Chief Constable Peter Neyroud Chief Executive National Policing Improvement Agency

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Campbell Collaboration Colloquium15th May 2007
Chief Constable Peter NeyroudChief
ExecutiveNational Policing Improvement Agency
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• Our vision
• To support the police service in reducing crime,
  maintaining order, bringing criminals to justice
  and protecting
• and reassuring the public

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External Priorities for NPIA

• To improve
• Intelligence, information and interoperability
• Core Police Processes
• Innovation in Science Technology
• People
• Critical National Policing Infrastructure
• Responsiveness Accountability
• to enable the police service to reduce crime,
  maintain order, bring criminals to justice and to
  protect and reassure the public.

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Our Values

• Police service led and owned
• A trusted and effective partner, respected by its
  stakeholders and staff
• Prepared to make unpopular decisions and to take
  responsibility for the promises it makes
• Committed to, and encouraging, a climate of
  self-improvement and being an example of good
  practice.
• Delivering good value
• A place where diverse staff can bring a range of
  different skills to the common good of supporting
  the delivery of better policing.

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NPIA Research, Analysis and Information Unit
The goal of NPIA Research, Analysis and
Information (RAI) is to provide knowledge through
information management, analysis and research to
the standard needed for strategic and operational
decision making.

• Understanding the environment and evaluating
  options research, analyse and evaluate the
  various diverse drivers for change in policing
• Assessing (including through evaluation) proposed
  products/services and how they would impact on
  the current portfolio
• Applying effective delivery methods (as
  identified from evidence of their efficacy and
  efficiency)

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Model for managing business change
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The external environment

• Government review of policing policy guide
  policy/operational change possibly leading to new
  requirements for knowledge summaries and
  development
• Balancing neighbourhood policing with increased
  interest in public protection and CT
• Changes in organisation and responsibilities of
  government departments
• Dramatic reduction in Home Office research
  capacity, limited research capacity in SOCA
• Limited capacity mixed interest/skills mix
  amongst academics in practical and operational
  policing issues
• Stakeholders perceptions and expectations

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Delivering more effective policing through
sound implementation following from quality
evidence-based research
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Delivering more effective policing
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What are the challenges?

• Focus has been on interventions, not the problems
• Most policing problems still at definitional
  stage

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What are the challenges?

• Neighbourhood Policing
• Organised Crime
• Counter Terrorism

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Neighbourhood Policing

• National Reassurance Policing Programme
• Example where the problem was successfully
  identified - the reassurance gap
• Challenge - how long the research is sustainable
• History growing body of research on
  reassurance which was not being applied
• Failures due to poor implementation

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NRPP main programme effects
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NRPP main programme effects
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Neighbourhood Policing

• Research must relate to outcomes importance of
  management information
• BUT also need evidence base on how to improve
  implementation Neighbourhood Policing unique in
  doing this so far
• Potential to replicate this model in other areas
  of business
• Sustainability

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Organised Crime

• A definitional problem
• How do we research this area?
• Difficulties of researching groups with a vested
  interest in not cooperating

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Organised Crime

• How do we know whether we are effective?
• Use of evidence-based research to identify
  deployment of resources
• Research
• Social network analysis
• Harm caused - index of success
• Evidence of harm caused use to define
  operational outcomes and measure success then
  quantify the benefits

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Counter Terrorism

• A similar problem of definition
• How do we research invisibles?
• Academic disciplines different slants from
  anthropologists psychologists how do we
  assess evidence from different theoretical
  standpoints?
• Little research done so far one report from
  Campbell on airport security
• Possible approaches
• Harm
• Social anthropology
• Legitimacy
• Unpick current strategies measure effectiveness

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Moving forward

• A challenge for the audience we need help to
  research the problems before moving on to
  interventions
• How do we work with a mix of different
  methodologies to achieve the end result of more
  effective policing?
• NPIA working in partnership - facilitation
• Engagement with practitioners