Today’s Police Reform White Paper, ‘From local to national: a new model for policing’, sets out a comprehensive package of reforms designed to create a police service that is more rooted in local communities and focused on their needs.
The paper highlights the vital overlap between security, policing and the public, emphasising how each depends on one another to build a safer, more resilient community.
Kevin Craven, ADS Chief Executive said:
Today’s Police Reform White Paper is a welcome and ambitious step toward a more coherent, better equipped, and future ready policing system. The intent to streamline policing structures and centralise procurement creates real opportunity to leverage industry capabilities and innovation at scale, while freeing local officers to focus on the vitally important local issues.
Our security and resilience sector is already working side by side with policing to meet fast evolving challenges, from managing complex digital evidence to deploying solutions that improve response times, augment investigative capacity, and tackle evolving criminal modus operandi.
We look forward to contributing to the next stage of the White Paper process, ensuring reforms are grounded in what works operationally. Security & Policing in March will be an important next step in this journey, bringing policing and industry together to showcase the technologies, solutions and partnerships that can help deliver the White Paper’s ambitions.
