UCL JILL DANDO INSTITUTE OF SECURITY AND CRIME SCIENCE

Strategic Assessment Masterclass (1 day course)

“The best advice/consultancy support we have ever invested in. It really has made our life [in terms of the production of the SA] so much easier. The advice was so practical” Senior CSP Officer

This one-day masterclass is designed for police, enforcement, and community safety practitioners whose role it is to develop Strategic Assessments. The course explores the key ingredients that should go into a Strategic Assessment and critiques the main approaches for structuring content: ‘crime chapters’; problem oriented approach; and chapters on strategic priorities. The course aims to illustrate to delegates what should be included in a Strategic Assessment, analytical techniques that could be used, and how to determine the strategic priorities.

The JDI has extensive experience in writing and providing guidance on Strategic Assessments, and indeed many of those that are regarded as good practice have had some JDI involvement.

Strategic Assessment Masterclass (1 day course)

Aimed at: Analysts, officers and managers whose role is to either provide support or who are directly responsible for writing the Strategic Assessment and determining strategic priorities.

Course programme details:

• The intelligence development process

We begin by discussing the role that intelligence products should play in informing and influencing decision making - decision-making on what needs to be done and how resources will be used to address the community safety problems.  We then explore the practicalities of this against the production and development of intelligence products, considering the role that problem profiles and tactical assessments should play alongside the strategic assessment.

• The key ingredients for a strategic assessment

Having been involved in every round of Audit, Strategy, and strategic assessment production since 1998 and been involved with the implementation of the National Intelligence Model into policing and CSPs we have seen what works well, and what doesn’t in terms of what should go into a strategic intelligence document that assesses community safety issues.  In this session we discuss these key ingredients, and in so doing set out a template against which to critically review the strategic assessment production process.

• Critiquing the content of strategic assessments

There are generally three different approaches to writing a strategic assessment.  The Crime Chapters approach (with a chapter on each crime, disorder, and ASB type and chapters on other community safety issues), the Strategic Priorities approach (each chapter is based on the previous strategic priorities), and a problem oriented approach (chapters are based on place-based concentrations of crime and priority neighbourhoods; offenders, offending behaviour and offender management; and victimisation, vulnerability, and reassurance).  We critique each type in a group discussion and illustrate the pros and cons of each.

• Data and analysis techniques to use in a strategic assessment

In this session we review the data sets that should be used in a strategic assessment, provide guidance on information sharing and illustrate examples of useful analytical techniques that have been used in several of the best strategic assessments.

• Some top tips

To summarise the day we offer some top tips and a checklist on what to include in strategic assessment.  We offer this as a useful means for carrying out a critical self-assessment of your strategic assessment.
Course tutor: Spencer Chainey

Strategic Assessment Masterclass (1 day course)

July 2010

"Excellent event. Good atmosphere created to feel able to discuss/ask
questions" Police Senior Intelligence Analyst

"Excellent class, has given me a solid base in which to approach my first
SA" CSP Analyst

"The course has raised a lot of very useful questions and thoughts relating
to the production of general products and the SA within my organisation" CSP
Manager

"Opened my mind to alternative approaches for SAs, and other data sets to
use'" Police Senior Intelligence Analyst

"Very useful course" CSP Manager

February 2010

“There is no one else who as far as I’m aware who knows more about the practicalities of intelligence products and what should go into them, than Spencer Chainey!” CSP Manager

“The best advice/consultancy support we have ever invested in. It really has made our life [in terms of the production of the SA] so much easier. The advice was so practical” Senior CSP Officer

“Very informative. I now have an idea as to what a successful strategic assessment should look like, unlike our own!” CSP Manager

“When you ask CSPs who is the best person to speak to about what should go into a Strategic Assessment, they all mention the JDI ” Local Government Association.

Strategic Assessments Masterclass (1 day course)

Course Dates: 

Thursday 4th July 2013

Course Cost: £425 per peson

Group Discount: 10% discount for bookings of two or more

Accommodation: UCL has a number of residences that are available to book when courses are held in the summer months.  These are available from £45 per night.  We recommend Frances Gardner House or James Lighthill House due to their proximity to the JDI and their facilities.  Please visit this site (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/residences/) for more details and to make any accommodation bookings. We advise booking early.  The accommodation is basic, but clean and fantastic value for London.

For something a bit grander we recommend the Cartwright Gardens Apartments:

For short stays: http://www.citybaseapartments.com/uk/london/cartwright-gardens-apartments.php

For longer stays: http://www.studios2let.com/renting/london/bloomsbury/cartwright-gardens.html?lang=en