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

本申请涉及一个预先批准的项目，其目的是绘制英国警务专业化和循证实践的进展。该项目的初始阶段将是更好地了解以证据为基础的做法，并寻求确定联合王国警务工作在专业化方面的现状。然后，这将通过确定具有基于证据的方法的部队和不使用这种方法的部队来告知项目的方向。这样，随着项目的推进，就可以与各部队接触，进行实地工作。必须审查部队为何采用不同的办法及其因此产生的效力。在与首席主管讨论了这个项目后，重点研究的具体领域可能会从最初的范围界定工作中出现，但鉴于我有趣的足球警务和公共秩序，我希望有机会进一步发展这一点，作为项目的一部分，因为这些领域有助于研究基于证据的实践和专业化，并将建立在我目前的论文主题上。我预计采用混合方法策略的研究使用定性和定量的方法来收集数据。

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.