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The College of Policing was established in 2012 and provides professional development, training and expertise intended to spread ‘best practice’, encourage innovation and to raise the standard and quality of police services. Visit their website to find out more about their work.

The National Institute of Justice is a sub-division of the US Department of Justice, and its website provides a wide range of material on crime mapping and hotspots policing. The principles and practices of crime mapping are outlined in detail and supporting research is analysed. The site includes software programmes used by crime analysts.

Privacy International is a pressure group campaigning on surveillance issues such as data protection, communication surveillance, border technology, ID cards, and others. The group’s website contains a wide range of resources, including country profiles.