Keyham Recovery

This research constitutes an independent evaluation of the Home Office funded community policing and community safety activities and the Ministry of Justice funded victim support activities in Keyham and the surrounding areas following the critical incident of 12 August 2021. The evaluation was funded by the Home Office’s Keyham Community Policing grant via the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC), and a research team from the University of Plymouth was appointed to undertake the evaluation in April 2022.

- To provide an evidence base for responding to a mass shooting from a community policing, community safety, and victim support perspective.
- To take a trauma-informed research approach to ensure a robust and rigorous evaluation that will effectively identify local lessons and provide national learning.
- To develop an evidence-based ‘menu’ of interventions that could inform future community and victim support responses to critical incidents.