Policing Research Partnership

Policing, community safety, crime prevention and victim services have all gone through unprecedented change in recent years. This provides an ideal opportunity for research collaboration and knowledge exchange between the research, policy and practitioner communities.

The N8 Research Partnership has established the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) to enable and foster research collaborations that will help address the problems of policing in the 21st century and achieve international excellence in policing research and impact.

The aim of N8 PRP is to establish and formalise a regional network of research and innovation in policing. It provides a platform for collaborations between universities, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), government, police forces, and other partners working in policing policy, governance and practice.

The ambition of N8 PRP is to produce knowledge that has a public purpose, engages with different groups and informs public debate. In pursuing this, N8 PRP offers opportunities for research at different scales including local, regional, national and international issues.

The N8 PRP is not restricted to the study of the police organisation but works on the basis that ‘policing’ consists of different agencies within and beyond the police. Given that policing is conducted for, with and by members of the public, a central element of the co-production model used involves public engagement, both during the research and in its dissemination.

N8 PRP website