This issue, the first issue of 2019, opens with an homage to Alexander Aldrich, former illustrious Treasurer of IPES, International Police Executive Symposium, www.ipes.info, who combined research and practice extremely admirably in his highly fulfilling life and supremely very successful career.
IPES was started in 1994 before its affiliated journal, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal (PPR) emerged in 2000 to fulfill the need brought home by the meetings of police practitioners and researchers from all parts of the globe for an intellectual vehicle to push forward the mission of collaboration between police practice and research. In a way PPR has been nourished and developed in the ‘Brave New World’ (Shakespeare) discovered by IPES.
It is perhaps an irony, like, of course, life itself, that as we say an affectionate and tearful good-bye to a beloved and most colorful Treasurer of IPES, we are also ushering in the 19th volume of PPR. This Volume opens with a variegated selection of articles from a galaxy of researchers and practitioners about Australia, China, Nigeria, The Netherlands and the USA. Thus, this issue like every issue in PPR embodies the ideals, vision and dreams of IPES.
As IPES facilitated the emergence of PPR, the journal led to the growth of Advances in Police Theory and Research.: A book series to discuss the substantial issues in depth. True, PPR does advance the issues and challenges relating to police practice and research but limitations of time and space preclude larger discussions and more authoritative expositions that can provide stronger and broader linkages between the worlds of police practice and research. This has been the objective of the Advances Series, This Series in turn led to the emergence of another series, Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts and Prisons with the objectives of presenting the perspectives of high ranking officials and private practitioners throughout the world.
Central to the IPES mission of global collaboration between police practice and research are the IPES annual meetings. The next meeting of IPES on the theme of International Police Cooperation will be hosted at the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime in Vienna on 19–23 August 2018. As usual, the most analytical papers presented at the IPES meeting in UNODC are intended to be included in a Special Issue of PPR after thorough peer review as well as there will be post-conference book in the series. IPES and Taylor and Francis Co-Publications.
Founding President, International Police Executive Symposium, IPES, www.ipes.info
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, PPR, http://www.tandfonline.com/gppr