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Evidence-Based Policing is the use of best available research in making decisions about police practices, either strategically or case-by-case. From its origin in a 1998 Police Foundation paper in the US, to the 2010 foundation of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing by British police officers, to the 2012 creation of the College of Policing by the UK government, evidence-based policing has shaped police practice in Latin America, Australia, Asia and Europe.

Evidence-based policing applies appropriate and preferably peer-reviewed research to three kinds of police decisions: targeting, testing and tracking.