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E. Halford

Dr. Eric Halford is a distinguished former police officer from the United Kingdom where he held the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. During his service he recieved several commendations for his leadership and dedication. He earned his PhD in Foresnsics and Applied Science in 2018. Since then he has become an acclaimed researcher for his substantial contributions to policing research, particularly within the United Kingdom.

Career

Over the course of his academic career, he has extensively researched and published peer reviewed studies on multiple crime reduction models, but is most noted for his work in advancing optimal foraging theory as a cornerstone of criminology, specifically in the context of crime prevention and reduction. In additon, he is recognised as an informed scholar on policing pandemics due to his research examining the imapct of the coronavirus, COVID-19. He presently works as an assistant professor researching the application of technological innvoations such as virtual reality, artifical intelligence and machine learning within policing.

Awards and recognition

Throughout their career, Halford has been the recipient of several prestigious accolades and recognitions:

• 2023: Received a Certificate of Recognition for their outstanding dedication and research contributions. Notably acknowledged as a leading researcher for their prolific research outputs.
• 2022: Honored with a Certificate of Recognition for their continued dedication and outstanding contributions to research.
• 2019: Recieved the 2019 Tilley Award for their commendable work in the implementation of policing research. Their groundbreaking project on "Using community volunteers to improve online child safeguarding" not only earned them a Q1 peer-reviewed journal article and was seminal in its use of police volunteers to facilitate 2500 safeguarding presentations to children about online safety.
• 2017: He was aprt of a team that developed the Category Winner at the International Serious Play Awards for their innovative creation of a Police "Child Interview Simulator" project. This avant-garde project was orchestrated in collaboration with the Open University and the software developer, High skillz.

Academic Research Publications

Halford, E. (2023). Perspectives on geographical profiling in the United Kingdom. Police Practice and Research, 1-23.

Halford, E. (2023). ‘Two Sides of the Same Coin’—A Proposed Model for Delivering a Whole System Serial Crime Reduction Plan. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 17, paad026.

Halford, E. (2023). A qualitative examination of the implementation of optimal forager inspired crime reduction programs in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 14613557231178152.

Hodgkinson, S., Dixon, A., Halford, E., & Farrell, G. (2023). Domestic abuse in the Covid-19 pandemic: measures designed to overcome common limitations of trend measurement. Crime science, 12(1), 12.

Halford, E. (2023). The impact of COVID-19 on police intelligence reports in the United Kingdom. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 1-19.

Halford, E. (2023). Investigating the police use of stop and search in England and Wales during the coronavirus pandemic. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 74, 100617.

Hussain, A. T., Halford, E., & AlKaabi, F. (2023). The Abu Dhabi Police Virtual Training Centre: A case study for building a virtual reality development capacity and capability. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 17, paad028.

Halford, E. (2023). Linking foraging domestic burglary: An analysis of crimes committed within police-identified optimal forager patches. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 38(1), 127-140.

Halford, E. (2023). A scoping analysis of the counter terrorism command policing structure and its impact on intelligence sharing between the police and the security services. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 18(3), 353-374.

Halford, E. (2023). Criminal justice, risk and vulnerability. In Forensic Psychology, Crime and Policing (pp. 147-153). Policy Press.

McManus, M., & Halford, E. (2023). Policing serious, violent and sexual offending. In Forensic Psychology, Crime and Policing (pp. 241-250). Policy Press.

Boulton, L., Phoenix, J., Halford, E., & Sidebottom, A. (2023). Return home interviews with children who have been missing: An exploratory analysis. Police Practice and Research, 24(1), 1-16.

Halford, E., Dixon, A., & Farrell, G. (2022). Anti-social behavior in the coronavirus pandemic. Crime science, 11(1), 1-14.

Halford, E. (2022). An Exploration of the Impact of COVID-19 on Police Demand, Capacity and Capability. Social Sciences, 11(7), 305.

Halford, E., & Youansamouth, L. (2022). Emerging results on the impact of COVID-19 on police training in the United Kingdom. The Police Journal, 0032258X221137004.

Halford, E. (2022). A case study of police-identified foraging burglary offenders. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 1-15.

Halford, E., & Smith, J. (2022). Operation provide: a multi-agency response to increasing police engagement in cases of intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Police practice and research, 23(5), 600-613.

Halford, E., & Davies, A. (2021). Safeguarding children: early trends of a police school-based intervention program. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(4), 2269-2280.

Halford, E., Dixon, A., Farrell, G., Malleson, N., & Tilley, N. (2020). Crime and coronavirus: Social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime. Crime science, 9(1), 1-12.

Sidebottom, A., Boulton, L., Cockbain, E., Halford, E., & Phoenix, J. (2020). Missing children: risks, repeats and responses. Policing and society, 30(10), 1157-1170.