Hosted by the Dane County Sheriff's Office

The annual International Problem-Oriented Policing Conference is often described by attendees as the most substantive policing conference they have ever attended. Each year, police officers of all ranks , as well as crime consultants, policing researchers, and community partners come together to discuss what they have learned in trying to reduce specific crime and safety problems. Attendees choose the workshops they will attend from an agenda that will feature more than 20 different crime and safety problems.* In addition, leading up to the POP Conference, the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing sponsors an international competition to identify the top problem-solving projects of the year. The winning and finalist projects for the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing will be featured at the conference. Sessions are of varying sizes and use different formats, so you can choose the type of learning environment that works best for you.**

* NOTE: Session topics will be posted on this site as the agenda develops.

** NOTE: Conference presentations will be given in English but attendees are encouraged to bring interpreters if needed.

Registration Information

Register for the POP Conference

The registration fee for the conference is $595

Group Discount:  For every agency registering 5 or more persons, the POP Center will reduce the registration fee by $50 per person. If all attendees are registered at the same time, the registration system will automatically process the discount. If you have registered more than 5 attendees at separate times, please contact the POP Center at [email protected] or 980-621-9337 for assistance.

Registration payments may be made online with a credit card or by check. Checks should be made payable to the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and sent to:

Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
Arizona State University
School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
411 N. Central Ave., Suite 600, Mail Code 4420
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Contact Information

For questions concerning the conference registration, please contact us by email at
[email protected] or by telephone at 980-621-9337.

Conference Agenda

This year's conference will feature a wide variety of presentations, including projects from the winners and finalists for the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing.  Topics to be covered include:

• Artificial intelligence and POP
• Public safety in an era of climate disruption
• Introduction to problem-analysis
• Introduction to problem-oriented policing
• Introduction to situational crime prevention
• Improving problem-solving processes
• Reducing community disorder
• Sexual assaults and bars
• Violence around fast food restaurants
• Using GPS to find missing persons with dementia
• Pre-arrest diversion to treatment of drug-abusing offenders
• Carjacking
• Crime in and around licensed premises
• Youth violence and disorder
• Protecting disadvantaged children from harm
• Supervising and leading POP Stratified policing 
• Building your information resource strategy
• Improving assault investigations

• SCRAPing responses likely to fail

   

   

Day 1 tentative agenda

Day 2 tentative agenda

Day 3 tentative agenda

Hotel

Madison Concourse Hotel

Rate of $189 a night for Sunday, October 12th; Monday, October 13th and Tuesday, October 14th.  

Reservations can be made online at this link.