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Our new series of updates on new studies relevant to policing practice have been published in the last few weeks. In this bulletin the research spans recruitment and organisational fairness, hotspot detection, violence against women and girls, investigative practice, policing technology, officer wellbeing, and the use of artificial intelligence in policing. Below is a selection of recent empirical studies and evaluations with potential implications for policing policy and pra

The Police Graduate Research Showcase is now open for submissions.

This opinion piece is one of several I have recently written with the help of generative AI, which I use to organise ideas that have been sitting in my head for too long. The thoughts are mine; the tools help me get the first draft on the page. You should try it. Policing has historically struggled to base practice on rigorous evidence. Decisions were often guided by tradition, instinct, or perceived good practice rather than by robust evaluation or empirical testing. That is