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N8 PRP Publishes Annual Report 2023

N8 PRP Publishes Annual Report 2023

The N8 Policing Research Partnership has published the annual report for 2023. With a foreword from Serena Kennedy KPM, Chief Constable for Merseyside and NPCC Head of Prevention, the report reviews N8 PRP activity of the past year across Knowledge Exchange, Research,...

Labour’s Community Policing Guarantee

Labour’s Community Policing Guarantee

Professor Geoff Pearson, N8 PRP Co-Director, comments on the Labour Party's 'Community policing guarantee’. Extra funding for the College of Policing - and in particular to train police analysts - is to be welcomed. Evidence-based policing, which goes beyond mere...

N8 PRP Launches 2022 Annual Report

N8 PRP Launches 2022 Annual Report

The Annual Report covers N8 PRP's major achievements in 2022, and plans for 2023. The report is available to read at the link below and on the Reports page. Chancellor of the University of Manchester and former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, Nazir...

2023 Small Grants Announced

2023 Small Grants Announced

The N8 PRP 2023 Small Grants will explore gendered violence, drug markets and repeat sexual offenders. N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced that four Small Grants have been funded, with research due to start in January 2023. Small Grants foster innovative...

Stop & Search – N8 impact

Stop & Search – N8 impact

Vehicle stop checks should be recorded, and officers shouldn’t use the smell of cannabis alone to conduct a stop & search, according to Independent Office for Police Conduct (IPOC) recommendations published 20 April 2022. The report draws on research by Professor...

Call Announcement – Small Grants Award 2022/23

Call Announcement – Small Grants Award 2022/23

The 2022 call for Small Grants Awards is now live. Small Grants, Big Impact The Small Grants Award funds collaborative, targeted research into high-priority areas, new challenges, and pressing concerns in policing.  Previous research projects have had a significant...

N8 PRP Launches Annual Report 2021

N8 PRP Launches Annual Report 2021

N8 PRP reports on the events, research, impact and achievements of its first year as a self-funded partnership. Read N8 PRP's Annual Report 2020/21.  In October 2020, N8 Policing Research Partnership became a self-funded partnership. The decision by police and...