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10,000 volts delivers the Launch of a Hate Crime Conference in Manchester. Today 200 people from partnerships and communities visited the Town Hall in Manchester to participate in a Hydra 10,000 volts conference which was aimed at engaging and...
Harrow policing borough sponsored a 10,000 volt workshop looking at progress with its MASH. The MASH has now been running for two months and the workshop looked at progress and tensions. The data is currently being analysed, however interesting trends have emerged looking at overlaps with so...
Hydra Operations ran a 10kv event looking at Gang Crime. An initial event working with Hackney Integrated Gangs Unit identified the role of Social Care, Local Authority, Hackney Youth, Probation Services and Police, who are working together as a multi-disciplinary team. Findings from this wo...
10,000-volt methodologies formed the central data collection methodology for a prestigious Counter Terrorism Conference that ran in Los Angeles. Five countries including Australia, Canada, USA, New Zealand and the UK and 250 delegates met to discuss intelligence sharing in Counter Terrorism....
GMP Hydra Operations have run a number of Gang and Youth related 10kv events. An initial event looked at the partnership response to Gang related problems and the definition of a gang across the Manchester areas. A further event run with 300 teenagers look at their perceptions in a gang set...
Hydra Operations at the Metropolitan Police London together with the National Police Improvement Agency ran a number of Gold Level Hydra, 10kv events in preparation for the London Olympics. There are four in the series for the National Olympic Command Centre, the Olympic Intelligence Unit an...
The first Multi Agency Child Protection Exercise ran at the Avon and Somerset's Hydra Suite. The exercise involves delegates from Social Care, Health, Education and Police, working through a two day Hydra exercise. There is also a Diamond Panel including a Consultant Paediatrician, Local Aut...
The New South Wales Hydra Suite ran a Facilitators Course with Jonathan Crego and invited members of their Academic network and expert practitioners from other blue light services to the event. The delegates included members of the Counter Terrorism Command looking specifically at the Hydra ...
The brand new Hydra Suite in Western Australia ran a Hydra Facilitators Accrediation Course with Jonathan Crego in their fully operational suite at the Police Academy. Delegates from acroThe brand new Hydra Suite in Western Australia ran a Hydra Facilitators Accreditation Course with Jonatha...
10,000 Volts was used today to run an international workshop including representatives from the FBI, AFP, New Zealand and Canada, looking at emerging intelligence sharing protocols for international cybercrime enforcement. The event was held at New Scotland Yard London.
In response to the feedback we will be putting together a schedule for Webinars over the next few months.
Some feedback from attendees:
“Excellent, useful to catch up with a field I had very slight involvement with in the past. Also useful to g...
Security and Conflict:Webinar hosted by Professor Laurence Alison and Professor Jonathan Crego. A Critical Incident is defined as any event that can leave a lasting economic, psychological or behavioural effect on a community. This could involve floods, child protection enquiries, terrorist ...
10kv Workshop for Olympic Intelligence Unit at the Police Academy Ryton.
Delegates from the unit discussed organisational structures, function and olympic readiness. Most valuable discussions about the integration of the IOU with the command and control functions of the wider Olympi...
Hydra Operations ran a 10,000 volts workshop for Child protection experts from Harrow. The delegates consisted of Police, Social Care, Health and Education and the workshop explored how they would all work together in a new Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub that is due launch in January 2012. Th...
Hydra Operations ran a 10,000 volts session at Hounslow Civic Centre with members of the local police, the local authority and members of the community, including a number of young people. The session explored the response in Hounslow to the wide spread riots that took place in London and ot...
Prof. Alison was joined by Lee Rainbow (Head of Behavioural Investigative Analysis Unit) for the National Research Institute of Police Science Workshop and conference in August. They presented their work on offender profiling and behavioural advice to police, academics and associated emergen...
Laurence Alison presents 'Implementation Inertia in Critical Incidents' at Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM 2011) Biennial Conference. Prof. Alison presented recent work by Alison, Crego, Van Den Heuvel and Humman on how choosing between critical incident choices can lead to 'decision inert...
As part of Portsmouth University's ongoing lecture series, Jonathan Crego and Brian Chappell are lecturing at the police academy on " THE APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CRISIS AND CRITICA INCIDENTS" in a series of lectures for Police and Policing Parnters
Western Australia Police Academy ran its first set of workshops on Metro Issues, Preparedness for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and training needs for investigators last week. The Academy is now set to design and deliver Hydra exercises this year. Technical installation is sc...
The April issue of Police Chief magazine contains a substantial article about the Los Angeles Police Department Hydra suite. It is written by the Head of the Hydra team there, Sgt II Tim Kalkus. The complete article is at the link below:
Hydra Operations, based at Hendon, ran an exercise at The All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon). The delegates were from all the major stakeholders responsible for the safety and security of the championships. Over the course of a day, the delegates explored what has worked well in previo...
Professor Jonathan Crego ran the 10th Hydra Facilitators Course at Hendon. There are now nearly 200 trained Hydra facilitators and exercise directors across the world. This new level of expertise will enhance the learning experience for all concerned and enable greater collaboration between ...
Hydra Operations at Hendon ran a 10KV de-brief for the top 50 Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers in the Metropolitan Police. These officers were identified from the quality of their encounters with the public. They were not just those officers who stopped the most people &...
VCF - The Victoria Climbie Foundation UK is writing to offer its review of the Multi Agency Critical Incident Exercise (MACIE) established and delivered by the Metropolitan Police Hydra Operations.
This course is aimed at strategic heads of all agencies working to protect children a...
