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.
Next steps
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Source
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
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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
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.