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How are experiments in the Midlands leading to safer streets?

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West Midlands police are testing and learning from different approaches to several community safety challenges.

The police are in a tricky position. When crime rates go down it is often claimed as a success for great policing.  When they go up we can become socio-economic commentators, blaming the bad news on the economy, unemployment or the rise of digital technology.  We can’t have it both ways!

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What Works is about bringing better evidence and experimental techniques to bear on public policy.

The Cabinet Office What Works Team coordinates the What Works Network and the Cross Government Trial Advice Panel, and we work within government to improve policy through evidence use and experimentation.

In this blog, we bring together examples of best practice and resources for civil servants who want to find out what works and put robust evidence to good use.

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