Hot spot policing in England and Wales, year ending March 2023
This report evaluates the impact of government-funded hot spot policing in 20 police forces in England and Wales in the year ending March 2023.
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This report evaluates the impact of government-funded hot spot policing in 20 police forces in England and Wales in the year ending March 2023. Unlike in the previous year, when the programme reduced violence and robbery offences in the hot spots, this report does not find a statistically significant impact on crime for the year ending March 2023. However, the analysis does show that the programme improved the number and rate of positive crime outcomes within hot spots in both years. This means that more crimes were solved in the hot spots and more weapons and drugs were found as a result of the programme. The report also discusses possible reasons for these effects.