CEPOL will have the honour to organise the CEPOL Research & Science Conference in partnership with Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania) and for the first time in its history, the Conference will be hosted exclusively online.
Τhe topic for this year could be no other than ‘Pandemic Effects on Law Enforcement Training & Practice: Taking early stock from a research perspective’.
The emergence of the Coronavirus and its pandemic spread across the globe has had a dramatic effect not only on the daily routines of citizens in general, but also on the work of police and other law enforcement bodies and officials in particular. As disruption hit manifold areas of social and business-life, those put in charge of upholding the law and security had to constantly adapt their institutional resources and practices to new and frequently changing regulations introduced to curb the spread of the pandemic disease. The policing of curfew orders, “social distancing” rules or the compliance with wearing obligatory face-masks have become unusual areas of law enforcement attention and were raised as a topic of public scrutiny and debate in many European countries. At the very time when police and other law enforcement bodies had to quickly restructure and re-configure their resources, the opportunity structures for a broad spectrum of criminal offences changed and even became more inviting.
The pandemic crisis has been a challenging new reality for law enforcement bodies and officials across Europe in varying and fluctuating degrees for almost a full year. Decisions had to be taken, experiences have been made institutionally, collectively and on the individual officer’s level, and (first) lessons have been learned about policing and enforcing the law in pandemic times.
Concerned specifically with the professional continuous learning of law enforcement officials in Europe and with the transfer of scientific evidence- and research-based insights and findings from the academic to the professional sphere, CEPOL invites contributions to its online conference event, based on empirical studies on a variety of aspects and topics of policing and enforcing the law during the pandemic crisis and beyond.
Registration: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Registration_CEPOL_MRU_Conference
Source: https://www.cepol.europa.eu/science-research/conferences/2021
