Learning from the pandemic: Priority takeaways for policing innovation

Learning from the pandemic: Priority takeaways for policing innovation

Andrew Staniforth | Policing Insight

Staniforth reviews the UK Innovation Strategy for its impact for law enforcement, identifying 7 takeaways that will shape policing innovation going forward. Three of these are as follows…

• ‘Embracing empowered teams: Create small, empowered teams with a clear expert Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) allowing swift decisions with the agility and the ability to take risks in a way that lengthy, committee-based decision-making struggles to provide.’
• ‘Pursue speed: Support innovation to realise the enormous benefits at speed, as well as avoiding the costs of delay in losing the race to create breakthrough products’.
• ‘Innovation is international: Global policing, where international co-operation and collaboration is essential, for the rapid development and realisation of innovation, identifying, integrating and implementing best practices from overseas.’

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Learning from the pandemic: Priority takeaways for policing innovation, Andrew Staniforth, Policing Insight, 2021