Policing

Interpol launch ‘policing metaverse’ for training and collaboration

International policing agency Interpol has launched its own secure metaverse that it hopes will help police forces around the world…

The case against predictive policing

The pitch was simple. In August 2019, lobbyist Bryan Smith told a board of Utah’s police chiefs, municipal officials and…

Police use of drones is setting the stage for private sector deployments

At this height, the neighbourhood below looks like a model village. Amid the grey roofs and green lawns of downtown…

Police Scotland: Our Datasets Are a Sprawling Mess, Send Help

Scotland's policing authority says it needs help organising, securing and analysing a sprawling 100TB of unstructured data -- and is…

Home Office Inches Closer to Unified Crime Data Lake

The Home Office has inched closer to creating a unified crime data lake hosted in the public cloud – with…

Biometrics Commissioner to Met Police: No, I Don’t “Support” Live Facial Recognition

The UK's Biometrics Commissioner has admonished the Metropolitan Police for suggesting that he "supported the concept of LFR" (live facial…

UK police forces spend just £1.3m on cybercrime training over three years

UK police forces have spent just over £1m on cybercrime training courses over the last three years, according to a…

How Gloucestershire police force is fighting crime with SAS real-time analytics platform

Hoping to better tackle crime in the area, Gloucestershire Constabulary has adopted SAS’s analytics platform, using real-time analytics. Gloucestershire Constabulary…