We recognise that no single organisation can solve these challenges alone. Industry, academia, government and policing each hold critical pieces of the innovation ecosystem. By bringing these communities together, we can accelerate the development, adoption and scaling of solutions that help policing protect the public more effectively, efficiently and ethically. 

Our mission is to create the conditions for innovation to thrive across policing, ensuring that scientific knowledge, technological capability and operational need are connected from the outset. 

We are strengthening the connection between operational policing challenges, aligned to the Police Problem Book, and the wider innovation community. Our ambition is to help create a policing ecosystem where operational needs drive innovation, we can move at pace, we are evidence driven, future threats are anticipated and collaboration becomes the norm.  

Industry plays a critical role in delivering capabilities that policing needs today and will depend upon tomorrow.  

By working together as partners rather than simply buyers and suppliers, we can co-create solutions that are operationally relevant, evidence based and capable of delivering lasting public benefit. This supports the ambition to position policing as an active innovation partner and to build a connected ecosystem across policing, industry, government and academia.

Industry Innovation Partner Network

To support our ambition of developing gold‑standard industry partnerships, we have established our Industry Innovation Partner Network.

If you are an industry partner, you can sign up to join the network here. Registration will automatically add you to our Industry Forum mailing list, providing access to regular engagement opportunities throughout the year.  

The Forum provides a structured mechanism to strengthen relationships between policing and industry. Driven through the OPCSA but widely policing-led, the forum brings together partners from across policing, government, academia and industry. It provides a space to share priorities, explore emerging challenges, identify opportunities for collaboration and support a more coordinated approach to innovation across the policing landscape. 

We welcome organisations of all sizes, from large multi-national tech providers to start ups, scale ups and small medium enterprises (SMEs). Each offer valuable expertise, skills, investment, research capability and novel approaches that, through effective collaboration and co-creation can help address some of policing’s most pressing challenges.  

By joining the network, organisations become part of a growing community committed to shaping the future of science, technology and innovation in policing.