Podcast Episode: What is the Future of Policing?

Growing polarization in society, increasing conflicts with law enforcement, a rapidly changing work environment, the influence of AI. Many forces that raise the question: What is the future of policing? This is the topic in a new episode of the UU podcast 'Focused on the Future'. Find the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or listen to it below!

Guests are:

• Theo Jochoms, Strategic Adviser at the directorate Strategy and Innovation at the Dutch National Police.
• Tessa Diphoorn, Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University
• Merijn Bruijnes, Assistant professor at the School of Governance Utrecht University
• Isabelle Frens, Researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University

This episode is related to the UU Network for Interdisciplinary Policing Studies (NIPS), which is an active network of UU researchers from various disciplines who engage with questions about policing in the broadest sense, acknowledging the wide range of actors and activities involved in maintaining public order. NIPS is a project of the Contesting Governance Platform, which applies critical perspectives to unravel how power is constituted and how it operates across particular institutional and societal fields.