Supported by BT

With crime increasingly moving into the digital domain, the police and the criminal justice system are entering a new era where criminality and law enforcement are more frequently conducted online.

The Police Foundation’s seventh annual conference focused on ‘policing and justice in a digital age’, addressing the skills police and justice professionals require in an increasingly internet-based society.

The event explored how the internet is enabling new forms of crime and the skills and capability are needed to meet the threat; the implications of the next wave of technological innovations; how we can use Big Data to solve policing problems; the role the private sector can play in supporting the police to fulfill their role and how digital technology will transform the interface between policing and the criminal justice system and empower victims, from reporting a crime through to going to court.

Selected conference footage

Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh, NPCC Chair Digital Policing Board and Lead on Digital Investigations and Intelligence ‘Emerging threats to public safety’.

Carl Miller, Research Director at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos ‘Social media and the threats to public safety in a digital age’.

Katy Bourne, Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex ‘Video enabled justice’.

Paul Whittaker, CBE, Crown Prosecution Service ‘Transforming the criminal justice system: court reform and the Common Platform’.

Dr Peter Langmead-Jones, HMIC and Dr Tom Kirchmaeir, LSE ‘How the police can use Big Data’.