Evidence-Based Policing SA Conference 2025: how to achieve measurable change

This year’s conference focuses on pressing, high-impact topics that can directly improve policing.

Date: 2025-09-27 to 2025-09-28

Time: 08:30 to 16:00

Venue: Cape Town, South Africa and online via Zoom

The question of how to improve policing in South Africa isn’t new – but the pressure to deliver positive change is sharper than ever. How can real, measurable, systemic improvements be achieved? And what would an evidence-based approach that learns from experience look like?

The 2025 Evidence-Based Policing South Africa Conference is about making that shift. It will focus on a few urgent, high-impact topics. Each session brings together speakers with operational experience, decision-making authority or research expertise to tackle real policing problems and weigh credible options.

The conference aims to:

• Promote evidence-informed deliberation on key policing challenges
• Foster collaboration across agencies and sectors
• Translate lessons from research and evidence into sustainable practice 
  
  

Six panel discussions will tackle these pressing issues:

• Identifying next steps to measurably improve police effectiveness
• Enhancing police oversight and accountability
• Embedding and institutionalising evidence-based policing
• Making multilevel cooperation work
• Integrating criminal justice system responses to organised crime
• Reducing firearm violence
  
  

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