Strengthening the evidence base on the measurement of police productivity and how marginal changes in types of police spend can improve outcomes.

Background

Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects


  • Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

    The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (TYP-ACE) will mobilise the best research and innovation evidence across the universities of Leeds and York to improve public trust and confidence in policing, enhance...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Leeds

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on improving public trust and confidence in policing, enhancing community safety, and reducing harm, which aligns with the question's goal of measuring police productivity and improving outcomes.

  • Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

    Policing in the UK is confronted by a set of enduring and emergent challenges. The effectiveness, efficiency, and legitimacy of policing in meeting these challenges can be enhanced through its proactive engagement with t...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses enduring and emergent challenges in policing, including crime prevention and analytics, partially aligning with the question's focus on improving police outcomes through marginal changes in spending.

  • NCJL Academic Lead

    Across policing and the Home Office there are critical questions that need answering in order to improve criminal justice outcomes. The information exists to answer many of these questions but is hidden within large data...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Leicester

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to maximize the potential of data within policing and government to support a data-driven approach to criminal justice outcomes, aligning with the question's focus on improving outcomes through measurement of police productivity.

  • Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

    The UCL P-ACE will be based in the Department of Security and Crime Science (DSCS) at University College London (UCL). The DSCS is a global leader in police-relevant research, innovation, education and impact, and is hom...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

  • Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

    Context & challenge:  The Scottish Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (SPACE) brings together interdisciplinary academic expertise in three key substantive themes: Safety, Prevention, and Analytics; underpin...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Edinburgh Napier University

  • Economics of the Police: Recruitment, Retention and Finance

    The project will focus on three broad areas of policing: (i) it will measure the quality of police officer recruits using an innovative data set, and examine how this quality is affected by local labour market conditio...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question by examining the factors that affect the retention rates of police officers and the scope for local discretion over spending on police officers and the deployment of police officers. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.

  • Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

    Lancaster Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) Lancaster University’s case to be recognised as a Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) is based on its world leading reputation for the application of ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Lancaster University

  • Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

    This application comes from a consortium of three Universities – University of Leicester, Aston University and the University of Birmingham, to form the Policing Academic Centre of Excellence, Leicester, Aston, Birmingha...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

  • Markets in Policing: The Appetite for and Organisational, Cultural and Moral Limits to Markets in Public Policing

    Policing stands at a crossroads in the light of fiscal restraint by governments, the growing maturity of the private security industry and persistent public demands for police provision in insecure times. In Britain, as ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Leeds

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question by exploring the appetite for and limits to private sector involvement in public policing. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.

  • Crime, Policing and Citizenship (CPC) - Space-Time Interactions of Dynamic Networks

    Crime continues to cast a shadow over citizen well-being in big cities today, while also imposing huge economic and social costs. Prevention, early detection and strategic mitigation are all critical to effective policy ...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question by analyzing crime patterns, police activity patterns, and citizen perceptions. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.