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Modern technologies offer enormous opportunities for police and for criminals. They also present a multitude of challenges for police leaders, policy makers, and those who hold the police to account.
2 September 2019
Cressida Dick on police “licence to operate” in the Digital Age – a UK perspective
Modern technologies offer enormous opportunities for police and for criminals. Most crimes have a digital element. Rapid technological advances have led to new tools such as facial recognition, camera-equipped drones, and fingerprint scanners. These advances provide enormous amounts of data to be assessed and interpreted, generating a role for artificial intelligence in modern policing. They also create new tensions between protection of citizens’ safety and protecting personal data, as well as presenting a multitude of challenges for police leaders, policy makers, and those who hold the police to account.
Cressida Dick was appointed UK Commissioner of Police in 2017, the first female commissioner in the history of the Metropolitan Police. She leads the United Kingdom’s largest police service, having served as a police officer for most of her 35-year career.
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Anthony Bubalo
Anthony Bubalo is a former Nonresident Fellow of the Lowy Institute, and was Deputy Director of the Institute between 2015 and 2018 and Research Director from 2012 to 2018.
Cressida Dick
Cressida Dick served as the first female Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, the United Kingdom’s largest police service, from 2017 to 2022.