INNOVATION: The cybersecurity governance now in place in the NHS has been prompted by a series of painful catalysts, but the end result is a mandatory assessment framework open to public inspection; independent researcher and governance adviser Vsevolod Shabad argues that policing in the UK has plenty to learn from the NHS experience, as well as the opportunity through partnership with government to build something better.

OPINION: Independent researcher and governance adviser Vsevolod Shabad believes the language and internal communications architecture of British policing means that officers who highlight and escalate serious risk don’t always get the necessary response, and lack protection for their actions; with other high-risk professions having identified and addressed the same challenges, he looks at what policing can do restore the right for officers to speak clearly.

INNOVATION: The recent UK police reform white paper outlined Police.AI as a crucial part of the modernisation process; but Vsevolod Shabad, an independent researcher and governance adviser specialising in AI accountability and public sector decision-making, warns that operational gains do not follow automatically from the deployment of AI, and governance models that don’t have the organisational capacity or understanding to accurately scrutinise system outputs and performance offer governance in name only.