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"abstract": "2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic marked a turning point in peoples’ information consumption habits.\r\nIn an environment of extreme enforced isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people have increasingly been compelled to turn to online sources for information and guidance. Online news consumption rose considerably as quarantines began. \r\nSocial media, already one of the primary venues of social activity for millions of people who could no longer meet and talk in person, naturally became a primary source for news.\r\nIn this environment, misinformation and disinformation has flourished enormously. \r\nFor tens of millions, they face not only the effects on long term social isolation, but also the economic anxiety as they face an uncertain future in a fast-changing economy that threatens to leave many behind.\r\nAll of these factors have combined to create a “perfect storm” which is making more people vulnerable to disinformation campaigns.\r\nThese “campaigns” are a threat to our democracies and our way of life. They create social unrest, alarmism, disbelief, chaos and undermine public security eroding the global standing of liberal democracies. What could be the role of the law enforcement agencies, governments and the European Union? Are they sufficient aware of these menaces? Are they already tackling these challenges? In this paper we will try to answer those questions and propose some policy actions.",
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"abstract": "The following paper is based on interviews conducted in autumn 2020 with 28 respondents from across police services of Lower Saxony and Northrhine-Westfalia, two federal states in Germany. Some of these officers are in training, some teach in police academies, others work as front line officers or in management. All were interviewed for a project that aims to improve understanding of organisational memory in the police. In particular, the research investigated different forms of active knowledge in the police profession.\r\nOne of the lines of inquiry concerned the possible impact of the pandemic on learning processes. Responses strongly suggest the “porous passivity” (“löchrige Passivität”) that Stephan Grünewald (DLF, 6.3.2021) has found to be the general German public’s response to the anti-corona measures. \r\nWe found there to be five different, but not mutually-exclusive, aspects of responses to the pandemic. First, there is an impression that police work has not changed much due to the pandemic. Second, police officers greatly miss being with their colleagues, as they regard their job to be a very social one. Third, many say that the contact between the general public and the police has become more difficult. This is partly because of the mask that makes non-verbal communication more complex, and partly because people might think it too difficult to contact the police. Fourth, protection against invisible threats such as viruses and bacteria had been an issue before corona, so officers are happy that such issues are finally being taken seriously. Finally, perhaps the most interesting responses relate to the impression of at least some officers that corona measures are imposed from “above” (in the hierarchical sense) and need to be implemented, but that the real risk is much smaller than the political class assumes it to be. \r\nIn short, respondents do not seem to see much learning during the pandemic, but there is a yearning from many to once again be regularly “out there on the street,” and many are not convinced that the threat is all that dangerous.",
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"biography": "Gary Cordner is Academic Director in the Education and Training Section of the Baltimore Police Department. Most recently he served as Chief Research Advisor for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) LEADS Scholars Program and Senior Police Advisor for ICITAP (USDOJ) in Ukraine. He was a CALEA Commissioner (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) for nine years and has been associated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing since its inception. He is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University, where he served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety. Earlier in his career he was a police officer and police chief in Maryland and obtained his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.\r\n\r\nCordner was founding editor of Police Quarterly and is past editor of the American Journal of Police; author of Police Administration (10th edition); and co-author of Police & Society (8th edition). He authored several monographs for the COPS Office and NIJ, was Co-PI of the National Police Research Platform, and is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).",
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"abstract": "The Baltimore Police Department operates its own police training academy. When the pandemic arrived in March 2020, recruit trainees were sent home. Authorization from our governing authority was quickly obtained to resume training of recruits by distance, and Zoom training was initiated within 2-3 days. The model that was then followed for most of the remainder of 2020 was to \"front load\" topics that could be taught via Zoom, thus postponing in-person training for 6-8 weeks in the interest of social distancing and virus prevention. All classes of recruits were graduated on time, which was important in an agency with hundreds of vacant positions. However, supervision and motivation of recruits \"by distance\" for the first 1-2 months of police academy training was difficult. In addition, the forced separation of knowledge and skills lessons interfered with the desired process of integrating lessons and applying them in practical scenarios. To overcome these difficulties, and as academy staff gained experience with operating during the pandemic, the decision was made to return to fully in-person recruit training in 2021.\r\nThe presentation will provide additional details about implementing Zoom-based training, and will also describe changes that were made to continuing (in-service) training for incumbent personnel in response to the pandemic. Some distance (Zoom) training for incumbent personnel was developed and delivered, which meant that officers could sit at home and be paid to receive 1-2 days of training. This was a first for the agency, and it was well received.",
