Police forces in the UK are looking at increasing the employment of technology in policing on the front line. The establishment of a digital pathfinders programme across 30 police forces has reportedly driven the use of digital services in reporting and responding to crime.

Policing minister Damian Green, identified the next stage of police reform as being: “about transforming how policing is delivered at the front line. At the heart of this is how officers use technology and the importance of the role it will play."

He described to the College of Policing, how the government planned to transform all police services to a digital model by 2016, in a bid to increase officer access to information on the beat and reduce paper work.

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