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2025 International Use of Force Expert Conference

"Global Perspectives"

This conference took place on April 29 - May 1, 2025 for 3 days at Anvil Theatre, New Westminster, BC with in-person and virtual attendance options. Save the date for our next conference in April 2027.

Thank you to the 275+ participants from over 50 agencies and 6 countries who heard from experts from Canada, the US and England on Human Factors in Performance, Civilian Oversight, Indigenous Peoples and Use of Force, Contextualizing Use of Force, and Use of Force Research in Corrections. Thank you for your interest and participation!


2025 Conference Videos

The conference recordings are available on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/uofconference2025/


Sponsors

We're thankful to our sponsors for their support of this incredibly important educational initiative for law enforcement.

TESTIMONIALS

What past attendees are saying about the 2024 Conference

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This was an excellent and well organized conference which I would, without question, attend again. Well done!

Excellent conference with an array of speakers addressing a variety of topics/issues. Very much enjoyed the material and plan on attending in person next year.

The committee that organized this was great! I really enjoyed my time there and the social was a good time. Thanks so much for this event and opportunity to connect with so many branches of LE and those who teach. Stephanie was a great host and really made the session move along. I enjoyed it all. I am looking forward to next year! I have spread the word to more of my colleagues and training contacts. Thank you!

I cannot express how happy I was to be able to attend this conference. I cannot thank the speakers and those who put it together enough. It was a very helpful experience and I have plenty of ideas I can bring back to my organization that will greatly improve our training.

Thanks again for all your effort in planning this conference. It was great to network in person and to have a Canadian use of force conference. I cannot begin to think of the amount of work this took.

The Conference was well organized and all you did a GREAT job to make the conference a huge success. Looking forward to next year's Conference 2025

Very informative and well organized. Thank you to all staff involved in the planning and implementation of this program.

Thankyou for putting it on and all the people involved to make it happen. Please let me know when next date is next year and will register.

30 years working in youth justice - youth corrections - the best conference I have attended.

Overall very good conference, learned alot and great networking experience. Would love to see more examples from outside of just BC. Also, incorporate some of the other leading researchers in UOF such as Force Science.

2025 Conference Committee:

  • Supt. Jenn Keyes – Chair
  • Ret. Sgt. Toby Hinton – Coordinator
  • Ret. Sgt. Brad Fawcett – Speakers
  • Kirsten Kronstorfer - Executive Admin
  • Rakiia Lolieva – Support Admin
  • Stephanie Dawson - Host
  • Alex Henderson – JIBC Legal Advisor
  • Cst. Brendon Frick – A/V Production Supervisor
  • Jane Denizmen – Website Design / Marketing
  • Wakana Tamura – Marketing / Social Media
  • Lynette Hawksley – JIBC Media / Marketing
  • Ret. Sgt. Mark Steinkampf – LETA
  • Sgt. Sandra Garofalo – Control Tactics Team – Travel Rep
  • Patty Pan- Financial Advisor

Website last updated on June 12, 2025. - JD

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