How can policing best implement and utilise situational awareness within policing practices?
Background
"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."
Next steps
"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 [email protected], 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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Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
Context & challenge: The Scottish Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (SPACE) brings together interdisciplinary academic expertise in three key substantive themes: Safety, Prevention, and Analytics; underpin...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Edinburgh Napier University
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on enhancing policing policy and practice through academic evidence and innovative approaches, aligning with the question's goal of implementing and utilizing situational awareness within policing practices.
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Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
Lancaster Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) Lancaster University’s case to be recognised as a Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) is based on its world leading reputation for the application of ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Lancaster University
Why might this be relevant?
The project showcases expertise in areas related to surveillance, sensing, and situational awareness, partially addressing the question's focus on implementing and utilizing situational awareness within policing practices.
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Identifying Future Capabilities for Community Policing (KOBAN)
Across Europe society is changing due to demographic, technological and economic developments. Communities are getting more diverse, both in real life and online. This challenges Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to engage...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on community policing rather than situational awareness.