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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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
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 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
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 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
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.