How can candidate technologies for lawful knife detection and vehicle interdiction achieve usable size, weight, and power configurations?
Background
"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."
Next steps
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Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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A novel Smart Metal Detector (SMD) to detect and locate real threats (e.g. handguns and knives) without interrupting the normal flow of public, thus leading to far more accurate, efficient and cost-effective security screening
Gun and knife crime are clearly severe global problems. In the last 10 years, the UK has unfortunately experienced **245,632 criminal offences** caused by knives or sharp instruments, of which **1,745 resulted in deaths....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Partially addresses the question by focusing on stand-off knife detection but not vehicle interdiction.
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INNOVATION PROCUREMENT OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR SAFE REMOTE VEHICLE STOPPING BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
INTERCEPT aims to strengthen the capabilities of law enforcement authorities in the EU and equip them with effective methods to remotely and safely stop vehicles posing imminent and high-security threats to citizens and ...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Why might this be relevant?
Partially addresses the question by focusing on safe remote vehicle stopping but not stand-off knife detection.
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Free-flow, and Rapid, Standoff security-screening, for All Weapons (FORSAW)
Busy transport hubs, including railways stations, face the conflicting requirements to rapidly move high volumes of people through public areas and onto trains, whilst simultaneously ensuring that those intent on causing...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Fully addresses the question by focusing on stand-off security screening for all weapons, including knives, with a specific emphasis on size, weight, and power configurations.