How police use data to tackle crime

This seminar offers a rare inside view of the technology and practices that underpin modern policing.

Date: 2018-09-11

Time: 14:00 to 16:00

Venue: 6 Spin Street, Cape Town

RSVP: Helen Chanda, Phone: +27 12 346 9500, Email: [email protected]

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The White Paper on Policing says the South African Police Service (SAPS) should be information driven and led by evidence and intelligence. The police should have systems that generate and share information to reduce crime. This vision makes sense. Crime tends to be concentrated in a few areas and police resources should be focused where harm is most predictable. This is considered good, evidence-based practice.

This seminar brings together senior South African and Bavarian (German) police to share their experiences of using data to track, map and predict crime, and to direct police resources and operations. It will offer a rare inside view of the rationale, technology and practices that underpin modern policing.

Chair: Gareth Newham, Head, Justice and Violence Prevention, ISS

Speakers:

Dr Andrew Faull, ISS Consultant

Brigadier Swart, SAPS Crime Registrar

Colonel Vosloo, SAPS Crime Registrar

Senior Chief Superintendent Bernhard Egger, Head of Crime Investigation, Bavarian State Police

Senior Chief Superintendent Peter Breitner, Station Commander, Bavarian State Police

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