Historically, the nature of policing has been intricately tied to territory and the need to secure defined spaces (McCormick and Visano 1992; Ericson 1994; Ericson and Haggerty 1997; Herbert 1997). With technological advances, however, the real world has been simulated in a digital world of wires, ill-defined ‘cyber’ spaces and truly disembodied subjects. The result has been a significant change in our thinking about what constitutes ‘the world’. This is particularly so for the police: cyberspace has forced a challenge to this institution’s understanding of the meaning of territory (Huey 2002). The cyberworld, with its ability to amplify crime across time and space, has required law enforcement agencies to reassess policing roles and techniques in the light of new, extra-territorial spaces. The result has been the development of new forms of police ‘expert knowledge’, as well as increasing public-private partnerships through which police agencies harness the expert knowledge of other institutions (Ericson 1994).