online event: Local Crime Data and Regional Disparities on Wednesday 25^th November 1-2pm outlined below. We will be joined by two presenters to hear how they have used local crime data in their research. Registration here.

Dr Eon Kim is a Lecturer in Criminology (Digital Technology) at the University of Manchester. Her research uses police and crime administrative data to study police demand, the police workforce, and how resourcing relates to crime.

Size isn’t everything: Police resourcing debates in England and Wales often come back to officer numbers. This presentation will present research findings using local data to explore officer numbers, support staff and crime across 42 police forces. Using publicly available official data, we built a panel of workforce and crime measures for 42 police forces from 2006 to 2019. The presentation will present the findings and also reflect on what open data can tell us about differences between forces.

Nina Robinson is a Senior Analyst with the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership and has over 20 years’ experience working in policing and crime analysis.

Not All High-Ranking Areas Are the Same: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Identifying Priority Locations: Strategic needs assessments require analysts to translate large volumes of data into actionable insights. This presentation describes a methodology developed within the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership to identify priority neighbourhoods using police recorded crime, victim, and offender data. These rankings are examined across different geographies and over time, enabling the identification of persistent and emerging locations of concern. The presentation will reflect on methodological decisions, limitations, and the value of combining quantitative outputs with practitioner judgement.