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"abstract": "The COVID-19 Pandemic accelerated the process of digital transformation and many services migrated to the online environment. The new technology brings us a lot of opportunities, but also some risks, because the current vulnerabilities can be exploited by cyber-criminals. Due to the lack of cybersecurity awareness and training, the number of cyber-incidents and cyber-attacks increased a lot lately, according to the latest statistics.\r\nThe presentation “The evolution of cyber-attacks during the COVID-19 Pandemic” describes the evolution of cyber-attacks, based on different official reports from law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity companies. It focuses on the EMPACT priority: cybercrime-attacks on information systems and analyses the main types of malware (banking trojans, ransomware, cryptojacking and botnets malware) and their evolution during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The paper presents both online threats vectors (email-based attacks, web-based attacks, social media scams) and offline threats and their impact to the information systems. Disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, 5G technology, Internet of Things (IoT) and social networks presents a lot of advantages, but also can be used by bad actors against us.\r\nThe presentation underlines the importance of education and training in this field and recommends measures to fight with the cybercrime phenomenon.",
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"abstract": "A COVID-19 virus pandemic spread globally within months since early 2020. It has affected practically all societies and all sectors of life. Also secondary level and higher education have had to undergo dramatic changes.\r\nFinland took heavy steps to fight the epidemic: the government declared a state of emergency in mid-March 2020, and all education institutions were closed for two months. Lighter limitations have been in effect ever since. Police University College, the only police education institution in the country, transferred approx. 75 % of teaching in degree programmes into distance mode within weeks. Not surprisingly, a large part of these activities was relatively improvised at the early phase. However, the quality of teaching has allegedly improved with time. Simultaneously, practical training soon continued, although only in modified smaller student groups.\r\nThis presentation aims to provide an early assessment of the experiences of COVID-19 epidemic from a police education viewpoint. Already at this early stage a few lessons are obvious: 1) teachers' competencies in distance teaching have improved considerably, 2) confusion of the pros and cons of different platforms has faded away, 3) students' expectations concerning distance learning have increased, 4) the hype around digital paedagogy has vanished, and 5) conceptions of what cannot or should not be taught virtually have improved. Some questions remain and answering them will require a deeper analysis. The following are examples: 1) How does increased distance learning influence socialization of future police officers? 2) Does a digital approach to police education affect teamwork skills and the mutual trust of future police officers? 3) Is it possible to condition police students into appropriate values and attitudes virtually? Based on these considerations an attempt is made to pave the way towards future police education.",
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"title": "Countermeasures to protect children from exploitation online, in light of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions",
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"abstract": "A rapidly evolving digital society, juxtaposed with the current covid pandemic lockdown, has created a perfect storm of uncertainty and confusion surrounding online interactions leading to harmful consequences such as the exploitation of children.\r\n As we remain confined to our homes, internet usage has seen a surge in activity. We work, educate and socialise online and parents working remotely grant children more unsupervised access to the internet which results in –as argued by EUROPOL -more exposure to offenders and becoming lonely and isolated, which offenders pry on. People of all ages and all technical backgrounds are introduced to similar platforms with various level of knowledge and intent. Who are these people, and what are their intentions are outside our remit of knowledge when entering the online realm and due to these knowledge gaps, we are placed into a dangerous position, one of ignorance and uncertainty. This paper will focus on producing the knowledge required for children to engage with online content and avoid potential situations with increased risk of exploitation. We ask the question of what - in the time of a crisis such as a pandemic - does it truly mean to understand the traps for child exploitation online. This will support the primary endeavour of prioritising preventative measures, rather than the knowledge to report after instances of potential exploitation have occurred. An Garda Síochána’s webpage on online child exploitation highlights the daunting nature attached to learning and understanding the various forms of technology children now have access to. However, nothing is mentioned about how social engagement offline and online is immensely different which seems a huge oversight and trivialising a pertinent factor when engaging with the topic of exploitation online, particularly now with the aforementioned increased unsupervised internet access. Developing a comprehensive source of knowledge and raising public awareness to this difference, would produce an inherent early detection system among the general public by means of education, and help avoid instances of exploitation before they occur.",
