This article examines the challenges of functional adaptation faced by the police in response to technologically driven changes in the nature of crime. It also recounts how research under the auspices of a ‘dark web’ research project resulted in a search for an effective approach to engaging with investigators dealing with cybercrime. In doing so it tested, as a research methodology, a standard change implementation tool (problem tree analysis) from the Disaster Management and Sustainable Development (DMSD) discipline. This in turn resulted in significant consideration being given to the physical space in which that methodology is used. It presents the results of a workshop held with cybercrime investigators (not all were police officers) in terms of the importance of four key organisational and cultural issues (management, leadership and institutional ethos within the police; the risks of over-complication and exaggerated distinctions between cyber and real world policing; ethics; and knowledge, training and development) alongside the development and acquisition of new technical capabilities.

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数字或后数字时代的警察职能适应：与网络犯罪专家的讨论

本文探讨了警察在应对技术驱动的犯罪性质变化时面临的职能适应挑战。它还讲述了在“暗网”研究项目的支持下进行的研究如何导致寻找一种有效的方法来与调查人员接触处理网络犯罪。在这样做时，它作为一种研究方法测试了灾害管理和可持续发展 (DMSD) 学科的标准变更实施工具（问题树分析）。这反过来又导致对使用该方法的物理空间给予重要考虑。它介绍了与网络犯罪调查人员（并非所有人都是警察）举行的研讨会的结果，讨论了四个关键组织和文化问题（管理、警察内部的领导力和体制精神；网络和现实世界警务之间过度复杂化和夸大区别的风险；伦理; 和知识、培训和发展）以及新技术能力的开发和获取。