In this issue of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal (PPR) we are also publishing as a Special Feature an official report by Professor Philip Stenning on the deliberations of the 26th Annual Meeting of International Police Executive Symposium, IPES, www.ipes.info, that took place in Pattaya Beach, Thailand on 8–12 August 2015 on the theme of Police Governance and Human Trafficking. This meeting was hosted by The Royal Thai Police Association, Royal Thai Police and Shinawatra University. Professor Stenning was the Official Reporter.
PPR with its avowed mission of encouraging and enhancing cooperation between police practitioners and researchers is affiliated with IPES. As readers will note in the account of IPES in this issue, this organization that enjoys a Special Consultative status with the United Nations ‘fosters closer relationships among police researchers and practitioners globally’ as well as facilitates ‘cross-cultural, international and interdisciplinary exchanges for the enhancement of policing profession’ and encourages ‘discussion and published research on challenging and contemporary topics related to the profession’.
Readers will also note in the Forthcoming Special Issues published in this issue of PPR that a Special Issue of the journal on the theme of the Thailand Meeting, namely, ‘Police Governance and Human Trafficking: Promoting Preventative and Comprehensive Strategies’ is forthcoming.
Further I am delighted to note that the collaboration between IPES and PPR continues vigorously. It will be noted that the next meeting of IPES, ‘Urban Security: Challenges for the 21st Century Global Cities’ will be hosted in George Washington University in Washington DC on 8–13 August 2016. It will be followed by the 28th Meeting in Liverpool, UK, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University’s Advanced Policing Centre on the theme, ‘Organized Crime & Terrorism: Policing Challenges for Local to International Level’ on 6–10 August 2017.
Thus, PPR and IPES partnership continues to move from strength to greater strength, fortifying and intensifying, a global trend and awareness for collaboration between police research and practice in every part of the ‘Brave New World’ that amazed Shakespeare’s Miranda.Footnote1
Editor-in-Chief
Produced at the Office of the International Police Executive Symposium, IPES, www.ipes.info
Notes
1. Vaughan, V. M., & Vaughan, A. T. (1999). The Tempest. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. The Arden Shakespeare.