impact and insights
Police Now was founded in 2015 with a mission to recruit, develop and inspire leaders in policing.
We do this by attracting, recruiting and training graduates with leadership potential to be inspirational detectives and neighbourhood police officers who transform communities.
The impact that Police Now participants, alumni and partners have is at the core of everything we do, underpinned by a commitment to evaluation and continuous improvement. To monitor progress against our Case for Change and develop our programmes using an evidence-based approach, we gather and analyse data covering attraction, recruitment, diversity and inclusion, participant experience, attitudes and progression. Despite the challenges of doing so, Police Now also analyses data on crime, anti-social behaviour (ASB) and public confidence in the police in the communities where Police Now participants are posted, working in partnership with independent researchers and academic partners.
This page shares some of the insights available from our evaluations and wider research to date. Whether you are new to Police Now or are familiar with our work, we hope this research provides further insight into our progress to date and shows how we are using evidence and feedback to drive improvements in our programmes and better understand the impact of Police Now participants and their colleagues.
Please contact us if you would like to learn more about our impact and insights or to discuss potential research collaboration opportunities.
View our 2022/2023 Impact Report
Further research and insights
Policing research and insights
Police Now Insight Briefings
Mental health and wellbeing in the police service (2020)
Procedural justice (2020)
Secondments (2019)
Workforce Insights
Insight and data from Police Now’s experience of recruiting, training and developing graduates in policing (2020/21)
Insight and data from Police Now’s experience of recruiting, training and developing graduates in policing (2019/20)
Evaluations of the Police Now programmes
Independent evaluation of the Police Now National Detective Programme pilot
Summary of Interim Findings Report (2019-2021)
CCCU evaluation of the Police Now National Detective Programme pilot
Final Report (2019-2021)
Initial findings from the independent evaluation of Police Now’s first National Detective Programme
Canterbury Christ Church University (2020)
Assessing transmission and translation of learning about evidence-based policing
Published in Policing: A journal of Policy and Practice (Volume 14, Issue 1, 2020)
Applying research beyond the Ivory Tower: Reflections from Police Now
Published in Policing: A journal of Policy and Practice (Volume 14, Issue 1, 2020)
Developing an evidence-based police degree holder entry programme
Research conducted by MOPAC using Police Now as a ‘test bed’ for research (2018)
MOPAC evaluation of Police Now’s first cohort (2015-2017)
Evidence and Insight Team, MOPAC (2017)
Blog post by Gavin Hales, Police Foundation (2018)
Police Now Reflections (2018)
Independent evaluation of Police Now’s seventh cohort of the National Graduate Leadership Programme (2021-2023)
Evaluation of the Police Now National Graduate Leadership Programme (2021-2023)