Projects

Welsh Assembly Government

The Causes and Consequences of Community Cohesion in Wales: A Secondary Analysis

Based upon secondary analysis of data from the most recent British Crime Survey and The Living in Wales Survey this study will examine the distribution of community cohesion across Wales to identify how it is associated with a range of factors including: demographics; area levels of crime and disorder; fear of crime; and levels of trust and confidence in the police

South Wales Police

Community Policing - harnessing the power of community intelligence

A study to explore the application of community intelligence in the policing of priority areas across South Wales

Welsh Assembly Government and Women's Safety Unit

Integrating the Independent Domestic Violence Advisor and Flying Start: An Evaluation

An evaluation of a pilot placement of an IDVA within an early years child development programme in a deprived area of Cardiff.

City of London Police / London First

Policing the Business Community: Business Policing Model

A pilot study to investigate the principles of neighbourhood and reassurance policing transferred to a community consisting predominantly of businesses.

ACPO (Homicide Working Group)

The Impact of Homicide on Community Reassurance

Field trials will be conducted in three forces of a conceptual framework and methodology developed in an earlier pilot project designed to calibrate the impact of critical incidents on levels of community reassurance.

Safer Sutton Partnership

Driving Safer Neighbourhood Interventions in London Borough of Sutton

The third consecutive year of using a community intelligence gathering methodology to understand local community safety issues and inform interventions to address them.

Lancashire Constabulary

Using i-nsi to drive Safer Neighbourhood Interventions in Lancashire: a self-delivery pilot in Northern Division.

This project involved a trial of an an innovative methodology to improve community intelligence and community engagement process in an area of Lancashire.

ACPO (Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee)

Reducing Radicalisation Risks through Reassurance – Orientated Policing

An empirically informed research study conducted to better understand the role that policing can perform in reducing the risks of violent radicalisation in the UK’s Muslim communities

Cheshire Constabulary

Exploring Community Safety in Cheshire

A pilot study using the i-nsi methodology to understand Community Safety issues in Cheshire.

Victoria Police, Australia

Supporting Community Policing in Victoria; a Pilot Study

A pilot study to explore the use of the i-nsi methodology in an international policing jurisdiction.

Safer Sutton Partnership

Using i-nsi to drive Safer Neighbourhood Interventions in Sutton Borough: a self-training programme.

Following a successful pilot, the project saw the i-NSI community intelligence tool rolled out across Sutton Borough in London.

South Wales Police and Cardiff Community Safety Partnership

Cardiff City SENSOR

A city-wide project to explore the role of community intelligence and public engagement in Cardiff.

Goverment Office for the South West

Signal Crimes Analysis & Response (SCAR) - Criminal Damage Strategy

A trial study coordinated on behalf of GOSW and four Police Forces. The study employed the i-nsi methodology to identify and target effective interventions to counter criminal damage.

Police Academy of the Netherlands

Supporting Reassurance Policing in the Netherlands; a Pilot Study

A pilot study to explore the use of the i-nsi methodolgy in a continental European policing jurisdiction.

Manchester Council

Using i-nsi to drive Safer Neighbourhood Interventions in Moss Side and Hulme, Manchester.

This project involved a trial of the i-NSI methodology in the Moss Side and Hulme  areas of Manchester.

British Transport Police

Reassurance on the east end of the District Line

Following on from some earlier work, focus groups were conducted in London to explore the perceptions and attitudes of London Underground Staff and members of the travelling public about their safety and security.

Home Office & ACPO

National Reassurance Policing Programme

This large-scale empirical research project based in 16 sites throughout England tested the capacity of the Signal Crimes Perspective to underpin a Reassurance Policing style that was effective in reducing levels of neighbourhood insecurity and improving the public’s trust and confidence in the police.

National Community Tensions Team & ACPO

Community Intelligence: A Report to the National Community Tensions Team

Based upon interviews in three forces with police officers engaged in a variety of roles, together with interviews with members of the public, this project examined aspects of the police’s current intelligence-base.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Security and Transforming the Prospects of Places

Based upon analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from 4 areas, this study examined how crime, disorder, fear of crime, and social control responses to such problems influence the development trajectories of neighbourhoods.

Home Office

The Use of Forensic Science in Hard-to-Solve Major Crime Investigations

Informed by ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews, this project explored how innovations in forensic science technologies and techniques have implications for the ways police deal with the most difficult murder investigations.