ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the past, present, and future reform agenda in Australia and New Zealand around evidence-based policing (EBP). Starting with the establishment of the Society of Evidence Based Policing in 2013, the authors explore a range of ways that EBP has been adopted across the different jurisdictions in the Antipodes. We begin by examining the role of EBP workshops that were first developed at the University of Queensland and later adapted by other agencies. The workshops and masterclasses sought to empower police to drive, for themselves, the reform agenda around EBP. The authors then identify the field trials developed from the workshops, which include trials around police training, road policing, drug law enforcement, and interventions that target youth crime. We trace the impact of these early trials on broad organizational reforms in a number of different jurisdictions in Australia and New Zealand, demonstrating how police in this part of the world have institutionalized the use of science to guide policing policy and practice.
