Ian Thompson

Articles by: Ian Thompson

Four key police technology challenges: Doomed to deliver solutions that are already out of date?

9th April 2019

Opinion: Mobile data, interoperability, drones, evolving communications: just four of the key technology challenges facing policing right now. Ian Thompson, the CEO of the British Association of Public Communications Officers (BAPCO), looks at why it is so difficult to procure and implement solutions that deliver the benefits required.

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Ian is a retired Police Officer with a strong background in operational policing, control rooms and technology. Ian is proud to be the BAPCO CEO and to work with the Board and Executive Committee to develop the association, whilst at the same time promoting a greater understanding of the needs and possibilities of public safety technology. Passionate about the needs of ‘users’; under Ian’s leadership the association has expanded from blue light critical communications to a more inclusive membership working with all aspects of public safety technology for the benefit of everybody.