Our research

The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence generates, synthesizes, and shares research to support police in addressing complex issues. TYP-ACE provides expertise in the following key areas:

• Crime Prevention: including on issues such as county lines; online child sexual exploitation; domestic abuse; modern slavery, mental health; violence against women and girls; knife crime; domestic violence; child-to-parent violence; youth crime, anti-social behaviour and early intervention.
• Public Trust: including public perceptions; police legitimacy; minimum policing standards; procedural justice; trust and confidence among minoritised and marginalised communities.
• Data Analytics: including spatio-temporal concentrations of crime; public-service data linkage; crime risk forecasting; AI-driven analyses of unstructured police data; police demand modelling; risk assessment tools.
• Climate Crisis: including responding to global warming; scenario planning; climate adaptation; climate mitigation and sustainable policing futures; partnership working and community resilience; net zero challenges.