Making it Happen!
The Australasian Council of Women and Policing will be holding the Sixth Women and Policing conference at the Duxton Hotel in Perth, Western Australia from Sunday 23 August until Wednesday 26 August 200.
The theme of the 2009 conference is “Making it Happen” and will explore practical and innovative solutions to how policing is being improved for women – how police services respond to their female employees and how policing responds to women in the community.
Police, researchers, advocates and practitioners are encouraged to consider contributing a paper to the conference.
This conference is about the practicalities of improving policing for women, and will hear women’s stories, their solutions and their achievements.
The four main themes for the conferences will be:
- Technology: friend or foe? - while technological advances provide considerable opportunities for women to influence and improve our society and to flexibly contribute to policing, it is also being used against women, with the rapid growth of and access to increasingly violent pornography, an increase in bullying, harassment, and its role in stalking women.
- Finders Keepers? - finding and recruiting women to policing is difficult but keeping them seems to be even harder.
- Skills Development - skill development workshops will be offered at the operational and the leadership levels on a wide range of topics.
- Partnerships - exploring the practical partnerships
that policing needs to make sure it responds to women it the community.
Please forward your 100 word abstract and a short biography to conference@acwap.com.au by 31 October 2008.