Conference booklet Pearls in Policing 2015 Copenhagen, Denmark 13-17 June 2015 ‘Shaping Innovation through Partnerships’ 2 Table of contents 1. Welcome by Commissioner Jens Henrik Højbjerg of the Danish National Police, Host Pearls in Policing 2015 2. Welcome by Commissioner Gerard Bouman of the Netherlands Police, on behalf of the Pearls Curatorium 3. Welcome on behalf of the Conference Co-Directors, Mr. Anders Dorph and Ms. Anita Hazenberg 4. Conference Programme Pearls in Policing 5. Peer to Peer Consultation 6. Participants Pearls in Policing 7. Academics Pearls in Policing 8. The International Pearl Fishers Action Learning Group (IALG) 9. Partner Programme 10. Pearls Curatorium 11. Board of International Advisors 12. Organisation of the Pearls in Policing Conference 13. Things you should know 14. Notes 3 4 Welcome by Commissioner Jens Henrik Højbjerg of the Danish National Police, Host Pearls in Policing 2015 On behalf of the Danish National Police I am Danish Police to raise the level of performance My hope for this conference and for the honoured and delighted to welcome you to significantly and has successfully been a future is, that we all will be brick makers and the city of Copenhagen for the 2015 Pearls in strong factor in producing results all over the join together in strengthening the foundation Policing Conference. organisation. for innovation - a necessity in order to meet I have been looking forward to this great the future requirements and challenges of opportunity to introduce you to our beautiful Innovations also require transparency, open- increasingly complex crime patterns, political capital, and I hope you will find the setting mindedness and willingness to look at others. A demands and society expectations. inspiring and supportive for creativity. number of recent studies has shown a high level of confidence in the Danish Police, from all We are proud to be a part of Pearls in Policing parts and areas of the Danish society, one rating and grateful for our participation in valuable the police in the top 3 of the 40 most important and common endeavors to develop best public authorities in Denmark. This reputation practice. It is a unique platform to learn from constitutes an important platform for engaging each other, share knowledge and new ideas, in external partnerships. and it has proved itself very beneficial for the imperative international perspective needed The Danish Police is ready and able to pursue when facing future challenges within law innovation which is reflected in the national enforcement and security. strategy for the Danish Police that promotes strategic innovation. Though we are well on our Shaping innovation through partnerships is the way, we need a lot of inspiration to improve and theme of this year’s conference and what better share ideas, methods and perspectives on how foundation than the partnerships established to create the ideal conditions for innovation amongst the Pearls in Policing participants and in all of our organisation. This is what this their law enforcement agencies. conference and the immense effort by the working groups can contribute to. Innovation requires a strong foundation. The Danish Police has worked hard and The great Danish fairytale author H.C. determined to build this foundation after a Andersen once said to be of use to this world comprehensive reform in 2007. The Danish is the only way to happiness. His story, Police has established a well-defined strategic “Something” from 1858, is about five brothers foundation based on a national strategy, clear and begins describing the eldest brother, who, in targets, performance objectives and systematic his ambition to be somebody important and do follow-up. The introduction of this strategic something useful in the world, intends to be a management foundation has enabled the brick maker. Welcome by Commissioner Gerard Bouman of the Netherlands Police, on behalf of the Pearls Curatorium Pearls in Policing 2015 is a firm tradition and This is all thanks to (or the fault of, depending on maintain our position in the future. The strength provides us with a forum in which to continue how you look at it) the fact that computers and of this combination is reflected in the title of our the inspiring discussions and stimulating sensors get stronger, better, and above all cheaper forthcoming conference: Innovation through debates that have characterised our each year. In our exponential world, futile matters partnerships. These two keywords express the gatherings thus far. This year, our core theme can sweep through the world like a tornado. If we spirit of and thinking behind Pearls in Policing in a is Innovation through partnerships. as police organisations and police leaders are to nutshell. I am looking forward with great pleasure to keep up with these developments and this pace, we This is not a matter of choice. Denying the our meeting in Copenhagen. must