KOBAN Concept

The KOBAN approach to CP emphasises the utilisation of small, decentralised police units, problem oriented working, and high levels of participation from citizens and local partners, all while focusing on a specific theme for the target community. KOBAN recognises reactive, proactive, and co active approaches to CP and places particular emphasis on facilitating co active approaches and solutions to police and community needs, while also ensuring local police forces are equipped with the capabilities ( skills, technologies), they need for effective intelligence gathering and incident response.

KOBAN’S Capability Model will identify proven methodologies, models, technologies, tools and best practices, and use them as a foundation for future proactive, coactive and reactive CP capabilities. This knowledge will help to build the AI Assistant as well as the App Factory for the development of further CP tools, methods and solutions tailored to the needs of stakeholders and adhering to social, legal, cultural, ethical and gender equality standards. These will be tested and validated in six pilot projects throughout Europe. KOBAN will support capacity building, embedding knowledge, skills and capabilities within organisations and communities leading to bespoke training for both police personnel, municipalities and citizens.

The KOBAN project will advance current knowledge and practices of CP by gaining an understanding of and new capabilities for CP in highly localised context. A set of new innovative, open capabilities will be hosted in the KOBAN App Factory, AI driven Community Assistant and CP based situational awareness capability in the form of a Multi faceted Intelligence Dashboard.

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