The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (TYP-ACE) combines multi-disciplinary research and innovation capacity from across the University of Leeds and University of York to equip police and partners with the best research evidence available. TYP-ACE builds upon the pioneering work of the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre as well as the internationally renowned work of existing centres of excellence across both institutions, including the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics and Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at Leeds and the York Environmental Sustainability Institute and Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at York. It will generate, synthesise and share evidence-based problem-solving approaches to support police and partners in responding to crime, reducing harm, and enhancing community safety. It will help deliver research-informed organisational and culture change in policing.

ARIs and related specialisms

Analytics

• Automation, AI and machine learning
• Data and AI ethics
• Data linkage
• Police demand modelling
• Predictive policing
• Risk assessment
• Spatio-temporal analysis

Building and maintaining public trust

• Marginalised communities and racial disproportionality
• Minimum policing standards
• Public perception of policing

Crime prevention

• Anti-social behaviour
• Child sexual exploitation and abuse
• Child to parent violence
• County lines
• Cyber, online and virtual reality safety
• Domestic abuse and violence
• fear of crime
• Knife crime
• Mental health
• Modern slavery
• Situational crime prevention
• Violence against women and girls and gender-based violence
• Youth justice and youth crime

Climate crisis

• Climate change
• Net Zero
• Sustainability in policing