Find and share practice with organisations who are interested in crime reduction and criminal justice.
The practice bank is made up of shared interventions that have been implemented by crime reduction and community safety organisations, including policing. These have been used to address specific crime problems or organisational change.
You can use the practice bank to identify potential interventions for your own problem solving. Search for practices using the filters.
You can also share your own interventions to be considered for the practice bank.
Browse the practice bank
Title | Summary | Does it work? | Focus | Organisation |
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Jointly delivered NHS and police presentation to increase confidence in the police and encourage reporting of hate crime. |
Untested – new or innovative | Prevention | ||
Focuses on humanising officers and educating the public around the diversity of roles that exist in the Metropolitan Police Service. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational | ||
An opportunity for community leaders to talk about their communities and help identify how the police can work to build trust and confidence. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational | ||
Combining data and feedback to target police activity and improve relationships with local communities. |
Untested – new or innovative | Prevention | ||
A programme created by Devon and Cornwall Police that leads to an inclusive leadership intervention. |
Promising | Prevention | ||
Employees taking time out to have supported conversations about diversity, equality and inclusion topics for learning. |
Promising | Organisational | ||
Bespoke training on the voice of the child, Victims' Code of Practice videos, forensic specialist child interviews and an intranet site around learning and tools. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational | ||
Community events held to proactively engage with local black communities. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational | ||
Using a community engagement initiative to encourage engagement and empowerment within communities. |
Promising | Prevention, Diversion, Reoffending | ||
A toolkit for use by community scrutiny panels when assessing body worn videos to establish if the correct level of force was used, then provide officers with consistent and constructive feedback |
Promising | Organisational | Att10tive
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Lesson resources for schools, to teach children and young people about the law, policing and safeguarding. |
Promising | Prevention | ||
Internal police team to scrutinise stop searches and uses of force. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational | ||
Workshops to support staff and officers from underrepresented groups with promotion or assessment processes. |
Promising | Organisational | ||
Improving young people's life skills and their ability to regulate their own behaviour and challenge others, to reduce risk of harm. |
Promising | Diversion | ||
Using training, an everyday sexism recording tool and a resource toolkit to increase reporting of sexual harassment-related concerns and to address them consistently. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational | ||
Using education and advocacy to collaboratively address disproportionate use of stop and search on people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and the negative impact this has on public engagement with the police. |
Untested – new or innovative | Prevention | ||
Engaging with survivors of sexual and domestic violence through an independent advisor coordinator, to learn about their lived experience and promote change in the criminal justice system. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational | ||
A dedicated police team based in London's major trauma centre hospital to assist with evidence and investigations related to victims of violent crime attending hospital. |
Untested – new or innovative | Reoffending | ||
Police worked with a local charity and volunteer Somalian community leaders to visit Somalian children and young people in public places. They discussed issues important to the young people, aiming to improve police engagement. |
Untested – new or innovative | Organisational |
About linked practices
Some practice examples are linked to other sources. You can use the 'Linked to' filter to identify these groups of practice.
You can find practice:
- identified in inspection reports published by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Service (HMICFRS)
- identified as Smarter practice that has been tried in a force and reviewed by the College of Policing, HMICFRS and the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), and is considered suitable for further testing
- which has won a Tilley award for problem oriented projects that achieved measurable success in resolving issues faced by the police, partners and the community
- which received funding for local innovation across science, technology, analysis, and research (Police STAR Fund)
Sharing your practice
You can share your intervention with other organisations to help them tackle similar problems.
Anyone from organisations with an interest in community safety and reducing crime can share implemented practice including:
- promising practice
- new or innovative practice (untested)
- examples of interventions that didn’t work
Your intervention does not have to be evaluated but should include some learning that can be shared.
We may ask for some more information about your practice example before we publish it. If you share practice, we will contact you 12 months after adding it to the bank to ask for updates.