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  • Cracking Down on Low Level Crime

    Submitted by Peter Ship on Mon, 2012-01-30 17:12

    How the Police Can Tackle Opportunist Offending in the Lead up to the Olympics

    This year’s Olympics will see a massive increase in visitor numbers. The UK is expecting350,000 foreign visitors per day during the event and many more people will be drawn to London from other parts of the country. This huge influx will almost certainly result in an increase in all sorts of opportunist offending from pickpocketing to fraud and cyber-crime.

  • Social Media – Problem or Solution?

    Submitted by Joanne Taylor on Thu, 2012-01-12 11:54

    By its very nature, social media is huge, raw and anarchic. No wonder some are bewildered by it and would rather run away than try to understand it.

    Individuals can get away with ignoring it – especially those of a certain age. But governments and law enforcement organisations certainly cannot – as recent events in some Arab countries and elsewhere have shown. That’s why it was so wrong when, in the summer during the UK riots,there were discussions about shutting down social network sites.

  • No qualms about passenger profiling..

    Submitted by Mark Gibson on Fri, 2011-12-23 18:15

    Around six months ago there was a spate of press stories about pensioners being asked for their ID when buying a bottle of wine in their local supermarket. The supermarkets in question had a policy of blanket identification and, although anyone with common sense could tell that these customers were at least forty years over the legal age for buying alcohol, they were treated in the same way as a sixteen year-old. As a result, the supermarket looked ridiculous, insensitive and inefficient.

  • UK police need to take Fusion Centre concept on board…

    Submitted by Mark Gibson on Wed, 2011-12-21 13:13

    Rightly or wrongly, the UK police have had a hard time publicity-wise over the past few years. They are seen, in some quarters, as lacking coordination, not liaising with other agencies and not sharing data at an international, national, regional or even at a local level. This has led to some high-profile cases where a murder suspect, for example, has been overlooked because of lack of coordinated data.

  • Dealing with Betting Corruption in Sports – How Technology Can Help Stop the Rot

    Submitted by Mark Gibson on Tue, 2011-11-22 10:09

    Now the verdicts are in, cricket authorities and sporting administrators generally need to learn the lessons from the Pakistani cricket spot-fixing trial. The corrupt activities of South African captain, Hansie Cronje, which came to light more than ten years ago,were a powerful warning of the corrosive effect that betting can have on all sports.

  • 10 Years On – Pausing to Remember 9/11

    Submitted by Steve Serrao on Fri, 2011-07-29 16:14

    As the 10-year mark since the attacks of September 11 approaches, the images I saw from my house across the Hudson River still are fresh in my mind. It was a defining moment for our country. The event took friends from us too soon, changed our ideas of safety, changed our understanding of the vulnerabilities in our systems, and had a profound impact on all of us, both as individuals and together as a country. As we approach the 10-year commemorative,we pause to reflect the journey 10 years on.

  • Social Media Digital Fingerprints – The Do’s and Don’ts

    Submitted by Steve Serrao on Mon, 2011-07-25 16:12

    A prominent New York Congressman has certainly learned that social media can make a transgression nationally embarrassing. It’s a lesson for law enforcement organizations – not because we’re likely to post scandalous pictures, but rather because social media posts are often viewed more widely than users would prefer.

  • Policing in the 21st Centuary

    Submitted by John Gillion on Mon, 2010-08-16 23:00

    Local Accountability v National Collaboration

    From a personal perspective, I will admit that I struggle to see how the Policing in the 21st Century agenda will result in anything less than short to medium term confusion and may cause individual forces to reassess decisions made under the previous regime.

  • Internal Marketing, The Surrey Police Way

    Submitted by Lindsay Marshall on Thu, 2010-08-12 10:33

    When Surrey Police enlisted Memex to bring a new technology solution to their workforce, strategies had to be implemented to ensure the introduction of the new software ran smoothly across the entire force. Surrey Police and Memex are working in partnership to deliver an enterprise wide information management system joining all Surrey’s Police key police business functions under one platform system. This System was to be implemented in phases over three years. With any IT purchase the challenge is always how to engage with the operatives and get user buy-in.

  • An Olympian Task

    Submitted by Peter Ship on Thu, 2010-06-03 12:34

    The challenge of any police force at times of extraordinary requirements is how to balance a level of resources which are adequate for ordinary times. I recently came across an article which raised the increased threat of cultural crimes such as art theft during the London Olympics. It’s absolutely correct, there is an increased threat but not just for cultural crimes; across the board. Once this is accepted, the challenge is how to deal with it. Clearly there has to be a shift in policing strategy during such an acute period.

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