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professionals and others who aim to make evidence based approaches part of everyday policing
in Australia and New Zealand.

Evidence-based policing in Canada:

The Canadian Society of Evidence Based Policing (CAN-SEBP) was launched in April 2015 in
Manchester, UK, as an affiliate of the UK-based Society of Evidence Based Policing, as well as

ASEBP and ANZ-SEBP. CAN-SEBP is a collaborative effort between police practitioners and
academic researchers aimed at generating actionable research to inform policy, practice,
education and training in the field of public safety. Partners in the Society - who maintain

executive-level steering and oversight functions - include representatives from several Canadian
police forces and universities. Other agencies and researchers serve as active collaborators.

CAN-SEBP's membership consists of active and retired police officers, civilian police members,
applied policing researchers, graduate researchers and representatives from provincial, federal
and municipal community safety groups.

High Policing:

High policing is a form of intelligence-led policing that serves to protect the national government or
a conglomerate of national governments from internal threats; that is, any policing operations

integrated into domestic intelligence gathering, national security, or international
security operations for the purpose of protecting government.

The term "high policing" was introduced into English language police studies by Canadian
criminologist Jean-Paul Brodeur in a 1983 article entitled "High Policing and Low Policing:

Remarks about the Policing of Political Activities" and derives from the French haute police, the
political police force established in France under Louis XIV.

High Policing the term does not refer to the euphoria police may feel after an adrenalin generating
challenge is met, nor does it refer to policing while high, although both might accompany the

activities falling within the concept's broad meaning. In its original meaning it referred to the use of
political intelligence to preserve the power of the ruler, in particular as this involved stealth,
spying, espionage and intrigue. Yet, like barnacles that become attached to a ship, over time the

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