The N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) has announced a new 3-year phase, starting 1 October 2024. The new phase has been made possible through the continued support of the N8 Research Partnership universities and the 11 police forces across the north,...
The N8 PRP Drugs Policing Conference, Policing Markets, Policing People, will take place at the University of Manchester, 1-2 July 2024. N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced new additions to the Drugs Policing Conference Programme, and a discount for all...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