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"abstract": "Work on the topic Impact of stress caused by COVID 19 pandemic on police work and procedures is based on a survey conducted among police officers of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Croatia. Field research was conducted on a sample of 988 police officers in a „paper-pen“ format and provides an aspect in current situation and parameters of measure exposure and which categories of police officers were exposed to stress in so-called „first wave“ of appearance of virus Covid 19, and whether there have been changes in the work and procedures of police officers.\r\nThe aim of the study was to determine to what extent the emergency situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic was related to changes in the police work and procedures, to what extent it was related to stress among police officers and whether that situation led to procedure changes or eventually work mistakes under increased stress. The survey questionnaire used for the research consisted of four parts, and thus sociodemographic data were collected, immediate experiences with Covid 19 and engagement during the epidemic were examined. The third part is a modified standardized questionnaire that included 11 stressors and answers offered on a Likert-type scale, and the last part is a standardized questionnaire for stress that police officers experienced as a result of stress exposure at work.\r\nThe results of the research showed that due to the situation with the pandemic in the Republic of Croatia there were changes in the police work which impacted on different work aspects, procedures and regular tasks.\r\n\r\nKey words: pandemic of Covid 19, police work, research of stress impact on police officers, stress consequences",
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"abstract": "The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 in Europe marked a fissure in many areas of the society, including policing. As a means for containing increasing virus outbreaks, almost every government in Europe resorted to issuing strict lockdown measures, essentially halting all public life. Consequently, the police have been tasked with enforcing novel legal rules such as mask wearing, social distancing and curfews. However, due to the nature of the pandemic crisis, the enacted measures were often issued on short notice, leaving little time for legal scrutiny, nor for adequate communication – to the public or law enforcement agencies. The proposed paper – which is based on a project currently submitted for review – specifically looks at this intersection of hastily issued laws and their enforcement on the ground level through police forces and the subsequent issues that have resulted from this. \r\n\r\nStarting from an organisational studies point of view, we consider that the problems with “policing the pandemic” might emerge as a result from a three-level governance of pandemic response – the governmental/legal level; the organisational structure of the police; ground level policing. This means that issues that ensue due to unclear legislation might trickle down onto the ground level work of police, where individual officers need to enact these measures in the interaction with the public and within their own discretionary scope. Large scale pandemic response thus rests on the shoulders of ground level police discretion, which has the potential of creating frictions in the police-public relations. Problematising this issue and understanding how this might materialize in practice can help to better understand how these issues can be mitigated – in the current pandemic as well as for future instances of crisis as well.",
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"abstract": "Expectations of researchers, media, public officials, and practitioners seemed aligned with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Domestic Violence would rise, in prevalence and reporting, due to the effect of the lockdown measures on known risk factors, such as financial insecurity, psychological strain, social isolation, and decreased access to services. The data emerging paints a less uniform picture between different Member States and frontline responder sectors. \r\n\r\nOn the basis of data collected by the IMPRODOVA-Consortium, a clear empirical observation can be made: while a homogenous rise in service uptake in the social sector can be observed in each of the eight countries covered by the project, police reporting and data on domestic violence is comparatively heterogenous. While law enforcement in some countries recorded a sharp rise in DV incidents during the lockdown periods, others saw reporting numbers and data stagnate or drop. Working from the assumption, that patterns of violence are less heterogenous than the data collected by LEAs, the question arises how to explain this divergence.\r\n\r\nIn the presentation, three hypotheses will be investigated: Frist, heterogeneous data as statistical artefact. Second, specific forms of violence enhanced by the lockdown delay the uptake of certain services by victims. Third, socio-legal and organisational differences influencing reporting and data produce differences among Member States.",
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"biography": "Dr. Maria Alvanou is a Criminologist (International Research Doctorate in Criminology- University of Trento). She is a tutor at the University of EssexOnline (Department of Criminology, https://online.essex.ac.uk/kolbiography/dr-maria-alvanou/) and associated teaching staff at the Neapolis University Pafos (teaching Homeland Security online, https://www.nup.ac.cy/faculty/maria-alvanou/). She is actively engaged in the study of security issues, like: terrorism, various forms of extremist violence and radicalization to them, social unrest and the framework of prevention and countering measures for the forementioned phenomena. In her research she shows special interest about gender, with her doctoral thesis regarding women perpetrators in suicide attacks and her later scholar work on women and far right movements. Her postdoctoral research (supported by the IKY foundation) examined Internet incitement to terrorism. She holds a postgraduate studies title in History, Philosophy & Sociology of Law (AUTH). She is a member of ITSTIME Research Team for Security, Terroristic Issues& Managing Emergencies (Catholic University of Milan) and the Radicalisation Awareness Network expert pool. She is member of international expert networks, has lectured and participated in conferences abroad and her teaching experience includes Greek Police schools. She is a Supreme Court Defense Lawyer and as a Mediator and Fellow of the World Mediation Organization she focuses especially on conflict. Currently as member of the Working Group “Covid19 and Viral Violence” she looks into forms of violence related to the pandemic with the support of CONVERGE (National Science Foundation-funded initiative headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder).",
