ARI Lead Dr Nadia Jessop (University of York)
At the Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence, we’re interested in making sure that policing professionals have access to the highest quality evidence on building and maintaining public trust. We wholly embrace this as an interdisciplinary endeavour working across the social sciences, STEM and the humanities.
Context
In light of decreasing trust and confidence in policing, the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) has proposed three problem questions on building and maintaining trust:
- How can policing standardise and visualise disproportionality data across forces?
- How can policing train officers on bias and lived experience?
- How can policing work with the criminal justice system to track and improve victim and witness support services
We’ve mapped these on to 3 main intersecting themes:
Public Trust and Confidence in Policing
- Minimum standards of policing
- Neighbourhood policing
- Innovations in policing use of science and technology
Youth, marginalised communities and racial disproportionality
- Fair, ethical, legal treatment
- Child and Youth-centered policing
- Police attitudes and identity
Policing institutional culture and behaviour
- Organisational justice
- Complaints systems
- Culture change