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The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (typ-ace)

The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (typ-ace) harnesses cutting-edge research to inform innovative evidence-based solutions to the most pressing challenges facing policing today.

The centre combines multi-disciplinary research and innovation from the University of Leeds and the University of York to equip police and partners across the UK with the best research evidence available to drive forward a culture change in policing.

Typ-ace is one of nine Policing-Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) funded by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Each P-ACE is promoted across the policing sector as an accessible source of leading academic experts aligned with Policing’s Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) and evidence needs.

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policing@leeds.ac.uk

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.

The team

Typ-ace is led by Professor Dan Birks (University of Leeds) and Professor Adam Crawford (University of York), who have international reputations in delivering innovations in policing research.

The team also includes four Areas of Research Interest (ARI) leads from the University of Leeds and University of York, who lead each of typ-ace's areas of research interest.

These are:

ESRC
NPCC
P-ACE

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Contact us

policing@leeds.ac.uk