The University of Portsmouth Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (UoP P-ACE) is focused upon enhancing its academic-policing partnerships through knowledge mobilisation, undertaking and embedding pioneering research and driving ongoing research capacity and the development of police science literacy. The UoP P-ACE will create and consolidate evidence that directly addresses the strategic needs of policing, advance collaborative engagement with stakeholders by summarising and making accessible new and existing research evidence, and build research capacity and focus on the long-term educational development of policing professionals.

ARIs and related specialisms

Analytics

• Automation, AI and machine learning
• Data and AI ethics
• Predictive policing

Building and maintaining public trust

• Marginalised communities and racial disproportionality
• Public perception of policing

Crime prevention

• Cyber, online and virtual reality safety
• Fraud and economic crime
• Missing persons
• Terrorism and extremism
• Victim support
• Violence against women and girls and gender-based violence
• Wildlife crime

Personal safety

• Organisational culture and leadership

Identification and tracing

• Biometrics
• Facial recognition
• Forensic accounting
• Forensic science including digital

Surveillance and sensing

• Imaging technologies
• Interviewing of vulnerable populations
• Sensors, novel, remote and wearable