Identifying changes to road user behaviour and being able to account for policing contributions towards road safety initiatives will be critical to determining the success of the strategy.
Existing data sets that identify trends in lives lost and serious injury on our roads will remain important, however other opportunities to monitor the impact of our interventions will be required.
This will include leveraging existing measures to further understand their relationship to road policing, using emerging technology to support intelligence gathering and developing ways to measure change impacts.
Measuring the effectiveness of police visibility and activity on general deterrence cannot be directly attributed to reduced road trauma and therefore a range of measures, qualitative and quantitative, will need to be combined to translate the impact an increased focus on anytime, anywhere road policing has.
Understanding success of the strategy will require a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) approach that is inclusive of existing data sets, considers community perspectives and adopts emerging research to understand drivers of behaviour.
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