In this report I summarise the key issues and ideas that were discussed at the IPES conference, based on summaries that I presented at the end of each working day of the conference. Fifty presentations were delivered by 41 speakers from all five continents during the conference. On the first full day of the conference the topic was human trafficking; on the second day, presentations were given on the governance of police, domestic violence and the policing of it, and on police culture; on the third day, presentations focused on the police and policing, police governance and on the role of the legal profession. In this report I do not attempt to comment on each of these presentations individually, but rather on the main themes and ideas which emerged from the presentations on each of these broad topi