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"title": "\"Corona Crimes\" and law enforcement: implications for policing during the pandemic",
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"abstract": "During the COVID-19 health crisis there are challenges posed also for law enforcement. It is important not to neglect the side of the pandemic affecting the relationship between society and the state, as the latter is exercising its power through law enforcement agencies, responsible for enforcing COVID-19 measures and controlling possible violations. The proposed presentation will highlight the following implications : i. The construction of «corona-crimes» differing from the ordinary criminality police is trained and accustomed to counter, resulting also in cases of internal conflict and confusion for police officers, ii. Corona measures affecting the perceptions of citizens regarding the role of the police in democratic states: new roles attributed and/or old stereotypes re-emerging ii. Police officers’ health in danger by deliberate attempts of virus transmission (e.g. spread of bodily fluids against policemen alerts) or during arrest conditions of proximity with suspects, iv. Racial and other discrimination dangers during Covid-19 policing (e.g. Roma, alternative characteristics groups of population), v. Cases of excessive use of violence and control mechanisms for accountability. \r\nThe proposed presentation will use also results, info, etc from the research the presenter has been carrying out as member of the «COVID-19 and Viral Violence Working Group» (National Science Foundation funded Social Science Extreme Events Research-SSEER Network& CONVERGE/Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/working-groups/issues-impacts-recovery/covid-19-and-viral-violence). This COVID-19 Working Group effort was supported by the National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder (NSF Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF, SSEER, or CONVERGE.",
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"biography": "I'm a PhD in Psychology and occupy a position as Associate Professor in criminology at Mid Sweden University.\r\nDuring the past 20 years, I have been researching mental health topics in different populations such as persons with drug addiction problems, adolescent offenders, maltreated children, victims of intimate partner violence, and in the current project, police officers. Police officers, like other frontline workers, had to deal with the harshness of the pandemic in the context of their professional activity but they had also to enforce management strategies in many cases not well received by the population. How has this affected their mental health? That is the focus of my current work.",
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"biography": "Assistant professor (Med.PhD) with special interest in psychology and psychiatry.\r\nPolice education, Umeå university, Northern Sweden.\r\n\r\nCurrent projects:\r\nPandemic Effects on Law Enforcement Training & Practice.\r\nCan smaller caliber help police students markmenship.\r\nHow do police education relate to active duty.",
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"abstract": "Among different professional groups, law enforcement has been identified as one of the most hazardous and stressful occupations due to the complexity of roles and responsibilities that entails. Besides the usual job-related stressors, the pandemic has added professional and personal strain components that might severely harm officers’ mental health. \r\nThis study had a twofold objective. First, we measured the levels of Burnout, symptoms of posttraumatic stress, and general psychological distress on a sample of Portuguese officers (n = 1597) that volunteer for the study. Second, we examined the effect of the COVID-19 disease and perceived exposure to the coronavirus on their mental health. \r\nThe National Directorate of the Policia de Segurança Pública approve the study and spread the information and the link to the questionnaire among their officers. In total, 1639 respondents answered the questionnaire; 42 had not been in active service since January of 2020 and were removed from the analyses. As expected, disengagement levels, exhaustion, and psychological distress were higher than similar professional populations in non-pandemic conditions. Interestingly, those officers with more than ten years of active work reported higher levels of Burnout but at the same time, they showed to have fewer symptoms of posttraumatic stress compared to officers that were younger in the profession. Officers who were married or living in a partner relationship and had school-age children revealed lower levels of stress, in general, compared to officers who reported a different social living situation. Slight gender differences were found for disengagement only where women revealed higher scores. \r\nIn conclusion, as expected, the pandemic is having an impact on the mental health of police officers, but it is not a homogeneous effect that should be taken into account for any type of mental health intervention in this professional group.",
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"biography": "Master in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology at the Institute of Applied Psychology. Trainer in the Behavioral Field, particularly in Stress Management, Conflict and Motivation. Evaluator of psychological profiles in Community Policing projects. Head of Division of Studies, Planning and Control of the Lisbon Municipal Police / Lisbon Municipality.",
