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What the Summit produced

Reports, working papers, session recordings and articles from previous editions — the output of the tracks and the Policing 5.0 think tank, free to read and cite.

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Reports & working papers

The evidence base behind the tracks

Full-length reports produced with the Summit’s research partners and contributing agencies. Most are free to download after a short form.

Police resilience

Resilience and Sustainability Report

How forces stay effective through a surge in technological change — capability, workforce and sustainability.

Crime prevention

Scanning for the Future(s) of Policing

A working paper on first steps towards a new global paradigm, with contributions from across the field. The founding Policing 5.0 document.

K9

K9 Report

Why K9 officers and their canine counterparts remain indispensable, and where the discipline is heading.

Drones

Drones Report

Adoption of drones by police departments worldwide, and what they have proved useful for.

Drones

Framework for responding to a drone incident

INTERPOL guidelines for first responders and investigators at drone incidents.

Crime prevention

Crime Prevention Report

How crime and the fear of crime affect quality of life, and what interventions change it.

Anti-narcotics

Anti-Narcotics Report

Interdiction, cross-border cooperation and the shifting narcotics landscape.

Crime prevention

ChatGPT impacts on Law Enforcement

What large language models mean for investigators — and for the people they investigate.

Session videos

Watch the sessions you missed

Selected recordings from previous editions, organised by subject area.

Forensic sciences

Investigative Interviewing of Children

Technique, safeguarding and evidential integrity in the hardest interviews.

Crime prevention

Enhancing Cyber Coordination Against Digital Crime

What cross-border cyber coordination looks like when it works.

Crime prevention

Cybersecurity Strategies & Partnership Frameworks

Partnership models for mitigating evolving forms of crime.

Forensic sciences

Field Challenges of Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology

What laboratory practice runs into once it leaves the laboratory.

K9

Training Mindset: Street vs Test

Where K9 training standards and operational reality diverge.

K9

Reducing Fear, Anxiety and Stress in Working Dogs

Science-based tactics for handler and animal welfare.

K9

Breed Selection and Training Strategies

Time-tested approaches to building a police K9 capability.

Drones

Drone Integration: Trends & Where We’re Going

Integrating drones into existing command and response structures.

Articles & publications

Shorter reads between editions

Drones

Aerial Innovations: Safeguarding Our World from the Sky

How aerial capability is changing what police can see and reach.

Crime prevention

Organised Crime in the Modern Era

A global threat, and the vanguard of policing responding to it.

Crime prevention

The Ransomware Surge

The shadow of ransomware and law enforcement’s answer to it.

Forensic sciences

Digital Forensics in Modern Policing

The promise, and the concerns, of digital forensic practice.

Crime prevention

Combating Deep Web Crimes

The technological response of law enforcement to concealed markets.

Crime prevention

Quantum Computing in Law Enforcement

Unveiling a new frontier — and the encryption problem behind it.

Crime prevention

Championing Cybersecurity

The companies empowering law enforcement in the cyber domain.

Anti-narcotics

Interview: 2023 Award Winner Sergio Muñoz Yáñez

An award winner on the work behind the recognition.

Where the work comes from

The Policing 5.0 think tank

Most of the working papers here start in the closed-door think tank that runs alongside the Summit. What it concludes becomes the following year’s thematic tracks.

Understand Policing 5.0
A Policing 5.0 panel session at the World Police Summit 2025 under a people-focused, intelligence-led banner

The next set of findings comes out of November

Fourteen tracks, 140+ sessions, 16–18 November 2026 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

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