Professor John Coxhead
Hourly Paid Lecturer
Police Learning and Development
, Royal Docks School of Business and Law
John is a policing educationalist and twice winner of the Queen's Award in Innovation in Police Learning and Development.
He holds professorial roles at Loughborough and Keele Universities and is external examiner at Manchester Metropolitan University (MA Applied Criminology) and at the University of Wales (TSD) MSC Police Leadership.
He also works as Principal Researcher for the East Midlands Police Academic Collaboration (EMPAC) within the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) and is a columnist with Police Professional, the UK's biggest-selling policing publication.
Areas Of Interest
His primary research interests surround policing, particularly around enabling innovation and learning environments. He is the founder of the UK Innovation in Policing annual competition and is keen to create a 'Silicon Valley' centre for policing innovation and enterprise in the UK.
The PIEL Centre
The PIEL Centre has an ambition to be the global Silicon Valley for policing. This means driving creativity, ingenuity and strategic intelligence for tomorrow's challenges proactively so that policing is not having to constantly reacting to emergencies it had not anticipated.
Getting upstream is about optimising ingenuity through technology, dynamic analytics and designing solutions that are future fit, to support a mindset of performance that is holistic and utilises every capacity and capability for ultimate effectiveness. Being future orientated is all about being a smart public service of the 21st century, where the service mission is to keep communities safe proactively, and not simply trying to cope with outstretched demand.
PIEL's vision for the future is that we move beyond reacting to failure to influencing future success. We will achieve that by working together on solution focused policing, where 'what good looks like' inspires our vision and our tactics are operationalised by using ideas ahead of their time to invent now technology and field products for dynamic use.