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"abstract": "Since the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic crisis, one of the main challenges in the Lisbon Community Policing (CP) model relates to the need of developing police and community capacity building in the delivery of Community Policing training. This policing model implemented by the Lisbon Municipal Police (LMP), embodies the integrated and bottom-up approaches that have been crucial to set in place responses to tackle local security concerns, engaging citizens and local partners to work with the police as co-producers of community safety. When the pandemic crisis began, some of the CP projects were in a planning phase, with the training program finished but missing the delivery of the training course. Due to the pandemic restrictions, a new strategy for its delivery was urgently needed. \r\nThe LMP was therefore “obliged” to innovate and make this process more flexible, with an approach that combines online educational processes with the traditional methods. Considering that the training strategy of LMP has been focusing not only on the development of professional skills (“learning to learn” and “learning to do”), but also in the development of personal and social skills ( “learning to be”), allowing police officers to deal with new urban security problems and social conflict situations – being this latter dimension more difficult to be introduced in an online format – it was urgent to design captivating formative digital responses, with the intelligent integration of gaming, in a permanent trainer-trainee interaction, promoting the motivation for learning and facilitating the contents acquisition. Flexibility was fundamental for the police organization to be able to cope with the new and demanding challenges faced in the last year. At the same time, a new challenge to the training strategy was also rising. The results of a recent research carried out by the LMP on the CP model under the H2020 Project CCI-Cutting Crime Impact, revealed the need of senior level police officers to be actively involved in the training planning, in order to ensure support to this model of policing often seen by the police organization as social work rather than real police work.",
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"biography": "Dr William Graham is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, specialising in policing and criminal justice studies, at Abertay University, Dundee. He is a former senior police officer in Glasgow, in the Strathclyde Police force and now part of Police Scotland, and he retired in 2010 after 30 years’ service. \r\n\r\nHis research interests are policy transfer in international criminal justice in the field of violence prevention initiatives, especially between America and the UK, and general policing studies. The topic of his Doctoral research was an in-depth case study of the policy transfer of the Cincinnati Imitative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) to Glasgow, Scotland, which he has recently successfully completed.\r\nWilliam is a member of Scottish Institute for Police Research (SIPR) and sits on the SIPR Education and Leadership Network. He is also a member of Police Scotland's Violence Prevention Strategy Group, as an academic advisor.\r\nHe was part of a Scottish Government research team examining the impact of Organised Crime Gangs on local communities in Scotland that has reported back to Government and is having an impact on the practices of organisations in the country. \r\nHe has recently been the Co-Principal Investigator of the team carrying out an evaluation of Police Scotland’s Mobile Working Project, which is part of the ‘Digitally Enabled Policing Programme’ (DEPP). This is an on-going project as part of the Police Scotland ‘Serving a Changing Scotland Strategy’. The MWP project equipped operational officers with a digital mobile policing solution to replace the traditional paper notebook system, to provide remote, live access to key policing information systems.",
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"biography": "Vasiliki Romosiou is a Police Major at the Hellenic Police, currently serving as Deputy Commander of a Police Department in the Police Division of Arta in northwestern Greece. She is also specialised in Crisis and Hostage Negotiations, currently Co-ordinator of Negotiators in the Police District of Epirus, Greece. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in “Philosophy, Education and Psychology”, a Master’s degree in “Counseling Psychology” and is currently a PhD Candidate in “Counseling” at the University of Ioannina, Greece. \r\nIndicative previous projects / publications:\r\n•\tRomosiou, V., Brouzos, A., & Vassilopoulos, S. P. (2018). An integrative group intervention for the enhancement of emotional intelligence, empathy, resilience and stress management among police officers. Police Practice and Research: An international journal, 20(6), 460-478. doi: 10.1080/ 15614263.2018.1537847 \r\n•\tRomosiou, V, Brouzos, A., & Vassilopoulos, S. (2017, November). Implementation and evaluation of a psychoeducational program for the enhancement of emotional intelligence, empathy, resilience and stress management among hellenic police officers. Poster at CEPOL Research and Science Conference “Innovations in law enforcement: Implications for practice, education and civil society”, National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary. \r\n•\tRomosiou, V. (2018, December). Police training innovation in the Hellenic Police: Psychoeducational program for the enhancement of emotional intelligence, empathy, resilience and stress management. Presentation at CEPOL webinar 76/2018 “POWER: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics and Resilience”, Police Academy of the Hellenic Police, Athens, Greece (03-12-2018).",
