This document discusses challenges facing modern police forces and key steps they can take to adapt. Globalized criminality and expanding cybercrime have changed the environment for police. They face increasingly innovative criminals and soaring public expectations. The document recommends police engage citizens, empower officers, use analytics to predict and improve, and enhance collaboration. These steps can help forces prepare for the future and realize opportunities for cost savings, increased effectiveness, and a safer society through creativity and dynamic public engagement.

1. Policing gets smarter

2. Police and crime today
Common challenges
Key steps to help police

3. Police and crime today
 Globalized criminality
 Change environment in which police operate
 Expanding the cybercrime

4. Common challenges
 Increasingly innovative criminal fraternity
 Soaring public expectation

5. Key steps to help police prepare
for the future:
 Engage the citizen
 Empower police officers
 Predict and improve through analytics
 Enhance collaboration

6. Engage the citizen

7. Engage the citizen

8. Engage the citizen

9. Empower police officers

10. Empower police officers

11. Predict and improve
through analytics

12. Enhance collaboration

13. “Transformation in police services is a very long journey,
but it is a huge opportunity. It is an opportunity for cost
savings, potentially there is opportunity for massive
effectiveness increase, catching your criminals, preventing
crime. There are opportunities for sharing knowledge
globally, there is opportunity for creativity if you like, for
changing the dynamic between the police officer and the
citizen and that public engagement, and the opportunity
to build just a more safe society. “
James Slessor, one of our authors,
identifies key steps to help police
forces prepare for the future.

14. Policing gets smarter