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- From what other sources can police enrich their own analytical data where it is legal and proportionate to do so?
- How can robotics expedite policing activities or complement the existing provision, for example, to effectively support forensic specialists identify, record, or assess marks across a crime scene?
- How can policing best implement and utilise situational awareness within policing practices?
- What emerging biological or behavioural measurements and calculations can be used to ascertain or impersonate a person’s identity?
- What are the value and limits of emerging AI technologies such as ChatGPT in policing?
- How can the policing further deliver seamless interaction with the Crown Prosecution Service and legal representatives?
- How can policing best provide Chief Officers and deployed officers with real-time information about workforce and assets, including remote briefing capabilities and file transfer?
- Are current national police interview models fit for purpose when conducting interviews with vulnerable suspects, such as those who have Autism Spectrum Disorder, Personality Disorder or mental health conditions?
- How can policing ensure transparency in decision-making, so it is open to challenge?
- What is the value and impact of policing’s crime prevention initiatives within the context of diverse communities and populations? How do policing’s crime prevention initiatives need to be altered to have a better impact in diverse communities and populations?
- What technologies can assist police officers in stand-off knife detection?
- How can policing measure and demonstrate the level of accuracy in predictive algorithms?
- What are the safety and line-of-sight flying concerns regarding the use of drones in policing and how can these be mitigated?
- How can policing improve our workforce vetting processes to mitigate organisational risk?
- How can policing demonstrate that algorithms are fair and unbiased in using policing data?
- What counter technologies may be used to trick large scale audio-visual data processing and analysis systems used by the police and how can they be mitigated?
- What are the best practices for conducting pre-interview assessments to identify vulnerability or intimidation to determine appropriate ‘special measures’ and communication?
- What novel millimetric wave sensing technologies can be used by policing to identify hidden objects??
- What ‘lab in a box’ or other similar technologies are available to the police for forensic crime scene investigations?
- What, if any, are the emerging risks to personal privacy and victim intrusion from new digital forensic technologies?
- What computational and analytical techniques can deliver accurate, large scale, automated image capture, processing, and amalgamation, while maintaining privacy and proportionality?
- How can policing utilise smart assistants, such as to manage the logistics of police deployment and tasking or to ensure that victims and witnesses receive the best possible support?
- What methods and policies could policing use to identify deepfakes rapidly and automatically, while retaining victim privacy?
- In what areas of policing can we democratise the science and technology so that it can be used by many non-specialists?
- How can policing capitalise on geospatial technologies to deliver new information forms that can enhance situational awareness and decision making?
- How should enriched data produced from the fusion/linkage of multiple data sources be presented to users to enable rapid and effective decision making?
- How can candidate technologies for lawful knife detection and vehicle interdiction achieve usable size, weight, and power configurations?
- What digital forensic advances can support crypto-currency investigations?
- How can policing use advances in robotics to reduce or remove the need for police officers to enter hazardous environments e.g., water, fire, electrical, natural disaster, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear)? Further, how can a seamless and secure operation be enabled in such environments?
- What legal and ethical challenges does the use of autonomous systems in policing face as robots become more able to operate independently?
- What is the best-in-class digital tooling available for the forensic analysis of text, media and metadata?
- What behavioural and technical interventions will improve the safety of public spaces and the public’s perception of their safety?
- What technologies can assist police officers in vehicle interdiction relating to e-scooter and e-bike crime?
- How much weight should policing place in predictive algorithms and what is the evidence base for the successful use of these techniques?
- What methods for data fusion and linkage across datasets best retain the anonymity of identifiers?
- What methods can be applied to increase the precision of policing’s risk modelling and subsequent actions undertaken?
- What are the downstream impacts of climate change on criminality and policing’s operating model?
- How can the police service adapt its analytical systems in novel ways to better create, store and utilise diverse types and sources of data?
- How can we best communicate and understand the public’s perception of autonomous vehicles and drone usage in policing?
- What are the potential criminal opportunities posed by emerging biometrics?
- What technologies can be used to prevent crimes online, including the online mobilisation towards violence and terrorism?
- How does the use of secure digital recording devices in Voluntary Attender Interviews with suspects impact interview quality, investigation outcome and jury decisions?
- How can policing maintain the integrity of the evidential chain when processing and analysing audio-visual data?
- How can the police service further develop capabilities in automatic redaction and selective extraction from phones?
- What is the best practice for conducting suspect interviews in the case of RASSO (Rape and Serious Sexual Offences) and VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) investigations?
- How can the police service maximise opportunities in Robotic Process Automation to streamline analytical processes in the near-term?
- How can policing co-develop useful predictive models with public debate and consent?
- How can policing advance its interconnectivity both within policing (e.g., AI supported call and response routing), on multi-modal devices, and across organisations?
- What are the potential investigative opportunities for policing through the use of emerging biometrics, including the current limits of biometrics to identify and trace individuals?
- How can policing demonstrate an end-to-end chain of evidence across the criminal justice system (e.g., using blockchain technology)?
- How can policing better service the public and victims so that they have easy and timely access to information, including possible self-service options relating to case progress?
- What cybersecurity threats exist for the use of drones in policing and how can they be mitigated?
- How can policing best assess and evidence the benefits of crime prevention initiatives?
- What methods can policing use to enable data fusion or linkage across datasets to enrich the evidence intelligence picture across both structured and unstructured sources?
- How can behavioural science be applied to deter, detect, and disrupt terrorists using or targeting transport systems?
- How can policing overcome challenges around the collection, processing and storage of (usually large) files from audio-visual materials, including when working with still compared to moving images?
- How can policing improve the process and workflow surrounding digital forensics, including democratising the ability to run safe, rapid and effective forensics at a crime scene?