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"abstract": "The COVID-19 pandemic has created a health and socio-economic crisis with massive and profound consequences on police organizations across the globe. During the pandemic police officers continue to perform their duties on the frontline, facing unprecedented and stressful challenges, including an array of new emergency-related tasks, adherence to new policing protocols, high risk of exposure through daily interactions with the public and concerns of exposing family members. In this context, police officers are at high risk for developing various psychological problems, such as psychological distress, anxiety and depression. Therefore, the development and implementation of mental health strategies in police organizations is an urgent need. The current study presents the implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of an online group intervention for police officers during the pandemic. The purpose of the intervention was to ameliorate the negative psychological symptoms related to police work during the pandemic and to enhance police officers’ personal strengths and resilience. Participants were 95 Greek police officers, assigned to the intervention (n = 49) and the control (n = 45) group. All participants completed an online questionnaire at four time-points. The results indicated a significant increase in the intervention group’s empathy, resilience, and positive emotions, as well as a significant decrease in fear of the coronavirus, negative emotions, loneliness, depressive symptoms and anxiety compared to the control group. Changes remained significant in the long-term. The intervention assisted police officers in developing their personal strengths in a difficult period, indicating that personal growth can be triggered even in adverse situations. The current study suggests that online group interventions are feasible, efficient and effective at supporting and empowering police officers in adverse conditions where face-to-face mental health services are inaccessible.",
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"biography": "General William De Meyer has been a gendarmerie officer for more than 30 years.\r\nHe alternates between a carreer in France dealing with mainstream policing and assignments abroad.\r\n\r\n(i) Abroad and dealing with international cooperation :\r\n\r\n- he served in UN Missions :the IPTF (advisor to the Ministers of the Interior) and the UNMIK (as deputy, then special advisor for the 9 UN special police units) ;\r\n\r\n- he was police expert for the Palestine desk of the CPCC in the EEAS, before being appointed CPCC operational planner for EUAVSEC (South Sudan), EUCAP NESTOR (Horn of Africa) and EUBAM Lybia.\r\n\r\nMore recently he was head of the « world » under-directorate of the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs bilateral defence and security cooperation, and then special advisor for Gendarmerie and police cooperation.\r\n\r\n\r\n(ii) In France he was the Gendarmerie Head of\r\n- a mountaineering intervention platoon in the Pyrénées mountains (across the border with Spain);\r\n- a general purpose policing district in Moselle, sharing borders with Germany and Luxembourg ;\r\n- the Gendarmerie command of a Département (Yonne in Burgundy).\r\nHe was also appointed in the Gendarmerie CEPOL cell, and organised courses as well as delivered several lectures on civilian crisis management and CSDP planning (Bramshill, Austria, Hungary).\r\n\r\nHe is now the special advisor to the Directeur Général de la Gendarmerie Nationale for European and international matters.\r\n\r\nGeneral De Meyer is a laureate of the Ecole de Guerre in Paris, and of the British police strategic commander course in Bramshill (NPIA, UK), he holds a taught PhD « Police et sociétés » from the political Institute of Toulouse (Fr.) and graduated from both the Gendarmerie commissioned officer course and the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr.",
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"abstract": "The COVID crisis is unprecedented by its impact on population and territories. In this context the French Gendarmerie had to implement, beyond its usual tasks, the obligations linked to lockdown.\r\n\r\nThe main purpose was to elaborate and ensure a tailored security offer that ensure solidarity and cohesion throughout our country.\r\n\r\nThat’s the reason why the #RépondrePrésent operation has been planned and conducted for the half part of the French population falling under the responsibility of the French Gendarmerie.\r\n\r\nThe Gendarmerie’s operational answer to our territories’ concerns led us to listen, anticipate and help :\r\n- the mayors and local officials through their mandates and their local initiatives\r\n- the most fragile and vulnerable people (face-face meeting and digital communication, particularly for victims of domestic violence ; help for eldest people ; logistic support operations for food or medics)\r\n- the medical and nursing staff (protection in case of trouble ; logistic support ; protection of the stocks of masks or vaccine to prevent offences and criminal acts such as robbery)\r\n- the economic actors (protect the various companies or facilitate supply chain, prevent and/or detect cyberattacks)\r\n\r\nIn these cases, several innovative actions have been initiated which key factors were to\r\n- act in close cooperation with local partners through a local decision making process;\r\n- federate and mobilize capacities of our operational reserve while fostering the continuum of security with other forces (local police, private security sector)\r\n\r\n“For the population and by the gendarme” is our natural way of thinking. This motto is all the more appropriate in times of crisis as public service’s duty is to guarantee security and solidarity. This implies that in times of crisis, we have to carry out missions far beyond our traditional sphere of activity. This is, ultimately, the main goal of the #RépondrePrésent operation: being helpful to citizens.",
