Although the science behind hot spot policing is robust and grounded in theory, implementation issues prevent it from becoming commonplace in everyday policing. The mounting evidence suggests that “hot spot policing” (Sherman and Weisburd 1995) is rarely applied in police routines. The paper critically discusses three common problems with the implementation of this approach into policy: officers' motivation, organisational resistance, and technological failures. Two competing solutions are proposed to these endemic issues: instituting specialised hot spot policing units or outsourcing the job of ‘cooling down’ hot spots to alternative non-police entities, partially or wholly.

尽管热点警务背后的科学是可靠的并且有理论基础，但实施问题使其无法在日常警务中变得司空见惯。越来越多的证据表明，“热点警务”（Sherman and Weisburd 1995）很少应用于警察日常工作中。本文批判性地讨论了将这种方法实施到政策中的三个常见问题：官员的动机、组织阻力和技术故障。针对这些普遍存在的问题，提出了两种相互竞争的解决方案：建立专门的热点警务单位，或将“冷却”热点的工作部分或全部外包给其他非警察实体。