A national advisory body for ethics in policing
Summary report from a forum on ethics in policing hosted by the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG) in September 2023.
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Representatives of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) and the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) attended the quarterly meeting of BFEG in September 2023.
The representatives jointly presented a proposal for BFEG to act as a national ethics body and provide independent advice on ethical matters pertaining to the use of new and existing technologies as requested by policing.
BFEG supported this, and following the quarterly meeting, hosted a forum session at which stakeholders from across policing and other public bodies shared their reflections on both the need for an ethical advisory body for matters relating to technological and data projects within policing and on how BFEG may be able to move forward as such a body.
This report summarises the discussion and findings from this forum.