For Professionals
Research and guidance for professionals
In 2023 and 2024 the Foundation for Integrated Transport funded a piece of work to disseminate the Guidelines to police and professionals. What followed was a piece of research looking at police use of language in their press releases and communications, and their use of the guidelines. The below reports explain more.
The Report
This report sets out in detail our research on police language and the guidance for police communications offices. We analysed 227 police press releases from 45 forces, from October 2023. Enclosed is what we found and how professionals can improve their communications around collisions. You can read the document in the window, or download the pdf here.
Guidance for professionals
This document is intended to help professionals who communicate on road collisions to do so in an accurate and balanced way. You can read the pdf in the window, or download the handbook here.
