The UCL P-ACE is based in the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London, a centre of research on crime prevention, public trust, and new policing technologies. The P-ACE's over-arching aim is to accelerate the use of research evidence to foster meaningful change in police practice in ways aligned with what the public wants, needs and expects from policing. The UCL P-ACE will concentrate on the development of new policing tools and techniques, the transfer and exchange of knowledge and skills, and the conditions under which the public will accept new ways of policing and the challenge of legitimacy.

Lancaster Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) will create a step-change in the ability of Lancaster’s social and behavioural sciences to have a practical and operational impact on policing Areas of Research Interests (ARI). The aims of L-PACE include: increasing the number and range of academics involved in police ARI projects; fostering new relationships between academics and police forces; providing practical solutions to current policing problems; sparking new ideas that can be built into more substantial projects; and tackling the policing skills and recruitment gap by creating a pathway for students considering a career in data related policing.

The University of Bath P-ACE brings together multi-disciplinary expertise to provide a fast-track, two-way knowledge mobilisation platform between police and academia. It will collaborate with a diversity of policing partners, both existing and new, in an innovative way to address policing challenges and provide an excellent and agile response to identified policing needs. Working collaboratively with policing, the University of Bath P-ACE will develop operationally useful tools and training and ensure the co-creation of new research and knowledge exchange projects that respond to the needs of modern policing.

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.

The NTU-PACE brings together 15 policing, industry and community partners to translate research findings into actionable, transferable, and sustainable policy interventions. It will consolidate and expand its already extensive experience of working with police and industrial partners to mobilise knowledge and co-create dissemination materials in a format that is accessible to police and their stakeholders, and translate research findings into actionable policy and practice. The NTU P-ACE will implement fast-track knowledge mobilisation through multiple digital platforms to support an inclusive and diverse approach to accessibility, and develop sustainable, evidence-informed approaches to advance the effectiveness of UK policing.