The UK government is putting \u00a350m into a series of challenges funding technological solutions to improve safety on British streets.<\/p>\n
Delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the Safer Streets Challenges funding is part of the government\u2019s \u00a3500m Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme.<\/p>\n
The Safer Streets Mission was launched with a handful of goals including halving knife crime and violence against women and girls within a decade and rebuilding public confidence in the police and the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n
UKRI will fund a series of community-led pilots that will test technologies including an AI national crime map, new protective features for children and young people in online spaces and digital community engagement tools for the public to interact with policing and other agencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehind every crime statistic, is a story of somebody who has had their life affected, sometimes irreversibly, by a serious and distressing experience,\u201d said Science Minister Lord Vallance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so important that we do everything we can to help prevent harms from happening in the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have an extraordinary research community in the UK, and this programme is about harnessing their innovation and expertise, backing them with dedicated government funding, to help tackle these crimes and the problems they create in people\u2019s daily lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
The projects will be managed by groups of researchers, communities and law enforcement groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an exciting opportunity to bring together expertise from across our communities to make all our lives safer,\u201d said Gill Attrill, challenge director for the Safer Streets Mission at UKRI.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy combining lived experience and community insight with academic rigour, industry innovation, philanthropic investment, the skills and commitment of our police and community services we have a unique opportunity to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK government is putting \u00a350m into a series of challenges funding technological solutions to improve safety on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,4103,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-uk","9":"tag-ukri","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116362680913494181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}