This summary highlights policing-related resources that have been added to the NPL collection in the last week.
Hampshire Constabulary, 2025. Inclusion matters: programme evaluation. Reading: University of Reading.
McNeil, T. 2025. Diversion in the West Midlands: A critical case study. London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
Hobday, N. 2025. Institutional complexity and contestation in a local policing collaboration tackling exploitation. Chester: University of Chester.
Bleese, R. 2025. A critical review of the police officer job related fitness test, its applicability to real world policing and if its discriminatory to protected characteristics. Wales: University of South Wales.
Lois, J. et al. 2025. Evaluating the effectiveness of a fatigue training intervention for the Seattle Police department: results from a randomized control trial. Journal of Experimental Criminology.
“Using a randomized control trial (RCT) experimental design, employees from the Seattle Police Department were exposed to a fatigue training intervention. Measurement included wrist actigraphy to objectively measure sleep, as well as a battery of validated surveys to measure sleep quality, sleepiness, depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptomatology.”
Lum, C. et al. 2025. Measuring the cost-effectiveness of new technologies in policing: the case of Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR). Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing.
“We review the findings of many impact tests of introducing ALPR readers in predominantly US police agencies.”
Noy, A. et al. 2025. Behind the yellow sticker: paradoxical effects of a visual warning of body-worn cameras on the use of police force. Journal of Experimental Criminology.
“A six-month cluster-randomised controlled trial involving spatiotemporal police units was conducted in Miami Beach, USA. The units were randomly assigned to the experimental group, which included officers who wore BWCs featuring multiple yellow stickers and “VIDEO & AUDIO” logo (used as a visual warning).”
Vale, G. 2025. Exploited for the cause? The potential for a cross-harm approach to children’s online engagement in terrorism. British Journal of Criminology.
“Through 30 interviews and two workshops with experts engaged in counter-terrorism, anti-exploitation and digital safety, it explores the parameters of what might constitute online child terrorist exploitation.”
White, A. 2025. Police culture, outsourcing and austerity: the rise and fall of the Lincolnshire Police-G4S strategic partnership. British Journal of Criminology.
“It advances our understanding of not only police outsourcing and backsourcing but also the market for policing under conditions of austerity”
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