- May 2025
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- June 2024
- Vancouver, Canada
- May 2023
- Sydney, Australia
- June 2022
- Bern, Switzerland
- June 2021
- Oslo, Norway
- June 2019
- New York City, USA
- June 2018
- Medellín, Colombia
- June 2017
- Toronto, Canada
- June 2016
- Sydney, Australia
- June 2015
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- February 2013
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“I think it is important to be there for your officers and not only in times of crisis. I visited all 140 stations in Israel to...
- December 2007
- The Hague, The Netherlands
“I was triggered by the word ‘glocal’. It refers to ‘think global and act local’, but also stands for ‘think local and act global”. Professor Jürgen...
- December 2008
- The Hague, The Netherlands
“The sharing of sensitive criminal investigations information is typical of the culture shift within the police: It isn’t easy to pass on information to colleagues that...
- December 2009
- The Hague, The Netherlands
‘’I find myself in the middle of an economic crisis and I am wondering what this will mean for the Singapore Police and the involvement and...
- March 2010
- Sydney, Australia
“New technology enables citizens to be journalists. Anyone can film and upload police incidents to the internet. This facilitates greater police transparency, but it can be...
- December 2011
- The Hague, The Netherlands
“It should be remembered that ever since Roberts Peel’s day of policing by consent in London some 200 years ago, modern policing has never stopped modernising...
- February 2012
- Singapore
“Police forces have to be economically sustainable in order to fulfill their responsibilities in the core functions. However, such core functions, such as solving crime, are...
- The 18th Pearls in Policing Conference will be hosted in Dubai, UAE, from 10 – 13 May 2025 and is organised by Dubai Police and the Pearls Secretariat in The Netherlands. The theme of the …
- The 17th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Vancouver, Canada, from 8 – 11 June 2024 and was organised by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Pearls Secretariat in The Netherlands. …
- The 16th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Sydney, Australia, from 21 – 23 May 2023 and was organised by the by the Australian Federal Police and the New South Wales Police Force, …
- The 15th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Bern, Switzerland, from 25 – 29 June 2022 and was organised by the Swiss Federal Office of Police and the Pearls Secretariat in The Netherlands. …
- Due to the ongoing uncertainty, global measurements and travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic it was unfortunately not possible to deliver the Pearls conference physically in June 2020. …
- The 13th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in New York City, USA, from 22 – 26 June 2019 and organised by the New York Police Department and the Pearls Secretariat in The Netherlands. The …
- The 12th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Medellín, Colombia, from 23 – 27 June 2018 and organised by the National Police of Colombia and the Pearls Secretariat in The Netherlands. The …
- The 11th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Toronto, Canada, from 10 – 14 June 2017 and organised by the Toronto Police Service and the Pearls Secretariat in The Netherlands. The theme of …
- The 10th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Sydney, Australia, from 11 – 15 June 2016 and organised by the Australian Federal Police, The New South Wales Police Force and the Pearls …