Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

Our aim is to produce policing research that is effective, fair, ethical, and trusted by the public.

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Project Partners

Lancasters Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (L-PACE) will be a centre that promotes multidisciplinary, multi-modal and multi-sectorial research into policing Areas of Research Interest (ARI's)

Lancaster is already a member of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8PRP), a collaboration between 8 research-intensive universities and 11 police forces in the North of England. In addition, L-PACE works with national forces including Police Scotland, the NCA, Counter Terrorism Police, GCHQ & NCSC, Border Force and Immigration. L-PACE aims to consolidate these existing network connections and work with other Lancaster based projects like CREST & NABS+, to grow & develop new partnerships to widen the reach and opportunities for the co-creation and knowledge exchange.

Commercial Partners

L-PACE will work with commercial partners signed up to the Police Industry Charter to meet emerging technological policing challenges, and work to harness Lancaster’s expertise in the analysis of digital visual data, natural language data and ambient sensor data in the service of police ARIs.

  • Naimuri

    Partnering with government and law enforcement, we tackle the most challenging data and technology problems of today, paving the way for a smarter and safer tomorrow.‍

  • Principleone

    Principleone works with a diverse range of government organisations, helping them tackle a variety of challenges and responding to an ever-evolving threat landscape.

  • DAINTTA

    Our team are Subject Matter Experts working across the National Security, Law Enforcement, Telecommunications, Central Government and Local Authority domains, providing transparent and independent advice and support to clients.

Policing Sector

L-PACE will work with police forces and companies signed up to the Police Industry Charter (launched in March 2024) to inform product and service development through the highest quality evidence base. Our aim is to create a community of researchers addressing policing’s issues, stimulating world-class, open access research that has the potential to improve the the quality and scale of policing research across UK policing.