Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment (SARA) is a problem-solving process used in problem-oriented policing.
[1] SARA was first proposed in 1987 by John E. Eck and William Spelman of the Police Executive Research Forum.
[2][3] Police interventions based on SARA increased as a result of the broken windows theory of crime first proposed in the 1980s.
[3] The "Assessment" stage was noted as "often the most ignored part of the SARA model" by the Evidence-Based Policing App.
[5] Transport for London created a revised approach to policing based on SARA, which they called SPATIAL.