New LJMU development to help tackle crime across the city

LJMU is set to open a new academic centre this week, aiding the fight against crimes across the city.

The Centre of Advanced Policing Studies, launching this Thursday, will be crucial in the battle against serious crimes such as human trafficking.

The facility will host academic experts in new policing technology, forensic science and criminal psychology.

This combination of innovative research methods will be paired with traditional means of policing to crack down on a new wave of crime.

Aaliyah Rugg, a second year Journalism student, told The Tab: “A lot of my friends and family live in the city and it makes me feel safer knowing that something is being done about these crimes you hear about almost every day!”

Police chiefs say that the research conducted within the centre will focus on areas identified as problems by the community, such as child exploitation and hate crime, as well as ways that crime could be prevented in the first place.

Next year, the centre is launching a selection of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, providing students with a wide range of academic and technical skills which will see them prepared for a successful career in a range of policing or academic roles

The launch of the new centre follows the creation of LJMU’s Face Lab earlier this year, which contains pioneering technology that has the ability to reconstruct the decomposed faces of corpses and produce suspect e-fits based on witness descriptions.