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Home Office Good Practice Seminars

Problem Solving Seminar

12 February 2004
Hilton Hotel, Leeds

Greg Dyche, Home Office Regional Director for the Government Office - Yorkshire & Humberside, introduced the seminar and the keynote speakers.

Ken Pease spoke on What Makes a Good Problem-Oriented Approach?, and Robert Murdie and Suzanne Wylie from Belfast presented The Problem Solving Approach in Delivering Crime Reduction.

Delegates then attended 2 of the following 4 workshops:

Workshop 1
Tackling Alcohol Related Assaults
Julie McNerlin & Samantha Allen – Foyle BCU, Northern Ireland

Workshop 2
Problem Solving in Tackling Street Crime & Robbery
Mike Barton – Lancashire Police

Workshop 3
Practical Tools in Problem Solving: The Partnership Business Model
Mark Feeley & Steve Sizmur – Home Office

Workshop 4
Problem Solving and the 5Is: An Anti-Social Behaviour Case Study
Paul Ekblom – Home Office

Last update: Wednesday, November 01, 2006