ABSTRACT

Experimentation, innovation, and evaluation are key elements of Evidence Based Policing (EBP), itself often aligned to wider efforts to improve police professionalism. Producing new evidence of ‘what works’ is an important part of the challenge of developing more effective policing responses to complex demands in a period of limited resources. Drawing on our experience of understanding successful innovations in policing domestic abuse, we reflect on the quality and status of research evidence in policing and the implications that these might have in terms of informing good practice. We worked in collaboration with police staff to identify areas in which innovation in policing domestic abuse has been successful. Selected projects were required to meet the criteria of having been developed from an evidence base (broadly defined to include professional expertise, scientific research and guidance from authoritative bodies), subject to evaluation and as having had a demonstrable positive impact. Our collaborative work identified some interesting variations in terms of understandings of these three criteria in the context of innovations in policing domestic abuse. Here we reflect on what passes as evidence and evaluation and more broadly what counts as research which helps determine what works, all as part of our project to build capacity through collaborative partnership policing.

摘要

实验、创新和评估是循证警务 (EBP) 的关键要素，其本身通常与更广泛的提高警务专业水平的努力保持一致。在资源有限的时期内，针对复杂的需求制定更有效的警务应对措施，这是挑战的重要组成部分，即产生“什么有效”的新证据。借鉴我们理解成功的家庭虐待治安创新的经验，我们反思了治安研究证据的质量和状态，以及这些可能对良好实践产生的影响。我们与警察工作人员合作，确定在监管家庭虐待方面的创新取得成功的领域。选定的项目必须符合从证据基础（广义上包括专业知识、科学研究和权威机构的指导）开发、接受评估并具有明显的积极影响的标准。我们的合作工作确定了在对家庭虐待进行监管的创新背景下对这三个标准的理解方面的一些有趣的变化。在这里，我们反思什么是证据和评估，更广泛地说，什么是有助于确定哪些有效的研究，所有这些都是我们通过合作伙伴关系进行能力建设的项目的一部分。我们的合作工作确定了在对家庭虐待进行监管的创新背景下对这三个标准的理解方面的一些有趣的变化。在这里，我们反思什么是证据和评估，更广泛地说，什么是有助于确定哪些有效的研究，所有这些都是我们通过合作伙伴关系进行能力建设的项目的一部分。我们的合作工作确定了在对家庭虐待进行监管的创新背景下对这三个标准的理解方面的一些有趣的变化。在这里，我们反思什么是证据和评估，更广泛地说，什么是有助于确定哪些有效的研究，所有这些都是我们通过合作伙伴关系进行能力建设的项目的一部分。