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 AppFactory,AI driven Community Assistant and CP based situational awareness capability in the form of a Multi faceted Intelligence Dashboard.

KOBAN’s overall objective is to support community policing by delivering a comprehensive evidence based and capability driven framework based on SSH involvement and modern AI technologies, delivering a better recognition of community diversity, improved interactions with citizens as well as training, methods and solutions for CP stakeholders that:

• Strengthens community resilience towards various types of crimes, including radicalisation, guided by ethical, legal, cultural and social aspects in non-homogenous milieus and with social complexities, by identifying current and future challenges in local communities and describing capabilities needed for an efficient implementation of CP by police and non-police actors.

• Increases and creates positive, mutual and respectful digital interactions between civilians and police to increase trust and the ability to enforce the law by delivering innovative and new AI driven, tailor-made digital communication and analyses solutions for effective future-proof community policing.

• Equips police and non-LEA community actors with a modern, modular CP training programme to work in non-homogenous local milieus with social complexities, including balancing of majority needs while recognising expectations of minorities and/or vulnerable sub-group.

• Are integral part of CP, transferable and widely used by local police actors to increase the usage of the innovative solutions defined.

KO1

To identify proven SSH and CP methodologies, models, technologies, tools and best practices as well as current and future oriented proactive, coactive and reactive capabilities for Community Policing.

KO2

To deliver adapted co designed and state of the art tools, methods and CP solutions which are tailored to the stakeholders needs and compliant with societal, legal, cultural, ethical and gender aspects.

KO3

To foster capacity building, knowledge, skills and abilities that organisations and citizens need to jointly fulfill the CP capabilities responsibly.

KO4

To increase the exchange and visibility of KOBAN outcomes widely.

KO5

To ensure successful adoption and implementation of the KOBAN validated methodologies and technologies by LEAs and non LEA community actors within and beyond the consortium.