Imaginative Scenario Planning for Law Enforcement Organisations
This project investigates scenario planning for future security threats by engaging with law organisations in the Netherlands and the UK.
Scenario planning is a tool for organisations to anticipate unpredictable futures. For this, organisations need to:
- imagine a variety of possible futures
- undertake a holistic analysis of those futures
- strategically plan for the long term.
Future scenario planning is not widely practiced in law enforcement organisations, since they traditionally focus on short term operational and tactical planning.
The project aims to:
- critically review existing scenario planning theories and practices, and operationalise the concept for application to law enforcement organisations
- ientify the potential and competence for effective scenario planning practices in law enforcement organisations
- develop an imaginative, creative, and holistic approach to future scenarios in law enforcement organisations
- improve the capability to envisage otherwise unimagined scenarios in the fields of security and law enforcement.
To address these aims, the project will:
- investigate the policies and practices of two national law enforcement organisations: the Dutch National Unit and the UK National Crime Agency (NCA)
- collect new data through creative focus groups
- organise workshops to foster the co-production of new insights and knowledge
- develop a specific scenario-planning toolkit that encourages imagination, creativity, and holistic thinking in law enforcement organisations.
