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,...
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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 funds research on digitally enabled coercive control
The N8 PRP has funded a 9 month grant investigating how police can respond to the use of domestic surveillance technology in coercive control cases. N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced £34k in funding for a project led by Dr Antoinette Huber and Professor...
Innovation Forum Inspires Ideas and Actions to Improve Policing for Black People
The 2023 N8 PRP Policing Innovation Forum discussed how to 'Improve Policing for Black People'. Around 60 delegates gathered at the beautiful Roundthorn Hotel in Penrith on 21 June for the eighth Policing Innovation Forum, 'Improving Policing for Black People: The...
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
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
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
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 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...
New Research Award on Rural Domestic Abuse for N8 PRP Small Grant Team
Under-researched area gets new attention thanks to collaboration between University of Leeds and Cumbria Constabulary.University of Leeds academics and Cumbria Constabulary have received funding from the Home Office Police STAR Board. The project, Understanding the...