at the LEPH2021 conference (or in a virtual meeting to coincide with the conference) which will mark the halfway point of the project; and in reports about what works and possible ways forward for various issue areas. 

Programs identified through this process will be enrolled in an ongoing, online community of practice that will grow in scale and diversity over time, past the duration of this project, providing a network of inspiration and resources.

We invite you to help identify projects and programs and other initiatives of interest to the project.

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About GLEPHA

The Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA) is a not for profit, membership based association whose Mission is to promote research, understanding and practice at the intersection of law enforcement and public health.        Read more


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Executive Director: Professor Nick Crofts AM
nick.crofts@unimelb.edu.au


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