Fifty-Five Years of Evidence. Applied to Your Agency's Toughest Challenges.
The National Policing Institute (NPI) has spent 55 years producing the research that shaped modern policing, from the studies that first proved how patrol strategy affects crime to the fieldwork that continues to inform staffing, wellness, and technology decisions today. NPI Advisory Services puts that same research foundation, plus decades of field experience from former law enforcement leaders directly to work inside your agency.
This isn't access to one name or one reputation. It's applied research and hands-on expertise from NPI's own data scientists and former command staff, packaged into engagements built to move your agency from data to a defensible, actionable plan.
Whether your agency is facing a staffing crisis, a wellness and retention problem, a technology decision with no roadmap, or a council and community asking hard questions about performance, NPI Advisory Services brings the evidence, the independence, and the expertise to help you answer them, and to help you defend the answer.
Core Advisory Services
NPI has translated 55 years of applied research into fixed-scope, fixed-fee advisory packages, so your agency can move quickly, with a clear scope, a clear price, and findings that hold up under scrutiny.
Rapid Performance Assessment
Know how your officers are performing, not just what the complaints say.
NPI analyzes body-worn camera (BWC) footage across your agency to measure real interpersonal communication and interaction quality, department-wide.
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Staffing Studies
Staff your agency appropriately.
NPI uses actual workload and call-volume data, not generic ratios, to deliver defensible staffing projections for patrol, investigative, and support units that hold up under budget scrutiny.
Make Evidence-Informed Staffing Decisions β
Workforce Wellness & Fatigue Management
Protect your people before burnout becomes attrition.
NPI identifies the internal stressors and fatigue drivers affecting your workforce, benchmarks them against national best practices, and helps you build a wellness strategy your officers will actually use.
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Organizational Assessments
Align your agency's people, policies, and purpose.
A comprehensive review of internal operations, structure, and culture, delivering findings your command staff, your board, and your community can trust.
Identify Strengths and Weaknesses β
Efficiency Analysis & Improvement
Do more with the resources you already have.
Using Lean principles, NPI identifies workflow inefficiencies, from records management to public records act (PRA) requests to external responses, and delivers a practical improvement plan, even when hiring more staff isn't an option.
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Technology & Data Assessments
Make confident, well-informed technology decisions.
From evaluating your current systems to guiding the responsible adoption of new technology, including AI, NPI helps you invest and implement in a way that fits your agency's budget and mission.
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Why Agencies Choose NPI Advisory Services
Independent & Accountable to No One but the Evidence
NPI is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution. We have no celebrity reputation to protect and no product to sell, only findings built to hold up in front of your council, your community, and the courts.
Built by Practitioners, Backed by the Institution That Wrote the Research
Our advisors are former police executives, researchers, and data scientists who've done the job, drawing on the same body of research NPI has built since 1970.
Trusted at Scale, Right Now
NPI is currently engaged with dozens of law enforcement agencies nationwide. This isn't a one-time case study. It's ongoing work agencies rely on every day.
Scoped for Your Agency
From a single assessment to an ongoing advisory relationship with your command staff, engagements are scoped to your agency's size, budget, and timeline. It is never a one-size-fits-all package.
Beyond the Core Advisory Services Packages
NPI Advisory Services also supports agencies with:
- Training curriculum review and development, including de-escalation training, with improvement recommendations
- Policy review with evidence-based recommendations
- Custom advisory engagements scoped to your agency's specific challenge
Agency Transformation Starts with NPI's Advisory Services
What sets NPI Advisory Services apart isn't just the engagement. It's what happens after. Every engagement is designed to leave your agency with a clear, prioritized action plan, not a report that sits on a shelf. Many agencies begin with a single assessment and continue the relationship as an ongoing strategic advisor to command staff through implementation.
NPI's advisory services are built on the same research foundation that has shaped policing practice for 55 years: efficient, adaptable, and free of any agenda beyond getting it right. Dozens of agencies across the country rely on that work today.
Bring Proven Solutions to Your Agency
What sets NPI Advisory Services apart isn't just the engagement. It's what happens after. Every engagement is designed to leave your agency with a clear, prioritized action plan, not a report that sits on a shelf. Many agencies begin with a single assessment and continue the relationship as an ongoing strategic advisor to command staff through implementation.
NPI's advisory services are built on the same research foundation that has shaped policing practice for 55 years: efficient, adaptable, and free of any agenda beyond getting it right. Dozens of agencies across the country rely on that work today.