A few low-tech thoughts on connectivity and the future of policing Fraser Sampson

1. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 A few low-tech thoughtson connectivity and the future of policing Fraser Sampson Chief Executive & Solicitor

2. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Modern communities are defined as much by what they need and know as where they are Communities increasingly access what they need and know via systems and interconnectivity The global and borderless nature of the supply chain – data, services, knowledge – creates ‘dependency paradox’

3. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Dependency paradox As we grow more and more dependent on distant, invisible relationships with technology and those who own it… We become less and less dependent on our neighbours Increased global connectedness mirrored by increased disconnectedness from neighbourhoods Neighboursbecome irrelevant + concept of neighbourhood redundant Could inter connectedness reduce community cohesion?

4. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 “Two centuries ago our forebears would have known the precise history and origin of nearly every one of the limited number of things they ate and owned, as well as of the people and tools involved in their production. ….We are now as imaginatively disconnected from the manufacture and distribution of our goods as we are practically in reach of them.” “The Joys and Sorrows of Work” Alain de Botton

5. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Arguable that there are no true borders left Who needs borders? The law does Law as we know it depends on boundaries and borders – physical and jurisprudential Law enforcement relies totally onthe concept of jurisdiction

6. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 5 jurisdictional theories in context of the Internet - all rely on analogue concepts such as territoriality, nationality and physical presence No borders = no jurisdiction = no enforcement ‘cyberspace’ (wherever that is) is becoming an almost unregulated jurisdictional outpost The realities of initiators and consequence proving too much for conventional legal systems

7. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Wattle-and-daub constructs of law and law enforcement practices Staples such as “crime scenes” and “perpetrators” no longer adequate Policing exits and entrances to cyber space never going to be enough Law is evolutionary – adapts and responds to changes in environment, particularly predatory change Law disconnected from the organic expansion of our communities

8. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Our single-dimensionalconstructsof jurisdictiondo not fit a multi-dimensionalinterconnected world New set of interconnectedrules dedicated to tackle“digital criminality”

9. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Summary Our communities are irreversibly dependent on technology and global interconnectivity The more sophisticated our communities become the more extended and extensive are our dependencies Dependency means vulnerability and vulnerability means risk. Whatever—and wherever— cyberspace may be, “cybercrime,” “e-crime,” “cyber-enabled” or inter connected criminality - the law has not developed and adapted at the same rate Methods for protecting communities are disconnected, anachronistic and parochial

10. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Challenges How do we avoid the dependency paradox of interconnectivity undermining community cohesion? How can re-connect our legal systems with the new frontiers of policing? …a few strategic connectivity challenges of the future – not just for policing but for our lives, liberty and livelihoods.

11. CENTRIC/SAP Event - July 2014 Thank you