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NPCC Policing Problem Book

29 October 20252 min read
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NPCC Policing Problem Book

Developed through extensive consultation, the document highlights issues such as digital evidence handling, data integration, and victim support. In doing so, it serves as a strategic guide for investment and research to focus national efforts and generate positive impact, aligning with the National Policing Digital Strategy.

Following the recent publication of our Memorandum of Understanding with the NPCC, formalising the strategic partnership with their Digital Data and Technology Coordination Committee (DDaT CC), techUK is excited to support policing in tackling their 13 identified challenges by fostering collaboration between the public and private sector.

Through insight, partnership and collaboration, the Policing Problem Book intends to bring purposeful change to the following areas:

  1. How can we best improve our capture and analysis of digital evidence?

  2. How can policing enhance public contact delivery through Strategic Digital Transformation?

  3. How can policing enable secure, efficient, and standardised data sharing across forces?

  4. How can policing efficiently assess and monitor a growing population of community-based offenders, especially high-risk individuals?

  5. How can policing transform the investigation and prevention of online sexual offences, particularly child exploitation?

  6. How can policing build and maintain public trust through fair, transparent, and accountable practices?

  7. How can policing responsibly deploy surveillance technologies by ensuring timely activation, ethical use, and public trust through robust legal and privacy frameworks?

  8. How can policing design out the opportunities for criminal activity emerging from synthetic content, connected vehicles, and smart technologies?

  9. How can police enhance its capability to investigate and prevent cybercrime by developing specialist skills, tools, and partnerships to address threats such as malicious communications, dark web activity, and digital stalking?

  10. How can policing develop a digitally empowered, data literate and innovative workforce to meet the demands of modern, intelligence-led policing?

  11. How can policing protect its workforce and keep them safe whilst delivering an effective service to the public, now and in the future?

  12. How can policing modernise mobility capabilities to ensure safe, efficient and future-ready operations across air, road, and connected vehicle environments?

  13. How can policing embed innovation, evaluation, and strategic foresight into its culture and operations?

For more information on how the techUK JES Programme are committed to supporting the NPCC in their approach to the Policing Problem Book, please get in touch with a member of the team below.