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"abstract": "Perhaps there is no dispute that during crises, and especially global crises, social crisis communication requires a high degree of commitment to the public and communities. In times of health emergencies, effective communication, which in this case means epidemic-risk communication, cannot be a one-way communication, it should be based on dialogue and has to be a process of wide-ranging multi-stakeholder information- and opinion exchange. Its purpose should not be solely to communicate rules and statistics data and to express expected behaviours. The pandemic-related police communication is expected to strengthen, amongst others, (public) trust, encourage the proper behaviour, help the civilians with their decision-making, provide an opportunity to articulate their concerns and doubts, and respond to them professionally and authentically. On 31st January in 2020, the Hungarian Government decided to establish the Operational Group responsible for defending and managing the coronavirus epidemic. Till now, the daily press conferences of this Unit were (and still are) the base for informing the citizens. The press conference genre has been taken to a new level by restriction of journalists and exclusion of spontaneous questions, that cannot be asked directly yet. The Operational Group selects the questions and mediums which are worthy of answers. In my presentation, the societal expectations with the experienced (governmental and police) practice will be analysed, comparing it with the general principles included in the work of theoretical experts of crisis communication.",
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"biography": "- Commissioner at the Spanish National Police. Head of the Intelligence Coordination Area.\r\n- University degree in Law.\r\n- Master in Public and Strategic Security.\r\n- Lecturer in Criminology at the National University of Distance Education.\r\n- Co-author of several articles at profesional magazines.",
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"abstract": "After one year of COVID- 19 pandemic, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA’s) are ready to asses how this extraordinary situation has affeccted to criminality. New opportunities have arised for criminals at the same time that many traditional “modus operandi” have become almost impossible to be carried on.\r\nThe objetive of the presentation would be to highlight the main changes in criminal patterns, in Spain, during the COVID-19 crisis, and focus on the impact of the pandemic on policing and law enforcement. \r\nSeveral graphics and charts would be showed using the POWER BI TOOL. This tool has been developed by Spanish National Police (after free software solutions), and allows to identfy trends and patterns in criminality, both in criminal areas and geographicaly.\r\nMain conclusions would be presented:\r\n-\tThe current crisis has affected present and future criminal scenarios.\r\n-\tCybercrime, counterfeitedgoods, on-line fraud and scams are some of the most affected criminal types.\r\n-\tLockdown has had an enormous influence.\r\n-\tLEA’s have been forced to adapt their ressources and methods.\r\n-\tInternational collaboration and operational cooperation apppear to be essential.\r\n-\tTraining and sharing of best practisses must be provided.\r\nKeywords: Pandemic, pattern, trend, prospective, threat, future steps.",
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"abstract": "The police usually present themselves as a service to the society. The public has become accustomed to seeing police officers on the media solving crimes successfully, helping and rescuing people in various accidents, saving animals. Positive presenting of police in the media, together with improved police work quality, contributed to the long-term trend of rising trust and confidence in Lithuanian police.\r\nDuring the COVID pandemic the police were tasked with ensuring the introduction of restrictions on movement and social distancing, compliance with quarantine rules, which had to ensure a slower spread of the virus. Police have also started to provide fewer contact services, less engaged in direct face-to-face contacts during crime investigations. Reduction of the visibility of the positive police work, gave the impression that the police are working less and worse on crime investigation.\r\nThe research is based on the analysis of the content of Lithuanian news portals and data of Lithuanian public opinion surveys about perceptions of public security in 2006-2020. The data shows that during the Pandemic, the image of the police is changing - from a positive of defending, protecting, helping institution, to negative, as mass public control institution. The police are forced to enforce the quarantine, movement restrictions, punish non-compliance with quarantine rules. Influenced by the media and changed nature of police contacts, public attitudes towards the police are changing, with consequences for public safety situation.",
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"abstract": "The paper presents an introductory reflection on the COVID-19 epidemic, recorded crime and police work in the field of crime investigation, especially in the first wave of the epidemic, in the spring of 2020 in Slovenia compared to the previous year. First, an analysis of recorded crime for the first nine months (January-September) of 2019 and 2020 is performed, followed by comparing crime rates and patterns in the same period of the first wave of the epidemic from March to May 2020. About the same analysis of recorded crime was conducted for the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana. Governmental measures for curbing the epidemic are also presented. The comparisons show that most recorded crimes decreased in Slovenia during the first wave of the epidemic in 2020 and the first nine months of 2020. Similar patterns were found out in the capital city. We also present the opinions of the heads of criminal investigation sectors at the Criminal Police Directorate on the incidence, the nature of criminal offences during the epidemic, and the criminal police responses. The findings indicate the need for additional victimization and self-reporting studies of delinquency, which could be a qualitative supplement to the official statistical data on recorded crime during the COVID-19 epidemic in Slovenia.",
