NICE UK kicked off the year recently with its annual UK NICE User Group (NUG) meeting held at the Sketchley Grange Hotel near Leicester. Senior Police Officers and Project Managers representing 18 police forces and agencies across England and Wales came together with NICE to share their experiences and updates.

As we start 2023, there remains much work to be done if every force is to achieve the Policing Vision 2025 but we are ready for the challenge, to help deliver this transformative change across the whole of policing.

As we approach 2023, there is much work to be done if every force is to achieve the Policing Vision 2025. At NICE, we are ready to help police forces rise to the challenge.

More than a decade of underfunding continues to place huge pressure on police forces. After years of austerity and a global pandemic, most would have found it hard to imagine how the thin blue line could get any thinner. Yet, as we enter the final months of 2022, police forces along with everyone else, are now finding themselves facing truly eyewatering energy bills.

A growing number of forces are taking advantage innovative new technology (NICE Investigate) to solicit and collect evidence from the public. Two forces that are trailblazers in this area are Merseyside Police and British Transport Police (BTP).