Charting the progress of professionalization and evidence based practice in UK Policing

这项申请涉及一个预先批准的项目，其目的是绘制英国警务领域内专业化和循证实践的进展情况。该项目的初始阶段将是更好地了解基于证据的做法，并寻求确定英国警务部门目前在专业化方面的状况。然后，这将通过确定哪些部队嵌入了基于证据的方法，哪些部队没有使用这种方法，来确定项目的方向。这将允许随着项目的推进与个别部队接洽进行实地工作。重要的是要审查部队为什么使用不同的办法及其结果的效力。在与首席主管讨论了这个项目后，集中研究的具体领域可能会从最初的范围工作中出现，但鉴于我对足球警察和公共秩序感兴趣，我希望有机会进一步发展这一领域，作为该项目的一部分，因为这些领域适合于基于证据的实践和专业化研究，并将在我目前的论文主题的基础上再接再厉。我预计将采用混合方法策略进行研究，同时使用定性和定量方法来收集数据。

This application relates to a pre-approved project whose aim is to chart the progress of professionalization and evidence based practice within UK policing. The initial stage of the project would be to gain a greater understanding of evidence based practice and seek to identify the current position within UK policing with regards to professionalization. This would then inform the direction of the project by identifying Forces who have an evidence based approach embedded and those that do not utilise this method. This would allow individual Forces to be approached for fieldwork as the project moves forward. It would be important to examine why Forces use different approaches and their effectiveness as a result. Having discussed this project with the lead supervisor the specific areas for focused research are likely to emerge from the initial scoping work but given my interesting football policing and public order I would like the opportunity to further develop this as part of the project as these are areas that lend themselves to research on evidence based practice and professionalization and would build upon my current dissertation topic. I would anticipate employing a mixed method strategy to the research using both qualitative and quantitative methods to gather data.