An Exploratory Knowledge Exchange Platform for Policing: Exploiting Knowledge Assets, Utilising Data and Piloting Research Co-production

该项目将建立一个战略性和创新性的知识交流和研究合作平台，为西约克郡警察局（WYP），西约克郡PCC办公室（OPCCWY）和利兹大学之间提供结构化的关系。该平台提供了一个模式，在以下四个警务专题领域试行不同的知识、人员和数据交流机制：伙伴关系;入室盗窃和入店行窃等获取性犯罪;社区参与和公共秩序。该方法是由跨学科研究卓越，知识交流创新和对警务和学术合作伙伴的持久影响相结合的驱动。它将寻求改变警察使用研究证据和见解的方式，以及研究人员在整个研究过程中提出研究问题和与警务专业人员接触的方式。该平台将提供双向交流，学习机会和数据开发，嵌入PCC的“创新，收入和投资”的战略重点。它将努力促进警官对研究证据在为警察实践提供信息方面的相关性、作用和价值的更高认识，以及对警察组织内的研究方法和技能的更高认识。与此同时，它将寻求促进对警察业务挑战的更好理解，并鼓励研究人员承担责任，帮助形成以证据为基础的应对措施。在此过程中，它将建立一种参与的学术文化，并致力于共同制作。四个中心将侧重于：（一）伙伴关系在促进组织变革中的作用，以及通过共同制作的研究分析这一点的方式;（二）利用大型警方数据集来解释和更好地了解抢劫和商店盗窃等掠夺性犯罪的空间和社会分布;（三）利用公共信息和社会信息，以促进社会发展。（iii）评估一个创新的社区参与项目;及（iv）公共秩序培训及评估培训对警务工作的影响。每个中心将受益于一个学术研究领导和一个提名的警察领导借调从WYP。世界青年项目将贡献工作人员的时间、场地和资源来准备重要的数据集（包括10年来整个西约克郡的入室盗窃和入店行窃数据）。这项新的合作将开发创新的方法来解决警察面临的挑战，并将提供：从一开始就合作制定研究问题;知识和数据的双向流动;相互参与研究方案从开始到传播;共同拥有研究及其成果或产品;通过在与警察管理人员直接相关的项目上开展合作，加强研究对政策和实践的影响;为政策和实践建立证据基础，并促进创新;该项目的工作将由一个指导小组监督，指导小组成员包括世界青年计划高级指挥小组的成员，并由警察投诉委员会主持，该小组将每两个月举行一次会议。每个专题中心都将制作易于理解的政策简报，概述调查结果，整个方案也将如此。虽然最初的活动集中在西约克郡，但其目的是使该地区（通过N8警务研究伙伴关系）以及国家和国际辩论和实践受益。这一更广泛的传播将由一个咨询委员会监督和促进，该委员会的成员来自警务学院、ACPO、减少犯罪行之有效中心和N8。

The project will build a strategic and innovative knowledge exchange and research co-production platform, providing a structured relationship between West Yorkshire Police (WYP), the Office of the PCC for West Yorkshire (OPCCWY) and the University of Leeds. The platform provides a model in which different mechanisms of knowledge, people and data exchange are piloted in four thematic areas of policing: partnerships; acquisitive crimes of burglary and shoplifting; community engagement and public order. The approach is driven by a combination of interdisciplinary research excellence, innovations in knowledge exchange and lasting impact on both policing and academic partners. It will seek to change the ways in which the police use evidence and insights from research as well as the ways in which researchers frame research questions and engage with policing professionals across the life-course of research. The platform will provide a two-way exchange, learning opportunities and data exploitation that embed the PCC's strategic priorities of 'innovation, income and investment'. It will seek to foster a greater appreciation among police officers for the relevance, role and value of research evidence in informing police practice, as well as a greater awareness of research methodologies and skills within the police organisation. At the same time, it will seek to foster greater understanding of the operational police challenges and encourage responsibility amongst researchers for helping shape evidence-based responses to these. In so doing, it will build an academic culture of engagement and a commitment to co-production.The four hubs will focus on: (i) the role of partnerships in promoting organisational change and the manner in which this can be analysed through co-produced research; (ii) the exploitation of large police datasets to explain and better understand the spatial and social distribution of the acquisitive crimes of burglaries and shoplifting; (iii) the evaluation of an innovative community engagement project; and (iv) public order training and the evaluation of the impact of training on police practice. Each hub will benefit from one academic research lead and one nominated police lead seconded from WYP. WYP will contribute staff time, venues and resources associated with the preparation of significant datasets (including 10 years of burglary and shoplifting data across West Yorkshire).This new collaboration will develop innovative ways to address the challenges faced by the police and will provide for: collaborative framing of the research questions from the outset; the two-way flow of knowledge and data; mutual engagement with research programmes from their inception to dissemination; joint ownership of research and its outcomes or products; enhanced research impact on policy and practice through collaboration on projects that are directly relevant to police managers; the production of an evidence-base for policy and practice, and to enable innovation; the exploitation of knowledge exchange including training opportunities; opportunities for the development of research expertise and capacity among police officers and staff; and the development of skills within policing to get research evidence used over the longer-term.The work of the project will be overseen by a Steering Group including members of the WYP senior command team and chaired by the PCC, which will meet bi-monthly. Each of the thematic hubs will produce accessible policy briefings outlining the findings as will the programme as a whole. Whilst the initial activity is focused on West Yorkshire, it is intended that benefits will attend to the region (via the N8 Policing Research Partnership) as well as national and international debate and practice. This wider dissemination will be overseen and promoted by an Advisory Board with members drawn from the College of Policing, ACPO, What Works Centre for Crime Reduction and N8.