The 31st annual Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) Conference will take place in Boulder, Colorado, at the Embassy Suites Hotel, August 7–9, 2023. The POP Conference brings together police officers of all ranks with crime consultants, researchers, and analysts from around the world to share innovative approaches to reducing crime and disorder. This year, the conference’s opening plenary session will feature Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS Office) Director Hugh Clements, National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Director Nancy LaVigne, and other police leaders discussing the evolving role of the police in modern democratic societies and the ways in which problem-oriented policing can provide direction and focus for the future.

The conference will also feature sessions from this year’s finalists for the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing, as well as other topics. Session topics include the following:

• Alternative responses to calls-for-service programs
• Animal poaching
• Avoiding responses likely to fail
• Building organizational support for problem-oriented policing
• Catalytic converter theft
• Credit card fraud
• Implications of online reporting for problem-oriented policing
• Improving the police response to active shootings
• Indecent exposure
• Introduction to Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)
• Introduction to problem analysis
• Introduction to problem-oriented policing
• Introduction to situational crime prevention
• Policing homelessness-related problems
• Policing people with mental illness
• Problem-based learning approaches to field training
• Reimagining campus public safety
• Responding to racial disparities
• Stratified policing
• Wildlife crime problem solving

For more information about the conference or to register, go to the POP conference website. For questions about the conference, you can reach the POP Center at events@popcenter.org or by phone at 980-621-9337.

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