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"abstract": "It is much remarked upon that the pandemic exposed underlying tensions and weaknesses in European societies (Marmot, 2020). Police attention, in enforcing lockdowns and other restrictions on movement and assembly, has tended to be disproportionately focused upon minority communities (Etienne, 2020; Amnesty International, 2020; The Guardian, 2020a). However, the first time in many cases, middle class white people have also been policed in ways they have not experienced. Suddenly, we were all conscious of the police officer’s gaze turned in our direction (The Guardian, 2020b). As a consequence, the pandemic has shed light on the use of police powers more generally. While police powers to stop citizens, to check their identity and to search or otherwise detain them have long been controversial in the US and in the UK, they have now become a focus of debate in Belgium, France, Germany and beyond. In a public health pandemic, the police largely continued to discipline the working class and minorities (despite the alarm raised by middle classes). Attention was not equally distributed and there is little to connect patterns of policing with, for instance, prevalence of the virus within local populations. Instead, policing continued to act as a disciplinary instrument in particularly problematic and unruly communities (Foucault, 2004 & 2009). This paper draws upon a review of policing of the pandemic undertaken by an EU COST Action (CA17102) on Police Stops. The conclusions drawn from this review echo those to be drawn from a more general review of police powers to stop citizens. Those powers must be clear, not just to the police officers exercising them, but also to those subject to them (Brown, 2020). Their purpose and their effectiveness in achieving that purpose must be subject both to thorough democratic debate and to clear consent. Their use must then also be open to scrutiny. In the absence of such clarity and transparency, the use of police powers can undermine legitimacy in particular communities and, in a public health crisis where we are all equal in the eyes of the virus, this presents particular threats to the health of all.",
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"biography": "Ms. Iwona Frankowska holds the position of Training Project Officer at Frontex, in the Training Unit, in Capacity Building Division, since 2016. She was the project manager of the Basic Training for the European Border and Coast Guard Standing Corps Category 1, being responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the training for the very first iteration. The training was conducted simultaneously in two training centres in Poland in 2020.\r\nMoreover, she is the project manager of the Common Core Curriculum for Border and Coast Guard Basic Training, and Mid-level Management Training in the EU (CCC Basic and CCC ML). Based on the EU legislation, these two curricula are setting the standards for the national border and coast guard training in the EU Member States. The responsibility covers all phases of the curriculum: development, implementation, evaluation, and update. The evaluation mechanism, Common Core Curriculum – Interoperability Assessment Programme (CCC-IAP) falls into Ms. Frankowska portfolio.\r\nPrior to working at Frontex she was a Polish border guard officer and held the position of lecturer in the Border Guard Training Centre in Kętrzyn, Poland. She has two master’s degree, being a graduate of Nicolai Copernicus University in Torun, of Warsaw University and Gdansk University in the field of philology, education and training and European Studies. Ms. Frankowska has proven academic competences and professional expertise in the fields of border security and management, and training. Furthermore, she has certified experiences in project management and application of Kirkpatrick’s model into training design.",
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"abstract": "The paper has two parts. The first begins with mapping out four distinct ways in how the COVID19 virus may effect certain groups incommensurately and lead to systemic and institutional discrimination. This is followed by an overview of how Roma throughout Europe have been targeted by racializing and securitizing populist political rhetoric (often coming from government or local governments and identifying ethno-culturally rooted reasons for higher infection rates and disobeying curfew and social distancing measures) and law enforcement action during first wave of the pandemic in Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine. Using the example of the Hungarian framework for policing multicultural communities, the paper investigates whether such legislation could in fact be used as a basis for such targeted action. Hungary is not among the countries where such anti-Roma political rhetoric would have been reported from, and its legislation on policing multiethnic communities is used, because it arguably fits within the model of adopting European and international standards and rhetoric. The paper introduces the concept of benevolent penal populism (which carries the potential to be turned into a malevolent one) to explain this threat and phenomenon.",
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"abstract": "One of the most important changes related to the pandemic has been reduction in traffic volumes. The police are even globally concerned about the increase in speeding during the pandemic. While traffic volumes have been reduced, i.e. roads have become empty in practice, the number of vehicles observed going above the speed limits has increased in many countries. Not only were more people speeding but the speeds were exponentially higher. In this presentation, traffic offence trends in Finland during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic are described and compared to previous years and Sweden. The number of serious speedings, over 50km/h above the speed limits, increased substantially in Finland last year. At least in Finland, the police have been worried about traffic behaviour of young drivers during the pandemic. Very often drivers caught for serious speeding have been younger male. One problem in Finnish traffic has been drug-based impaired drivers. These drug-drivers have become more common in relation to drivers who are under the influence of alcohol. In comparison to Sweden, however, there are proportionally more alcohol-based drivers in Finland and rates of impaired driving per population are higher as a whole.",
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