Practice bank

Find and share practice with organisations who are interested in crime reduction and criminal justice.

The practice bank is made up of shared interventions that have been implemented by crime reduction and community safety organisations, including policing. These have been used to address specific crime problems or organisational change. 

You can use the practice bank to identify potential interventions for your own problem solving. Search for practices using the filters.

You can also share your own interventions to be considered for the practice bank.

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Title Does it work? Focus Topic Organisation
Clear, hold, build Promising Prevention, Diversion Anti-social behaviour, Child sexual exploitation and abuse, Community engagement, Crime prevention, Criminal justice, Drugs and alcohol, Intelligence and investigation, Neighbourhood crime, Violence (other)
Early advice protocol Promising Organisational Child sexual exploitation and abuse, Violence against women and girls, Vulnerability and safeguarding
Echo – feedback from callers, victims, residents and employees Untested – new or innovative Organisational Anti-social behaviour, Community engagement, Digital, Neighbourhood crime, Organisation including workforce
Forensic marking to deter repeat victimisation related to domestic abuse and sexual offences Promising Prevention, Reoffending Offender management, Violence against women and girls, Vulnerability and safeguarding
Habitual knife carrier index Untested – new or innovative Prevention, Diversion Crime prevention, Violence (other)
Homicide prevention rapid debrief process Promising Prevention Crime prevention, Leadership, development and learning, Offender management, Violence against women and girls, Violence (other)
Inclusion moments – learning and conversations around diversity, equality and inclusion topics Promising Organisational Diversity and inclusion, Ethics and values, Leadership, development and learning, Organisation including workforce
Initial visits to victims of non-recent child abuse Untested – new or innovative Reoffending Child sexual exploitation and abuse, Criminal justice, Violence against women and girls, Vulnerability and safeguarding
Panic alarms for domestic abuse victims Promising Prevention Crime prevention, Criminal justice, Intelligence and investigation, Leadership, development and learning, Operational policing, Violence against women and girls, Violence (other), Vulnerability and safeguarding
Positive Steps mentoring network Promising Organisational Diversity and inclusion, Ethics and values, Leadership, development and learning, Organisation including workforce
Prevention First – training and guidance in prevention practice Promising Prevention, Organisational Crime prevention, Operational policing, Organisation including workforce
Professional development and action learning sets (PeDALS) Untested – new or innovative Organisational Diversity and inclusion, Leadership, development and learning
Prolific burglar intensive programme Untested – new or innovative Reoffending Anti-social behaviour, Community engagement, Crime prevention, Criminal justice, Offender management, Operational policing
Railway Guardian safe rail travel app Untested – new or innovative Prevention Violence against women and girls, Violence (other), Vulnerability and safeguarding
Reducing theft of catalytic converters Promising Prevention Crime prevention, Intelligence and investigation, Neighbourhood crime, Operational policing
Roadside posters to improve driving Promising Prevention Crime prevention
Safer Nights Out van – tackling vulnerability in the night-time economy Untested – new or innovative Prevention Community engagement, Crime prevention, Drugs and alcohol, Operational policing, Violence against women and girls, Vulnerability and safeguarding
Survivor engagement – domestic and sexual abuse Untested – new or innovative Organisational Criminal justice, Diversity and inclusion, Ethics and values, Leadership, development and learning, Operational policing, Violence against women and girls, Vulnerability and safeguarding
Using cyber volunteers to prevent online child victimisation Promising Prevention, Diversion Anti-social behaviour, Child sexual exploitation and abuse, Community engagement, Crime prevention, Cybercrime including fraud, Digital, Vulnerability and safeguarding

About linked practices

Some practice examples are linked to other sources. You can use the 'Linked to' filter to identify these groups of practice.

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Sharing your practice

You can share your intervention with other organisations to help them tackle similar problems.

Anyone from organisations with an interest in community safety and reducing crime can share implemented practice including:

  • promising practice
  • new or innovative practice (untested)
  • examples of interventions that didn’t work

Your intervention does not have to be evaluated but should include some learning that can be shared.

We may ask for some more information about your practice example before we publish it. If you share practice, we will contact you 12 months after adding it to the bank to ask for updates.

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