APCC and NPCC Partnership Summit 2024 #policeconf24
19/20 November saw our annual APCC & NPCC Joint Partnership Summit take place at the QEII Conference Centre in London, hosted by Julie Etchingham.
Amongst a number of guests speakers, we were pleased to welcome the Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, the Shadow Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Chris Philp MP and the Policing Minister, the Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson MP.
Other notable sessions included a deeply thought-provoking conversation on knife crime, featuring Pooja and Nikita Kanda, alongside Faron Paul and Her Honour Judge Anuja Dhir KC, as well as a Youth Panel facilitated by the Youth Endowment Fund. A number of breakout sessions also covered a number of wide ranging issues, from financial resilience and the criminal justice system to the local impact of geo-political events. Plenary sessions focused on the potential challenges in tackling crime over the next ten years, as well as the importance of harnessing the power of data, science and technology and the ongoing work surrounding the Police Race Action Plan.
APCC Chair, Emily Spurrell, addressed delegates at the start of Day One, emphasising the significance of the Summit’s overarching theme of global risks and local responses, as well as the need to ensure that policing is fit for the future. Emily said: “We welcome the government’s commitment to increased community policing, but we also know crime is increasingly global, technologically enabled and rapidly evolving. We need to be ready and equipped to tackle these new and burgeoning threats and we need to improve forces’ capabilities in forensics and cyber and harness the benefits that new technology affords us in combatting crime of all kinds.”
We would like to once again thank all of our sponsors, speakers and delegates for making this year’s Summit such a fabulous event.