The College is the designated 'What Works' Centre for Crime Reduction: one of five new centres supported by the Cabinet Office. Using the best evidence available, the What Works Centre will transform the way the police service and its partners tackle crime reduction priorities, in a way that delivers the greatest return on the public's investment.

To develop the evidence base for 'what works' in crime reduction and policing, the College delivers, and enables its members to deliver, a range of products that meet defined standards. These include:

• a wide range of research publications including reviews of the 'what works' evidence and new research and analysis building the evidence base in priority areas
• a project methods advisory panel with academic representation to work collaboratively with forces to deliver gold-standard research evidence
• national research and development priorities to focus resources from academia and other sectors on knowledge gaps
• the research map - a steadily growing resource of policing-related research within academia
• practitioner tools, informed by research and analysis, to develop skills within the police service so that policing professionals can identify what works.

For more information about these, see the Research, Analysis and Information page.

The College meets the relevant standards when producing its statistics, research, analysis and interpretation. It will provide support to ensure that research carried out by the police service meets the same standards in order to ensure transparency and rigour.

Additionally, our practical advice and support work across a wide range of subject areas enables us to build an information base about what is happening on the ground in policing, draws together practical material for sharing and potential case studies, and provides insight into themes for further research.