Universities' Police Science Institute

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Universities' Police Science Institute [UPSI]
Established2007 [1]
Director Martin Innes [2]
Website http://www.upsi.org.uk/
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The Universities' Police Science Institute, or UPSI as it is more commonly known, is a joint venture between South Wales Police, Cardiff University and the University of South Wales. The Universities' Police Science Institute (UPSI) was formed in 2007 to develop research into Policing; Since its inception the Universities' Police Science Institute has achieved international renown for its innovations in designing, developing and assessing new solutions to policing problems. [3]

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About UPSI

The Universities' Police Science Institute is responsible for conducting research in areas, such as, Major Crime Investigations, Neighbourhood Policing and Crime Analysis. [4]

In addition to their main research the UPSI team have a vast expertise within Policing generally and have helped to influence ACPO, Home Office and HMIC policies over the last decade; Especially within the areas of:

Notable Staff

Research

The Universities' Police Science Institute receives the majority of its research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Since its launch in 2007 UPSI has received over 2 million in external research funding. [6]

Currently UPSIs' research is focused on three main areas namely:

Projects

Currently the Universities' Police Science Institute (UPSI) is working on three major projects inconjunction with its Research; These projects involve other Partner Agencies, such as, South Wales Police and the Police Academy of Netherlands.

UPSIs' three projects are namely;

Tackling Radicalisation in Dispersed Societies (TaRDiS):

Tackling Radicalisation in Dispersed Societies (TaRDis) is a multi-agency project involving the London Borough of Sutton, the Police Academy of the Netherlands and UPSI funded by the European Commission. TaRDis objectives is to explore how the risks of radicalisation can be reduced in communities where there are no defined population centres or clusters. [8]

Community Policing and Community Intelligence:

Community Policing and Community Intelligence is an ongoing project between South Wales Police and the Universities' Police Science Institute exploring the application of community intelligence in areas of 'policing' priorities within South Wales. [9]

Safer Sutton Partnership:

The Safer Sutton Partnership is a joint venture between the London Borough of Sutton and other agencies, including UPSI. The Safer Sutton Partnership is in its fifth consecutive year and is designed to use community intelligence gathering methodology to understand local community concerns and inform interventions to address them through Neighbourhood Policing. [10]

Publications

Since 2007 UPSI have published multiple journals, research reports, briefing notes and official reports for the Home Office, HMIC, ACPO and numerous other agencies; The most well-known UPSI Publications are:

Related Research Articles

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