"Personal safety is the ability to protect policing’s workforce and members of the public.
We believe science and technology is central to policing’s efforts to identify and address wellbeing concerns, including by mitigating trauma in the first place. We wish to take advantage of emerging technologies that can help identify people who may be struggling, enabling earlier interventions. We recognise that the success of these innovations is dependent on workforce acceptance and engagement, and we seek to learn what innovations staff would use and find supportive. We are also interested in technologies that can mitigate the trauma our staff experience by the nature of their work. "
"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
To embed knowledge and capability in order to develop, implement and evaluate wellbeing support services for the police officers and staff in England and Wales, adhering to the principles of evidence-based practice....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
The project aims to develop, implement, and evaluate wellbeing support services for police officers and staff, aligning with the question's focus on science-informed changes to support the wellbeing of vulnerable or struggling staff.
On the one hand, the evidence of links between workplace health and wellbeing, employee engagement and work performance is robust and reliable. On the other hand, although some practices show promise of effectiveness, we...
Funded by: UKRI
Lead research organisation: University of East Anglia
The project explores the effectiveness of different workplace health and wellbeing practices, which aligns with the question's focus on identifying supportive innovations for staff wellbeing.
Police officers are among one of the occupational groups presenting with higher rates of ill health compared to other workers and are exposed to a wide range of chemical, physical and psychosocial risk factors that can a...
Funded by: MRC
Lead research organisation: Imperial College London
The project specifically focuses on evaluating health risks and promoting wellbeing among police officers, addressing the question's concern for supporting the wellbeing of vulnerable staff in policing workplaces.