Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

Our aim is to produce policing research that is effective, fair, ethical, and trusted by the public.

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Project Partners

快播视频s Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) will be a centre that promotes multidisciplinary, multi-modal and multi-sectorial research into policing Areas of Research Interest (ARI's)

快播视频 is already a member of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8PRP), a collaboration between 8 research-intensive universities and 11 police forces in the North of England. In addition, L-PACE works with national forces including Police Scotland, the NCA, Counter Terrorism Police, GCHQ & NCSC, Border Force and Immigration. L-PACE aims to consolidate these existing network connections and work with other 快播视频 based projects like & , to grow & develop new partnerships to widen the reach and opportunities for the co-creation and knowledge exchange.

Commercial Partners

L-PACE will work with commercial partners signed up to the Police Industry Charter to meet emerging technological policing challenges, and work to harness 快播视频’s expertise in the analysis of digital visual data, natural language data and ambient sensor data in the service of police ARIs.

  • Partnering with government and law enforcement, we tackle the most challenging data and technology problems of today, paving the way for a smarter and safer tomorrow.?

  • Principle One is a specialist consultancy working within public sector. Offering a broad range of systems engineering, data science and consulting services, they support UK Law Enforcement respond to an evolving threat landscape and take advantage of technological change. This ranges from early stage discovery work and innovation through to full-lifecycle delivery to drive transformation across policing.

  • Our team are Subject Matter Experts working across Law Enforcement, Public Safety, Telecommunications, Central Government and Local Authority domains, providing transparent and independent advice and support to clients.

Policing Sector

L-PACE will work with police forces and companies signed up to the (launched in March 2024) to inform product and service development through the highest quality evidence base. Our aim is to create a community of researchers addressing policing’s issues, stimulating world-class, open access research that has the potential to improve the quality and scale of policing research across UK policing.