Policing the Pandemic
Crest's joint report with the Police Foundation sets out how UK policing responded to the challenges of the first 12 months of the pandemic
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OUR NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SECTOR
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- Jul 14, 2021
Project: Reducing flows into the criminal justice system
Crest is undertaking further research to understand how out of court disposals can be used to reduce pressure on the courts.
- Mar 10, 2021
Policing after the Pandemic
Chief constables and PCCs must decide whether policing should return to how it was before the pandemic.
- Jan 24, 2021
Survive. Recover. Rebuild. Justice post Covid-19
Without any further action, the court backlog is projected to rapidly increase and reach an unmanageable level by 2024.
- Jan 21, 2021
Policing the COVID lockdown - what the public thinks nine months on
We’ve been monitoring the public’s attitude towards the way the health emergency has been policed, through polling conducted by You Gov.
- Dec 22, 2020
Policing the long crisis: an appraisal of the police response to COVID-19
... A crisis in policing, however acute, is typically localised and limited in duration to a few days or, ... a couple of months.
- Nov 18, 2020
Prisons and Covid-19 – what went right?
Like the country as a whole, prisons in England and Wales are now in their second period of lockdown.
- Oct 30, 2020
A perfect storm: why the criminal justice system is facing an existential crisis
As part of our research into the impact of Covid-19 on the justice system, Crest has developed a ‘stock and flow’ model.
- Oct 21, 2020
Policing the pandemic: public attitudes to police visibility, enforcement and fairness
We set out the emerging findings from focus groups in London, the West Midlands and Greater Manchester.
- Jul 20, 2020
Project: Understanding the lessons of policing the Covid-19 pandemic
Crest alongside The Police Foundation, the UK’s policing think tank, are undertaking new research into how policing has coped with Covid-19.
- May 19, 2020
Project: County Lines and Looked After Children
Crest is researching the criminal exploitation of looked after children in two police force areas, North Wales and Merseyside.
- May 19, 2020
County Lines after COVID - a new threat?
Since lockdown began, the received wisdom reported in the media has been that the threat from county lines operated by OCGs would reduce.
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