change our approach from planned, step- exponential changes and the sheer necessity of by-step thinking to an attitude of flexibility and cooperation would weaken our police organisations First of all, I would like to express my enormous adaptability. We have to be at the ready to respond over the coming decades, making them vulnerable, appreciation for the impressive way our Danish directly and flexibly to innovations that were or even outdated. But how can we, at the same colleagues have organised this conference, despite simply unimaginable in the past. time, make our existing organisations more flexible, the fact that the Danish police force has been Self-driving cars, 3D-scanning, drones, you name innovative and cooperative? This dilemma lies at occupied with the aftermath of the Copenhagen it – all these new realities bring new dimensions to the core of this edition of Pearls in Policing. The shootings and the upcoming parliamentary our work. Formerly untrodden territories such as answer undoubtedly lies for a large part in providing elections (18 June). This attack touched the heart biology, neurology, and quantum physics are now space for professionals; and providing this space of Danish society, highlighting once again the becoming essential disciplines for policing. It is not requires our attention, practice, patience, and importance of standing shoulder to shoulder only that we can use such developments ourselves, sometimes a certain degree of suppleness. to oppose terrorist atrocities. I hope that our but that we have to keep up with others who are a partnership within Pearls in Policing will make a few steps ahead: not least, the criminal elements on I hope that together we can ensure these qualities significant contribution to our joint stance against this earth. and allow our complex mission to succeed. And terrorism. I use the word ‘hope’ deliberately here, because Modern and innovative leadership means hope, like innovation and creativity, encompasses Since the beginning of time, our earth has calmly discerning and understanding these trends. Police a strength that we can appeal to in every living turned its daily rounds. Perhaps that strikes you leaders can use these insights to establish what being. A strength that expectantly looks to the future as a little bit boring – if so, I’ve got good news possibilities these trends have to offer, both for and inspires us to depart from the beaten track and for you! But if you’re attached to that kind of the police and for criminals. Insights of this to continue to develop ourselves. Hope leads to predictability, you should better fasten your kind enable us to devise strategies to allow us to forward movement and energy. seatbelt… Figuratively speaking, the pace of introduce innovations in our own circles and to Albert Einstein provides us with some words of our world has increased at breath-taking speed combat them in criminal circles. wisdom to take with us to the coming edition of over the last twenty years. And there is no reason Pearls in Policing: ‘If at first an idea is not absurd, to believe that this is just a passing phase. On Innovation is important, but it is certainly not then there is no hope for it.’ I hope that Copenhagen the contrary, we are undergoing a fundamental the whole story. Cross-border partnerships and will overwhelm us with ideas that at first sight seem change: from local, linear and gradual to global, knowledge-sharing are just as important, if not to be completely absurd, and inspire us to think up rapid, and exponential. more so, to make the progress that is vital to many more such ideas in the future. 5 6 Welcome on behalf of the Conference Co-Directors Mr. Anders Dorph and Ms. Anita Hazenberg Dear Pearls Participants, Welcome to participants) are invited each year in San Francisco and will focus on ‘Shaping the land of Hans Christian Anderson • We challenge each other to think outside the Innovation through Partnerships’. Fairytales, design and the famous box Scandinavian cuisine. • Interventions will be short (7 minutes) The 2015 core conference content: and discussions will take place in small, We hope the Danish atmosphere will provide interactive groups IALG assignment you with a setting for outside the box, • Participants are speakers and speakers are The IALG is the only existing executive innovative thinking. An opportunity to stretch participants leadership programme in the world. The your mind beyond the regular daily concerns, • We will encourage each other to look at issues participants spend a year working on an and to look ahead at what we will encounter the from a global, regional and local perspective assignment which has been formulated coming years in law enforcement. • There is always a close learning link with the during the previous year’s Pearls in Policing This welcome has the intention to provide you International Action Learning Group (IALG) conference.