2023 THEMES


The European Regional Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH2023 Europe) will present a multi-focused Conference Program that addresses three main areas:

The key theme for LEPH2023 Europe is ‘Together towards resilient communities’,  acknowledging the continued existence of challenges to personal and social safety and wellbeing, and the superior contribution of integrated approaches and responses to their prevention and amelioration.

As with previous LEPH conferences, LEPH2023 Europe aspires to contribute to the achievement of the Rio+20 Conference’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to overcome marginalisation.

The achievement of effective public health outcomes is often the result of intersecting law enforcement and public health policy that underpins integrated practice. Law enforcement, especially through the activities of police forces, has a crucial but often unacknowledged role in the protection and promotion of public health. This means that there is an inadequate approach to research and investigation of ways in which law enforcement can be most effectively engaged and be most effective in carrying out their public health role.

As for all LEPH conferences, marginalised communities are an important priority theme of LEPH2023. Marginalisation is the enemy of security and health. Too often around the world police have been agents of marginalisation. Inclusive policing works to overcome marginalisation, by according equal or greater attention and support to populations at increased risk because they are excluded and have unequal access to justice.

Public health is an active partner in crime prevention as well as a range of other complex social issues like mental health, infectious diseases, road trauma, community and domestic violence, alcohol and drugs and disaster management. As well as providing ‘State of the Art’ updates from national and international experts in both police and public health, LEPH2023 will bring together experience and examples of successful partnership initiatives from the widest range of settings.

 

Overarching theme:    Community resilience

 

Major themes:             

 

Examples of Other Topics within a particular theme (by no means exhaustive)