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...
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...
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...
Professor Geoff Pearson, N8 PRP Co-Director, will give his inaugural lecture on the 'long overdue' need to reform laws regulating football spectators. 'Time for a Clear Out: Reforming the Laws Regulating Football Spectators', to be held at University of Manchester on...
Four new projects funded by N8 PRP Small Grants. N8 PRP are delighted to announce that four Small Grants have been funded, with research due to start in April 2022. All four projects will investigate the policing of exploitation and abuse, and have the potential to...
Cleveland Police has joined the 11 other forces in the North of England to become a partner of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP). The N8 PRP combines policing expertise and academic rigour to deliver research and knowledge exchange that assists forces to...
The Sixth N8 PRP Policing Innovation Forum continued on Thursday 27 May with a focused session on ‘Partnering Up Against Cybercrime’. The session was chaired by Justin Partridge, Postgraduate Researcher at Leeds University Business School and Visiting Fellow at the...
A £2.5 million bid supported by N8 PRP has been awarded to the Co-POWeR consortium, led by Professor Iyiola Solanke at the University of Leeds. Co-POWeR is a consortium from eight UK universities who have been funded by UKRI/ESRC to research the impact of COVID-19 and...
The sixth N8 PRP Policing Innovation Forum began on Wednesday with a lively and varied session on ‘What Works in Police Partnerships?’ The session was chaired by Professor Joanna Shapland, Edward Bramley Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Sheffield,...
