Policing rural communities – Roundtable recording
On 20 October 2020, the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime – @RuCrimSociety – held an online roundtable focussed on “Policing Rural Communities”.
THE ROUNDTABLE RECORDING CAN BE ACCESSED HERE
Rural crime and criminal justice practices and responses face different challenges from those experienced in urban contexts. This practitioner-focused roundtable investigated challenges and innovations in international contexts on issues surrounding rural policing.
The event was hosted and moderated by Dr Jessica Peterson from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
The expert panel consisted of:
Detective Inspector Cameron Whiteside
State Rural Crime Coordinator, New South Wales Police Force (Australia)
Inspector Alan Dron
National Rural Crime Co-ordinator, Police Scotland
Tori Heaney
Farm Crime Advisor, Farm Crime Coordination Unit, Victoria Police (Australia)
Christian Mouhanna
Director, Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice Institutions)
We asked our panellists two key things:
- What are the key challenges for rural policing?
- What innovations are being deployed internationally to address these challenges?
