Telefónica Tech Featured in TechUK’s New Policing Solutions Book
Telefónica Tech is featured in the techUK Policing Solutions Book, showcasing how data and artificial intelligence (AI) can support police reform through more proactive, intelligence-led policing.
The book brings together industry solutions relevant to the 13 challenges identified in the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Policing Problem Book. These challenges reflect the pressures facing policing, including the need to improve data use, strengthen public safety and develop a digitally empowered workforce. It is intended to help focus investment and research, encourage collaboration between policing and industry, and support progress against national priorities, aligning with the National Policing Digital Strategy.
Telefónica Tech’s contribution is its Predictive Policing Accelerator, built on Databricks. The solution helps forces make better use of policing data to understand crime patterns, identify emerging risks and inform operational decisions.
Supporting police reform through predictive policing
Police forces hold significant amounts of data across different systems, reports and dashboards. However, bringing this information together to identify patterns, understand changing demand and decide where resources may be needed can be challenging.
Predictive policing can help address these challenges by enabling forces to move beyond reactive reporting towards a more proactive approach. By analysing patterns in available data, forces can gain better visibility of crime trends and potential areas of concern, supporting more informed decisions about prevention and resource allocation.
Telefónica Tech’s Predictive Policing Accelerator brings data from multiple policing systems into a single governed platform, providing a real-time view of crime, emerging trends, demand and harm-based priorities.
Turning policing data into actionable intelligence
The accelerator combines several capabilities to help forces explore their data and translate insights into operational action.
- Geospatial analytics helps identify crime hotspots and patterns across locations, supporting a clearer understanding of where issues are occurring and how they change over time.
- AI-generated insights help surface emerging trends and potential risks earlier, giving policing teams additional information to inform prevention activity and operational planning.
- Natural-language data exploration through Databricks Genie enables officers, analysts and operational leaders to ask questions of governed policing data without relying solely on specialist technical skills or predefined reports. Users can investigate trends, explore patterns and answer operational questions more quickly.
Together, these capabilities can help forces make better-informed decisions, target prevention activity and consider how resources can be deployed more effectively.
Responsible AI for intelligence-led policing
Technology must support policing decisions in a way that is transparent, accountable and appropriate for the sensitive nature of police data.
The Predictive Policing Accelerator is designed with governance and human oversight embedded into the platform. Its insights support professional judgement rather than replace it, helping forces use AI responsibly and retain control over how intelligence informs operational decisions.
Strong data foundations and appropriate governance are essential to making these capabilities useful in practice. They help ensure that insights are based on governed policing data and can be considered within the operational context in which decisions are made.
Supporting the wider police reform agenda
Police reform involves improving how forces use information, make decisions and respond to changing demands. Data and AI can contribute by helping officers and analysts identify patterns, understand emerging risks and make more effective use of the information available to them.
Through its Predictive Policing Accelerator, Telefónica Tech supports this shift towards intelligence-led policing, helping forces explore how governed data and AI can strengthen prevention and operational decision-making.
Our inclusion in the techUK Policing Solutions Book highlights the role this capability can play in addressing the challenges facing policing.
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