Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Profile

Bob Golding is an associate senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth, and runs his own consultancy company specialising in programme and change management. He is a Member of the Association of Project Management. He was lately Assistant Chief Constable with Warwickshire Police, and was the lead for the Association of Chief Police Officers on Research and Development and for Business Crime.

He retired from the police after 30 years service in both Hampshire and Warwickshire Police, where he served in a wide range of roles, including national roles for ACPO in Criminal Justice and reform (he was based at CPS HQ in London for two years leading on Trials Issues leading, for example, on fast track trials and the Glidewell CPS/police reform projects); and was national project manager for police appraisals and performance pay. He has been a  BCU commander, and has had various portfolios as Assistant Chief Constable in support and operational roles at force, and regional levels (for example regional HR and Training lead; Lead for the West Midlands region Central Motorway Patrol Group; force and regional representative for ACPO on the Regional Resilience forum).

On retirement he undertook the role as programme manager for the ACPO/Home Office National Ballistics Intelligence Programme, and latterly as programme consultant for the ACPO Criminal Use of Firearms working group. More recently he was the lead researcher and author on the Policy Exchange publication Going Ballistic, examining gun and knife crime in the UK, with a forthcoming publication on the international dimension of gun and knife crime. He co-authored with Steve Savage a section entitled Leadership and Performance Management  in the latest edition of Handbook of Policing edited by Tim Newburn.

 

Qualifications:

He has a first degree in Geography from Portsmouth, a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Reading, a research PhD on prostitution and policing from Portsmouth, and a post graduate Diploma in Applied Criminology from the University of Cambridge.

 

Research Interests:

Police organisation, management and leadership; performance management; gun crime; prostitution and policing

 

Current Research Projects:

 

International research on the control of gun crime

Single non emergency number (private consultancy research)

Police national database (private consultancy)