APCC NPCC Partnership Summit 2024: Global risks and local responses – positive policing for the future
(Ended 20th Nov 2024)

Day 1: Tuesday 19th November

Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition

Summit facilitated by Julie Etchingham

Introduction:

The Chairs of the APCC and NPCC will set out the key issues to be discussed at the event and their respective visions for policing and crime in the coming decade.

Plenary session: Crime over the next 10 years – impact on the public and policing.

Crime is changing and increasingly moving online. Alongside significant global, environmental, technological and societal changes. Maintaining trust and confidence in policing is critical to its’ success and policing must be able to adapt rapidly to these changes.

This session focuses on exploring changes in crime over the next decade and how policing can prepare for these challenges whilst increasing public trust and confidence.

Refreshment break, networking and exhibition

Keynote speaker

Plenary session: Think Tanks

Think tanks present on key issues impacting policing and challenging current and future plans, including Workforce planning, Public trust and confidence and Financing policing.

Lunch, networking and exhibitiooperational

Plenary session: Data, science, technology and law enforcement

A review of the latest developments in data, science and technology and how these have affected criminality and law enforcement.

The session will include case studies and a panel who will discuss the impact of these developments and how they can be used to improve efficiency and enhance public safety whilst balancing financial, ethical and legitimacy concerns.

Lightning talks from police forces and Police and Crime Commissioners on the innovative work happening in England and Wales to help prepare for the future.

The talks will have a particular focus on workforce planning, prevention, sustainability and science and technology.

Refreshment break, networking and exhibition

Breakout groups – Panel discussions with key figures from policing, criminal justice, and the private sector

Breakout one – Deepfakes, powered by AI

Recent developments in generative AI have created the potential for new crimes, including AI generated fake images, audio and video.

How can we support the legitimate and ethical use of AI in law enforcement whilst limiting its’ criminal abuse?

Breakout two – Policing productivity

The session will provide an overview of the College of Policing Centre for Police Productivity’s ambitions and what it can offer to forces and Police and Crime Commissioners. There will be a focus on the Centre’s innovations workstream and the work the College has been doing with forces to test the most promising productivity-enhancing practices and technologies, as well as a look at how forces are being supported to embed and get the most out of them.

Breakout three – Financial resilience

With budgets stretched across the policing and criminal justice sector, it is vital that there is financial resilience from a national to local level.  Criminal Justice agencies will have to maximise partnership working and seek innovative approaches to these challenges, learning from other sectors to deliver service improvements.

This session will consider these challenges and possible solutions.

An in conversation with a keynote speaker.

Drinks reception – Pickwick Suite

Dinner

With Guest Speaker, Jonanthan Van Tam

Day 2: Wednesday 20th November

Summit facilitated by Julie Etchingham

Keynote speaker

Lightning talks from forces and Police and Crime Commissioners from across the country, about the innovative work happening locally to help prepare for the future.

The talks will have a particular focus on workforce planning, prevention, sustainability and science and technology.

Refreshment break, networking and exhibition

Breakout session one – Criminal justice:

With prisons continually at or close to capacity and backlogs in Crown Court cases, change is needed to improve the timeliness and outcomes of cases for all stakeholders in the criminal justice system.  This is key to restoring public trust and confidence.

How can we improve current processes to deliver on these priorities?

Breakout session two: – Global to local impact of geo-politics

From protest, terrorism and cybercrime to drugs and serious organised crime, global events have an ever-increasing direct impact in the UK.  This creates demand that can have a detrimental effect on local policing and communities. 

How can we focus on preparing for and addressing these issues while minimising the effect on local policing?

Breakout session three – Prevention and partnerships

The need for strong partnerships and collaborative working across and beyond the criminal justice sector is vital to prevent crime, reduce victimisation and make communities safer.

How do we encourage public, private and third sector organisations to work together to tackle societal issues such as knife crime, ASB, VAWG and drugs, with appropriate accountability, responsibility and leadership?

Plenary session: Race and equality

Rebuilding public trust and confidence is a key priority for UK policing and this panel will explore how we can embed anti-racism and anti-discrimination into policing values and culture – and that this is seen and felt by all communities that policing serves.

In conversation with… Youth Panel

Hearing young people’s views as citizens and as victims of crime on issues of safety, trust and confidence in policing. The session will address how to engage and involve young people to create change.

Summary and close with the APCC and NPCC Chairs

Lunch, networking and exhibition