Research areas
Technological advancement, digitalization and internationalization mean that the police must carry out their social mission in a landscape that is increasingly complex and dynamic. The research group aims to contribute to a knowledge-based development of the police. The key questions are how technology and digitalization affect the development of crime and how the police themselves are affected by these factors. The Internet and mobile networks facilitate crime that takes place anonymously across national borders. Both intelligence activities and crime prevention, as well as investigations and prosecutions, require international cooperation between police cultures that may have significant differences. Digitalization also has major effects on the police's working methods and creates new requirements for the police's strategies, transparency, quality management of work processes and competence needs. More generally, ethical dilemmas and legal gray areas arise where the core question is how effectively the possibilities of technology can be utilized without compromising the rule of law, privacy rights and freedom of expression.
The research group is multidisciplinary (social sciences, police, law, philosophy and technology), and deals with all parts of the police's social mission. The members come from the Police Academy, the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and OsloMet. In addition, police officers with a doctorate or who have a relevant master's / s’ participate in PhD courses.
Ongoing research projects
The importance of human factor for the quality of data evidence
Nina Sunde
Rune Nordvik
Artificial intelligence and police work
Inger Marie Sunde, Nina Sunde, Joshua Phelps, Jens Erik Paulsen, Katrin Franke
Mapping and forecasting crime trends in smaller cities – relevance for Norwegian research and policing
Annica Allvin
Changing police methods: Police risk management and the public
Helene Gundhus
Police efforts against organized and financial crime
Annette Vestby
Criminal procedural regulation of data seizures
Inger Marie Sunde
Collaboration partners
- Northumbria University
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, University of Oslo
- Aalborg University
- Umeå University
- University of Bergen
- Stockholm University
- Police Academy of The Netherlands
- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
Contact us
Interesetd in knowing more about or research, or collaborate, contact Nina Sunde nina.sunde@phs.no or Ingvild Bruce ingvild.bruce@phs.no