News & Events
Catch-up on the latest policing science and technology news and events.
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12 October 2024
University Innovation Concept 2024 Challenge Statements (UIC) AI and Technical Research
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9 October 2024
Foundation Future Leaders 2025 - Applications Now Open
The Foundation Future Leaders Programme, launched in 2019, seeks to support the leaders of tomorrow in building the links and knowledge that they will need.
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6 October 2024
Police STAR Fund 25/26 – EOI now open
Funded by policing, for policing. The Police STAR Fund 25/26 call is seeking to fund force and regional innovation and research across science, technology, analysis, and research.
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24 September 2024
A new funding opportunity: Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs)
The NPCC and UKRI are funding the creation of up to nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) to help improve connections between policing and academic researchers…
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16 September 2024
Launch of Policing Tomorrow
The OPCSA are thrilled to introduce our new magazine, Policing Tomorrow. Dedicated to the latest advancements in science and technology within the policing sector.
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Universities at the Met Seminar - percieved hostile threats and public behaviour
The September 2024 "Universities at the Met" seminar will be held at New Scotland Yard (Ground Floor) at 5pm on the 11th of September 2024. The event is expected to conclude at 6:30pm. The event is open to all.
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14 August 2024
Strategic Workshop to Develop a Science and Technology Profession for Policing
The Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser are inviting senior academics to attend a free workshop on the 9th of October 2024 to support the development of an S&T Profession in Policing to inspire the current and…
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31 July 2024
AHRC Responsive mode: Curiosity award: round five
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are funding flexible awards to fund fundamental research that leads to new research agendas, networking activity and idea generation…
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12 July 2024
Found - an exploration of the potential future of policing
In collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser have developed a speculative video to show the potential future of policing within the next 30 years.
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20 June 2024
Home Office Contracts for Innovation - Knife Detection Technologies - Phase 1
The Home Office is running a Contracts for Innovation competition to develop systems capable of automatically detecting knives concealed on a person, at a distance, to be used by police forces.
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3 June 2024
New Machine Learning Guide for Policing
A new resource developed by West Midlands Police in collaboration with Middlesex University, Bournemouth University and the University of Suffolk is available for forces who wish to use machine learning (ML)…
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UK Policing Areas of Research Interest - Online Webinar
Hear from the Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser (OPCSA) who have recently published the first edition of UK Policing ARIs.
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13 May 2024
Roundtable Discussion: Building Resilience in the UK’s Electromagnetic Environment
In February the Office for the Police Chief Scientific Adviser attended a two-day roundtable hosted by Cranfield University and the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) from the University of Cambridge.