Previous Pearls Conferences

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 11th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Toronto, Canada, from 10 – 14 June 2017 and organised by the Toronto Police Service and the...
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...
The 9th Pearls in Policing Conference was hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 13 – 17 June 2015 and organised by the Danish Police and the Pearls...

“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...

“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...

“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...

‘’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...

“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...

“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...

“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...