4 October 2005

University to host Policing Symposium

The University of Dundee will host a one-day symposium, 'Policing Scotland in the 21st Century: from local to global challenges' at Discovery Point in Dundee on Friday October 7th.

The symposium brings together leading policing practitioners, policymakers and academics for an event that covers the range from local policing and community safety to hi-tech crime and international terrorism.

Speakers at the symposium will include Tayside Police Chief Constable John Vine, Professor Paul Wilkinson of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, and Graeme Pearson, Director of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency.

One of the aims of the symposium is to give a cross-disciplinary perspective of policing and encourage further links across the sector, bringing together the academic community, practitioners and policymakers.

'The symposium addresses the distinctiveness of policing in a Scottish context but also recognises that many local crime and policing challenges are set within wider national and international contexts,' said Dr Martin Elvins, of the Department of Politics at Dundee.

Dr Elvins and his colleagues Dr Nick Fyfe, Department of Geography, and Dr Anja Johansen, Department of History, have organised the symposium.

Read the full programme for the symposium [word document] or [pdf]. There are limited spaces available for Press to attend the event. Anyone wishing to attend should contact the University of Dundee Press Office, details below.

For more information contact:

Roddy Isles,
Head of Press
Tel: 01382 344910 (out of hours: 07968298585),
Email: r.isles@dundee.ac.uk