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10 min read Alex Murray spent a career investigating murders and running counter-terrorism operations, then built the institution that asked British policing a harder question: does any of this actually work? A profile of the founder of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing.
11 Jun 2026 · 5 min read Jason Roach and the Case for Self-Selection Policing Professor Jason Roach helped develop self-selection policing: using selected minor offences as behaviour-based opportunities to identify wider serious offending. His wider contribution is practical psychology built for police use. 
11 Jun 2026 · 8 min read The Society of Evidence-Based Policing: Nurturing the Idea That Every Officer Can Test What Works The SEBP's real value isn't lobbying or publishing — it's lowering the bar so that any officer with a good idea can test it, get support to do so properly, and share what they find. Here is what it is, what it actually does, and why that matters. 
8 Jun 2026 · 5 min read Susanne Knabe-Nicol and Policing’s Research Translation Problem Dr Susanne Knabe-Nicol built Police Science Dr around a simple problem: useful policing research often fails to reach practitioners in a form they can access and use. Her work is a case study in evidence translation rather than evidence production. 
7 Jun 2026 · 4 min read Jerry Ratcliffe and the Case for Intelligence-Led Policing Former Metropolitan Police officer Jerry Ratcliffe helped turn intelligence-led policing into a practical model: interpret the criminal environment, influence decisions and test whether targeted action changes harm. 
7 Jun 2026 · 10 min read Lawrence Sherman and the Invention of Evidence-Based Policing In 1981 Lawrence Sherman ran a domestic violence call as a scientific experiment, and policing was never quite the same. A profile of the American criminologist who argued that the police should be tested like medicine — and who taught the officers, Alex Murray among them, who carried the idea into British policing. 
7 Jun 2026 · 5 min read Robert Peel and the Meaning of Policing by Consent Robert Peel created the Metropolitan Police in 1829, but the nine 'Peelian principles' were not written by him. What the history actually supports — and why policing by consent remains a useful test of legitimacy. 