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Articles by: Dr Tim Curtis

21st century community engagement: The gap between expectations and reality in neighbourhood policing skills

8th August 2023

Dr Tim Curtis, Executive Director, Intensive Engagement

ANALYSIS: UK police leaders and inspectorates have frequently highlighted the importance of neighbourhood policing, and community engagement is a crucial element to that approach; University of Northampton Associate Professor Dr Tim Curtis, Executive Director of Intensive Engagement, discusses his latest research which surveyed the neighbourhood policing skills of 150 police officers and PCSOs, and how effectively those skills are applied to a real-world policing scenario.

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Dr Tim Curtis
Executive Director, Research & Capacity Building

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Dr Tim Curtis, Executive Director of Intensive Engagement, is an internationally renowned author on social innovation and entrepreneurship, and an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton. Tim developed the Locally Identified Solutions and Practices (LISP) approach to intensive community engagement out of 15 years’ work in decision-making support and systems analysis in complex social contexts. His experience was then rapidly deployed with police and community support officers in Northants Police. Tim has been undertaking detailed research into the development and implementation of the LISP approach since 2012, for which he earned his PhD in June 2021.