Public Safety & Police Studies

CLEPH is building a focus on the understanding of the nature of this relationship, as a partnership between the public health, academic and law enforcement worlds. Recognising that the social and structural determinants of health operate at every level, the focus of CLEPH’s vision ranges from the very local to the global. In collaboration with others around the world, CLEPH is building capacity, interest and activities across the whole range of investigation and influence: research, teaching, advocacy, networking (including peer support and education), and engagement with other sectors/disciplines.

The hallmark of CLEPH’s program is partnership with law enforcement, and its emphasis is on the translation of research and knowledge into action and practice.

Bringing the law enforcement and public health sectors together to address complex issues requiring an inter-sectoral approach is a rapidly emerging field, being explored in all jurisdictions and for a multitude of problems. Recognising the recurrent failure of approaches devised within isolated individual sectors, GLEPHA sees it of prime importance to bring together practitioners, policymakers, and academics to explore the nature of the myriad interactions between the police and public health sectors across the widest range of social, humanitarian, security, and public health issues.

Law enforcement is both a sector and an activity; public health is likewise a sector and an activity: together they have common goals of inclusive wellbeing and safety of the communities they serve. There are many professions engaged in these endeavours, and too often professional and disciplinary boundaries constrain our ability to develop optimum strategies to achieve these goals. Issues of governance and collaborative leadership are fundamental to effective alliances.

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