The police data challenge: Complexity, scale, and the search for the ‘single source of truth’

8th November 2023Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

The exponential growth in data sources offers policing significant opportunities for investigating and intelligence gathering, but brings with it new obstacles around the scale, complexity and consistency of data; in the first in a series of five features looking at the police use of data, Policing Insight’s Keith Potter looks at some of those key challenges at a force and national level.

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The police data challenge: Complexity, scale, and the search for the ‘single source of truth’

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