International Association of Recognized Police Officers

For most of the past decade, police leadership across Europe has treated recruitment as a communications challenge. Sharper social media content, better-produced videos, a more relatable spokesperson — the assumption has been that if forces could just tell their story more effectively to young people, applications would follow. That assumption is increasingly hard to defend. The Association of Swiss Police Officers has previously put the country's shortfall at several thousan

For most of the past two years, police technology teams across Europe worked toward a single date: August 2nd 2026. That was the day the EU Artificial Intelligence Act's heaviest obligations were supposed to land on the systems that forces use to profile suspects, assess evidence and identify people in public spaces. Then, three weeks before the deadline, the date moved. On 24th July 2026, the EU published Regulation 2026/1744 (the Digital Omnibus on AI), delaying compliance