Policing and Academic Partnerships

Taking a lived experience approach, this chapter outlines the benefits and challenges of police academic collaborative partnership. In particular, the merits of co-problematisation, co-production and industrial impact are explored and research itself is framed as a helical dynamic of praxis which drives improved workplace performance. The balance between known research priorities and anticipating criminal entrepreneunality is explored as an ongoing need for policing practitioners and academic / pracademic researchers. A more proactive, exploratory nature is advocated for the future of partnership collaborations, by moving beyond reactive problem solving and efficacy testing research, thereby influencing a greater culture of enterprise and futurism within policing.