Programme

11.00 – 11:30 Registration

11:30 – 11:45 Welcome

- Nick Foskett (Vice Chancellor, Keele University)
- Jonathan Hughes (Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University)
- Ken Scott (Scottish Institute for Policing Research)
- Adrian Lee (ACPO Ethics Portfolio Chair)

11:45 – 12:45 Panel 1: The importance of ethics for policing

- Adrian Lee (ACPO Ethics Portfolio Chair and Chief Constable, Northamptonshire)
- Philip Stenning (Centre for Criminological Research, Keele University)
- David Strang (Chief Constable, Lothian & Borders)

13:45 –17:00 Panel 2: Applying ethics to specific policing activities

(a) Liberty and security / use of force

- Judith Gillespie (Deputy Chief Constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland)
- Jim Waddington (Professor of Social Policy, Wolverhampton University)

(b) Conscientious objection

- Adrian Lee (ACPO Ethics Portfolio Chair and Chief Constable, Northamptonshire)
- Jonathan Hughes (Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University)

17:30 – 18:45 Panel 3: Challenges of training ethical police officers

- Eve Garrard (Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Manchester)
- Stuart Simpson (Senior Lecturer, Policing and Police Sciences, University of Glamorgan)

19:00 Conference Dinner at Keele Hall

- Keynote Speaker: Peter Neyroud (Chief Executive, National Policing Improvement Agency)

9:30 – 11:00 Panel 4: Developing, applying and updating ethical codes for police

- Al Hutchinson (Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland)
- Philip Stenning (Keele University)

11:30 – 13:00 Panel 5: Accountability for ethical policing

- Miranda Carruthers-Watt (Chief Executive, Lancashire Police Authority)
- John McNeill (Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland)

14:00 – 15:30 Panel 6: Identifying priorities for future policy development and research on police ethics in the UK