While the literature on police and allied subjects is growing exponentially, its impact upon day-to-day policing remains small. The two worlds of research and practice of policing remain disconnected even though cooperation between the two is growing. One of the major reasons is that the two groups speak in different languages. The research work is often published in hard-to-access journals and presented in a manner that is difficult to comprehend for a layperson. On the other hand, police practitioners tend not to mix with researchers and remain secretive about their work. Consequently, there is little dialog between the two and almost no attempt to learn from one another. Dialog across the globe, among researchers and practitioners situated in different continents, is of course even more limited. I attempted to address this problem by starting the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES: www. ipes.info), where a common platform has brought the two together. IPES is now in its 22nd year. The annual meetings that constitute most of the major annual events of the organization have been hosted in all parts of the world. Several publications have come out of these deliberations and a new collaborative community of scholars and police officers has been created whose membership runs into the several hundreds.