Funding
The OPCSA publishes funding calls and opportunities relevant to policing science and technology on this page.
If you are seeking potential funding partners or require a letter of support for your research, please contact [email protected].The team is keen to hear about your proposal and can provide appropriate advice and support.
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8 September 2026
New funding opportunity to strengthen public trust and confidence in policing
UKRI is inviting applications for a new Research and Innovation Consortium to develop innovative approaches to measuring and improving public trust and confidence in policing.
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24 June 2026
Domestic Abuse and Stalking Perpetrator Intervention Fund and Children Who Use Harm Intervention Fund
The Home Office is seeking to award to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs)/Mayoral equivalent to fund interventions for domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators…
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24 June 2026
Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme
We know that supporting children and young people to develop the skills and understanding they need to build healthy and respectful relationships is an important early step to preventing the emergence of harmful…
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23 June 2026
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY - Violence Against Women and Girls Advocacy Support Fund Pre-Market Engagement Registration
The Home Office is seeking to award to eligible organisations to support victims and others affected by violence against women and girls (VAWG) via the VAWG Advocacy Support Fund.
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23 June 2026
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY - Violence Against Women and Girls Helplines
The Home Office is seeking to award to eligible organisations to support victims and others affected by violence against women and girls (VAWG) via the VAWG Helplines Scheme.
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14 April 2026
UKRI Launch a £50m Research and Innovation Programme to Make Britain's Streets Safer
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched five Safer Streets Challenges backed by £50 million of funding, as part of the government's £500 million Research & Development Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAP).
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16 March 2026
Flashlight – Police Innovation Challenge
In a new collaboration, the Police Superintendents’ Association (PSA), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP), Accenture and the Open University Centre for Policing Research and Learning…
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20 August 2025
NABS+ Commissioning Call Now Open
The NABS+ Commissioning Call is now open! The call supports small-scale projects addressing emerging challenges such as AI, online harms, and information manipulation.
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23 December 2024
Royal Academic of Engineering - UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Government Office for Science offers UK Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to outstanding early career science or engineering researchers.
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6 October 2024
Police STAR Fund 25/26 – EOI now open
Funded by policing, for policing. The Police STAR Fund 25/26 call is seeking to fund force and regional innovation and research across science, technology, analysis, and research.
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24 September 2024
A new funding opportunity: Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs)
The NPCC and UKRI are funding the creation of up to nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) to help improve connections between policing and academic researchers…
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20 June 2024
Home Office Contracts for Innovation - Knife Detection Technologies - Phase 1
The Home Office is running a Contracts for Innovation competition to develop systems capable of automatically detecting knives concealed on a person, at a distance, to be used by police forces.
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4 March 2024
Transforming Data Collections Infrastructure for Social Science
Funding Opportunity: Transforming Data Collections Infrastructure for Social Science. Apply now to revolutionize social science research data. Themes: A) Scoping transformative infrastructure, B)…