"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:
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
Lead research organisation: METRASENS LIMITED
Partially relevant as it focuses on metal detection rather than knife detection and vehicle interdiction.
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
Lead research organisation: CAMBRIDGE SENSORIIS LTD
Partially answers the question by focusing on passenger security screening with small weight and power sensors.
Gun crime is a problem in some areas in the UK and many other countries. The police have ways of detecting criminals carrying guns, but this usually involves surveillance over a period of time together with targeted stop...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University
Fully answers the question by proposing the development of a portable device for remotely detecting weapons.