PPR’s global community of readers will perhaps note that usually the second issue in each volume is a Special Issue (SI) but this is not. The reason is that the SI, to be entitled ‘Police Governance and Human Trafficking’, based on the papers presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of International Police Executive Symposium, IPES, www.ipes.info, in Pattaya Beach, Thailand was not ready for a variety of reasons including the fact the Guest Editor, Professor Caroline Taylor of Australia, was involved in a mission with the INTERPOL, in her field of expertise as Child Sexual Abuse Expert. However, the SI will be published in the next issue (18.3).
The current issue, 18.2, with articles from the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and South Korea primarily deals with pragmatic and contemporary police issues like homeland security, regional fusion centers, child sexual abuse investigation, the presence of possible prejudicial stereotyping in police interviews with suspects, police service detention centers and police interpreting. The book reviews – two of the three books reviewed are IPES/Taylor and Francis publications-are also rooted themes with practice orientation.
Collaboration between police research and practice to which PPR is dedicated is carried forward by IPES, among other activities, by an annual meeting in which a global community of police practitioners and researchers deliberate on a contemporary issue in the field of policing. The next meeting of IPES will be hosted by the John Moores University in Liverpool (UK) on 6–11 August 2017 on the theme of ‘Organized Crime and Terrorism: Policing Challenges for Local to International Level’. The details can be seen in the flyer at the back of the journal. PPR readers, authors, reviewers, as well as all others associated with IPES/PPR are most cordially invited to Liverpool.
Produced at the Office of the International Police Executive Symposium.
Editor-in-Chief, PPR
Founding President, IPES
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