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Practices from West Yorkshire Police

Title	Stage of practice	Purpose	Topic	Police region
Anti-social behaviour and vulnerability analytical tool (ASVAT)	Untested	Prevention	Anti-social behaviour, Neighbourhood crime, Digital, data and analytics	North East
Apps to improve investigation standards and quality	Untested	Organisational	Digital, data and analytics, Criminal justice, Investigation	North East
Black heritage advisory group (BHAG) forum	Untested	Organisational	Community engagement, Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI), Ethics and values	North East
Smarter Clear, hold, build – West Yorkshire Police and Merseyside Police		Prevention	Neighbourhood crime, Serious organised crime
Facial recognition to identify suspects of knife enabled robbery	Untested	Reoffending	Knife and gun crime, Robbery, Intelligence	North East
Forensic marking to deter repeat victimisation related to domestic abuse and sexual offences	Independently evaluated	Reoffending	Violence against women and girls, Domestic abuse	North West
JogOn campaign – preventing harassment and abuse for female runners	Untested	Prevention	Violence against women and girls, Anti-social behaviour, Community engagement	North East
Junior detectives programme	Untested	Prevention	Knife and gun crime, Community engagement	North East
Lifetime offender management (LOM) team to manage and disrupt high-risk serious organised crime (SOC) offenders	Untested	Reoffending	Offender management, Serious organised crime	Yorkshire
Managing persistent, regular, and vulnerable callers	Untested	Diversion	Adults at risk, Neighbourhood crime, Contact management	North East
Operation Capture - an online organisational learning platform	Untested	Organisational	Digital, data and analytics, Leadership, development and learning, Productivity	North East
Operation Orion – a problem-solving approach to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB)	Untested	Prevention	Anti-social behaviour, Neighbourhood crime, Drugs and alcohol offences	North East
Operation Soundwood – using public space protection orders (PSPOs) to prevent harassment of female students	Untested	Prevention	Violence against women and girls, Anti-social behaviour, Community engagement	North East
People impact assessments (PIA)	Untested	Organisational	Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI), Ethics and values, Leadership, development and learning	North East
Police education (Pol-Ed) programme	Independently evaluated	Prevention	Community engagement, Training and professional development	North East
Public space protection orders for anti-social driving	Untested	Reoffending	Anti-social behaviour, Neighbourhood crime, Roads policing	North East
Safeguarding reviews for young people’s stop and search encounters	Untested	Prevention	Ethics and values, Leadership, development and learning	North East
Safer Lives – Support for people identified as having possession of images of children	Independently evaluated	Reoffending	Public Protection, Safeguarding & Vulnerability, Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), Offender management	North East
Smarter Teachable moments focused deterrence car (FDC) – West Yorkshire Police		Diversion	Assault and violent crime, Violence (other), Community engagement
Trauma tracker to identify and monitor trauma exposure	Untested	Organisational	Leadership, development and learning, Wellbeing	North East
Virtual decisions – virtual reality (VR) workshop for children at risk of criminal exploitation	Untested	Prevention	Violence (other), Anti-social behaviour, Community engagement	North East