The International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) brings police researchers and practitioners together to facilitate cross-cultural, international and interdisciplinary exchanges for the enrichment of the policing profession. It encourages discussions and writing on challenging topics of contemporary importance through an array of initiatives including conferences and publications.
Mission
Will Be Held in VALLETTA, MALTA - March 14 thru 19, 2010
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International Police Executive Symposium
Founded in 1994 by Dilip K. Das, Ph.D., the IPES is a registered Not-For-Profit
educational corporation. It is funded by the benefaction of institutional
supporters and sponsors that host IPES events around the world.
Dr. Dilip Das
Dr. Das has over 40 years of experience in police practice, research,
writing and education. He is currently head of the Department of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement at Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland and a human rights consultant to the United Nations. Dr. Das serves as president of the IPES and manages
the affairs of the organization in cooperation with an appointed group
of police practitioners, academia members, and individuals from around
the world.
IPES - Annual Meetings
The International Police Executive Symposium’s major annual initiative
is a four-day meeting on specific issues relevant to the policing profession.
Past meeting themes have covered a broad range of topics from police education
to corruption. Meetings are organized by the IPES in conjunction with
sponsoring organizations in a host country. To date, meetings have been
held throughout North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia. The immediate past meeting was
hosted by The Ministry of Interior for the Republic of Macedonia in the beautiful city of Lake Ohrid, Macedonia. The upcoming 2010 meeting will be held in Valetta, Malta and hosted by Commissioner John Rizzo, Malta Police.
International Audience and Attendees
The IPES’ annual meetings bring together ministers of interior
and justice, police commissioners and chiefs, members of the academia
representing world-renowned institutions and many more of Criminal Justice
elite from over 60 countries throughout the world. The meeting facilitates
interaction, and the exchange of ideas and opinions on all aspects of
policing. The agenda is structured to encourage dialogue in both formal
and informal settings.
Meeting participants are requested to present a paper discussing the meeting’s theme from their country’s perspective. Compilations of selected papers from each meeting have been published or are in stages of publication preparation.
IPES advocates, promotes and propagates that POLICING is one of the most basic and essential avenues for improving the quality of life in all nations, rich and poor; modern and traditional; large and small as well as peaceful and strife-ridden.
IPES actively works to drive home to all its office bearers, supporters and admirers that, in order to reach its full potential as an instrument of service to humanity, POLICING must be fully and enthusiastically open to:
(1) Collaboration between research and practice
(2) Global exchanges among the police of all nations in the world
(3) Universal dissemination and sharing of best practices
(4) Generating thinking police leaders and followers, reflecting and writing
on the issues challenging to the profession
Through its Annual Meetings, Hosts, Institutional Supporters, and Publications, IPES reaffirms that POLICING is a moral profession with unflinching adherence to the rule of law and human rights as the embodiment of humane values.