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What future for Policing? The concept and purpose of policing today.

8th January 2020

Pleased to have my latest paper on policing and police reform published. At a time when there is hot debate around policing, the politicisation of policing and how policing can meet the demands of society today, this article explo ...

Time to Consider What We Want from Policing in 2020 and Beyond

2nd January 2020

The unprecedented attack on the governments record in policing delivered by five ex-Metropolitan police chiefs in just the latest in a long line of calls for the government to fundamentally rethink its approach to policing (htt ...

Placing Victims at The Centre of Policing

3rd July 2018

Placing Victims at The Centre of Policing: Towards a New Concept of Policing in the Caribbean and Latin America.Andy Williams Visiting Lecturer at Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. a ...

Gun Crime in the Caribbean

12th December 2017

The Double Tragedy of Hurricanes and Crime Costs Caribbean Countries Their Young and Risks Their Tourist and Investment $ Andy Williams Managing Director at Andrew Williams Consulting At a time when the world is focussed on t ...

The Costs of Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean

13th February 2017

Despite having 9% of the world population Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) accounts for 33% of the homicides in the world. The reasons behind this startling statistic remain that of social insecurity and criminal justice sy ...

Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks And Why It Matters So Much To Mariners.

28th October 2016

On the 21st October 2016 attackers utilised the, so-called, Internet of Things (IoT) to create the largest single Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack to date. The attackers were able to use millions of passive connected de ...