Police and Crime Commissioner Adam Simmonds is to reveal plans to create a new Police, Crime and Justice Institute at the University of Northampton.
Mr Simmonds will address the Police Strategy Forum today, a body that brings together chief constables and PCCs from across the country.
In his speech, Mr Simmonds will say: “A key element to delivering in better ways is to firmly root everything we do in an evidence base.
“In Northamptonshire, to help to achieve this, I have commissioned, with the University of Northampton, a new Police, Crime and Justice Institute.
“The Institute is to be situated at the University and will provide the independence and academic rigour to evaluation projects and programmes of work to ensure that we only do what is evidenced work as a principle.
“Things that we prove do not work will be stopped. The Institute will also link better public insight and engagement with vocational training for the police.
“The Institute will drive innovation and evidence based practice, bringing the best national and international evidence to Northamptonshire.
“I intend the Institute to become a major national and international player, researching key topics and developing thinking beyond the boundaries of Northamptonshire.”
He added: “Practically, this will be launched before the end of my first year in office.”
Mr Simmonds also touched upon his plans to integrate “blue light services”, by bringing together police, fire and potentially ambulance services.
The PCC first mentioned the potential for “a merger” earlier this year.
He said: “Why should it matter to a member of the public which service responds to their need provided their need is met? And why do we have incidents that have to get passed between three different control rooms to deploy three different sets of resources in three different sets of vehicles to the same incident?
“My vision is to bring together in a new integrated way emergency services and wider security functions such as emergency planning across Northamptonshire. This needs to go beyond collaborating on a few ‘back office’ functions, to altering the way we respond to and prevent incidents.”
Earlier this week Northampton Borough Council’s licensing committee rejected police plans to ban bar, pubs and clubs from selling booze between the hours of 3am and 6am - an idea proposed by the police.
Speaking today, he added: “It is not just the Police who need to have a role in prevention. Prevention and early intervention are more efficient and effective ways for the whole public sector to work.
“Preventing crime is a statutory responsibility for all those partners who form a part of Community Safety Partnerships and while all in the public sector have a role to play, we need to move beyond seeing prevention as something we do to the public, and see it as something the public is involved in and own themselves.
“The best prevention involves and engages the public to deliver the solutions to defined problems.”