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Problem Solving and Crime Prevention Programme

Date published: 01 March 2021 08:05

About the programme

South Yorkshire Police has secured further funding from the Home Office to continue the Problem Solving Programme for another year, post March 2020, to build on its work to reduce demand by embedding a structured problem solving ethos and capability nationally.

Our programme, which will now be referred to as the Problem Solving and Crime Prevention programme, aims to achieve eleven key deliverables to assist in reducing demand and preventing crime.

To find out more about what the Problem Solving and Demand Reduction Programme delivered, view the Programme’s ‘So What’ booklet below.

All materials produced throughout the lifetime of the Programme (2017-2020) are also available to view on the Programme’s Knowledge Hub, here.

For more information on the programme, get in touch using the details below.

The programme's Privacy Notice can also be found here.

Get in touch

You can contact the Problem Solving and Demand Reduction Programme team by:

Problem Solving and Demand Reduction 'So What' booklet

How we use your data

In April 2020, the Problem Solving and Demand Reduction Programme received funding to continue its work for another year. All data previously processed by the programme, now called the Problem Solving and Crime Prevention Programme, will therefore continue to be held and used in accordance with the programme’s Privacy Notice. If you wish for your data to no longer be retained by the programme, please contact problem_solving_project@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

Our vision

“Creating opportunities to reduce demand for police and partners by embedding a structured problem solving ethos and capability”

National Problem Solving Conference

The programme facilitates the National Problem Solving Conference annually.

Bookings for this year's conference, which will take place between 27 - 29 September 2021, are now open. For more information, click here.

Post-event information from the 2020 conference can be found here. Podcasts of the workshops and the PowerPoint slides used by keynote speakers can be found on our Knowledge Hub.

The Tilley Awards

The category winners for this year's Tilley Awards have been announced as:

- Business Support and Volunteers: City of London Police - Criming at Source

- Police Now and Student Officers: Surrey Police - Operation Annexe

- Partners: West Yorkshire Police - Leeds Street Support

- Investigations: Northumbria Police - Operations Eclipse and Antumbra

- Neighbourhoods: Sussex Police - Operation Asteroid

The overall winner of this year's awards will be announced at the National Problem Solving Conference in September 2021, after each category winner has presented their project.

All of the applications to the Tilley Awards, other than the five category winning projects, plus copies of the 2018/19 and 2019/20 applications, are available to view and download from our Knowledge Hub page.

Media

You can view a copy of our external announcements, here: