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Mexican Trip – Daily Blog Diary

Some of our colleagues were in Mexico and this is blog details their experiences:   Saturday 1st October Tim and I arrived in Mexico City at around 0230 hours UK time following a 13 hour flight from Heathrow. It was already dark so we didn’t get much chance to see...

Feedback is a gift – so try and be grateful.

I had the useful experience last month of being both on the receiving and donating end of feedback.  Let's deal with the 'giving' end first.  I was sitting in my local Volkswagen dealership having just purchased one of their cars.  Ok, ok yes I know that corporately...

Do we need a new strategy on strategy?

We live in interesting times. Whilst not entirely a subscriber to chaos theory, a week of wet and windy weather in the far northwest of the UK finds me in a less than charitable mood towards the butterfly in the jungle of south america that may apparently have been...

Policing with Communities Course

Droman Director Paddy Tomkins works with SEI, Police Scotland and DfID to deliver EUPST Training at St Leonard’s Hall, University Of Edinburgh, Scotland. 17-22 January 2016 SEI in collaboration with Police Scotland, the Stabilisation Unit and the Scottish Institute...

Practices and processes

Presumably there is an optimal point, both individually and collectively, where we benefit to the greatest extent both from the experience we have had and our ability to impart it to others whilst it is still relevant, we are motivated to do so and frankly, before we...

Corruption

We were approached recently to provide advice on how to deal with the reported issue of corruption in policing within parts of the Western Balkans. And it would seem from the below, that greater minds than ours are also seeking to address this issue world-wide....