"Surveillance and sensing is the ability to lawfully monitor and collect data from people, activity, movements, behaviours, objects and data overtly and covertly.
The ability of Chief Officers to have real-time information about policing’s workforce and technical assets is central to delivering an efficient and effective operational response. We seek to capitalise on geospatial technologies to deliver new information forms that can enhance situational awareness and decision making. The information we seek to provide includes asset tracking, document, video and image transfer to deployed officers, remote briefing capabilities, electronic logging, improved transparency, and accountability in relevant operations. We are equally interested in research that helps us understand how best to implement and utilise situational awareness within policing practices."
"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:
From domestic violence through to Cyber-crime, front line Police officers face a complex array of societal challenges daily. Maintaining a training environment that helps better prepare officers for the complexity of mod...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: DIGITAL TRAINING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Partially relevant as it focuses on immersive learning for police training, not directly on situational awareness implementation.
The project will build a strategic and innovative knowledge exchange and research co-production platform, providing a structured relationship between West Yorkshire Police (WYP), the Office of the PCC for West Yorkshire ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
Fully relevant as it focuses on knowledge exchange and research co-production in policing, directly addressing situational awareness implementation.
New visual technologies including body-worn and cellphone cameras have led to previously unprecedented access to police conduct. Public reaction to the 'new visibility' of use-of-force, crowd control and interrogations h...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Partially relevant as it explores how visual technologies shape police oversight and training, not directly on situational awareness implementation.