If precision policing tries to be too precise, will it deliver the promised results?

7th October 2024Rory Geoghegan, Policing Insight 1 Comment

While ‘precision policing’ has become an essential element of the turnaround plans for the Met as well as a focus for other forces, Policing Insight’s Rory Geoghegan, a former officer and founder of The Public Safety Foundation, examines how precision approaches – against a backdrop of falling stop and search rates and an emphasis on ‘positive outcomes’ – could see this policing tool become ineffective as a general crime deterrent.

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If precision policing tries to be too precise, will it deliver the promised results?

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