Reflecting

1. NACP ConferenceThe Dialogue of Chaplaincy: reflecting on being a Chaplain to the PoliceThe Rev Canon Dr Andrew Todd

2. Reflecting Seeing: • Understanding the context – the Police • Understanding chaplaincy in context – dimensions and issues arising Judging: • Considering models, identities and theology of chaplaincy – bringing perspectives into dialogue Acting: • Identifying pointers for the role of chaplain

3. Reflecting on the Police Policing in the 21st Century: Re-connecting the police and the people • Sir Robert Peel (1829) – ‘Preventing Crime and Disorder’ • Bureaucracy/targets to democratic accountability (empowering the Police) • Meeting new crime and anti-social behaviour challenges • Localism and value for money

4. Policing in the 21st Century • Power back to the people – the Police to be more accountable, accessible, transparent • Power away from Government • Government refocused on organised crime, borders, terrorism (National Crime Agency) • ‘Form writers’ to ‘crime fighters’ • Not technology but accountability • Election of Police and Crime Commissioners

5. Policing in the 21st Century • Monitoring: HMIC, IPCC + Police and Crime Panels • National Framework: Value for money (remuneration); Collaboration; National Crime Agency • Changing roles for HMIC and ACPO • Phase out NPIA • Accountability and professionalisation

6. Questions • How are the Police responding to government policy? • Do the Police have the same understanding as Government of the most pressing issues they face? Do you? • How do the changes in policing and the current morale of the Police shape your roles as chaplains to them?

7. Being a Chaplain The dimensions of chaplaincy: • The mission of the organisation (Prevention of crime and disorder) • Pastoral • Spiritual • Ethical • Ritual

8. Being a Chaplain Issues arising in being a chaplain to the Police: • Acting as a bridge (Police and wider community)? • Understanding the organisation – the Police culture • Changing understandings of religion and spirituality (in a context of pluralism) • The multi-faith context • Understandings of mission

9. Questions In your experience, what are: • The dimensions of your role as a chaplain to the Police? • The significant issues that shape, or are changing your role as a chaplain? • The tensions that you experience (pastorally, practically, ethically, theologically)?

10. Models of Chaplaincy Practice Models • Pastor, priest, prophet • Being incarnational and non-judgemental Service Models • ‘Force-multiplier’, ‘moral compass’, expert on religion and spirituality • Professionalism and accountability • Impact on risk

11. Questions • What (practice) models of chaplaincy do you work out of? • What (service) models of chaplaincy do you work with? • What do the Police think you are there for? • What models of chaplaincy offer an effective way of working today?

12. Questions • What identity/ies sustain your chaplaincy work? • What theology sustains your work as a chaplain? • How do your understandings of models, identity and theology of chaplaincy reshape how you approach the role in practice?