The question of how to improve policing in South Africa isn’t new – but the pressure to deliver positive change is sharper than ever. How can real, measurable, systemic improvements be achieved? And what would an evidence-based approach that learns from experience look like?
The 2025 Evidence-Based Policing South Africa Conference is about making that shift. It will focus on a few urgent, high-impact topics. Each session brings together speakers with operational experience, decision-making authority or research expertise to tackle real policing problems and weigh credible options.
The conference aims to:
- Promote evidence-informed deliberation on key policing challenges
- Foster collaboration across agencies and sectors
- Translate lessons from research and evidence into sustainable practice
Six panel discussions will tackle these pressing issues:
- Identifying next steps to measurably improve police effectiveness
- Enhancing police oversight and accountability
- Embedding and institutionalising evidence-based policing
- Making multilevel cooperation work
- Integrating criminal justice system responses to organised crime
- Reducing firearm violence
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