"Personal safety is the ability to protect policing’s workforce and members of the public.
We seek novel solutions that allow police officers to make safe and proportionate lawful interference in two areas:
1. Vehicle interdiction, particularly as it relates to stopping e-scooter and e-bike crime; and,
2. Stand-off knife detection, enabling swift resolution for police officers in a safe manner.
We have seen great progress against both challenges, but there remain questions over how to achieve usable size, weight, and power configurations, and the pros and cons of different candidate technologies for different scenarios. As in many areas, development here will combine advances in sensors, power, and computation."
"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:
ISIS will detect threats on public transport, inform key decision makes of that threat and manage its own network. It will use video cameras, audio microphones and RF/microwave sensors to detect threats as they enter bus...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
The project focuses on detecting threats in public transport using sensors, which aligns with the question's focus on technologies for vehicle interdiction related to e-scooter and e-bike crime.
We aim to conduct an assessment of the commercial viability of an innovative and discrete technology solution which can autonomously detect and respond to threats. Although the product usage can span multiple markets, th...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: RUSSELL HATFIELD T/A ROSH
The project aims to reduce high impact crimes using innovative technology, which partially aligns with the question's focus on technologies for vehicle interdiction related to e-scooter and e-bike crime.