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"abstract": "In the first part of the proposed presentation, Prof. Dr. Krisztina Karsai will introduce DIGICRIMJUS, an EU supported higher education strategic partnership on Digitalisation and Criminal Law. This partnership was formed by three renowned European universities (University of Szeged - Hungary, University of Konstanz – Germany, University of Istanbul – Turkey) and focuses on the new challenges for teaching, researching and practicing criminal law in the digital age. Digicrimjus is designed around four cornerstones: digitalization - criminal law & justice - legal comparison – teaching & learning. In this framework members of the cohort are not only focusing on traditional questions of criminal law (e.g., criminal responsibility in cases where AI has been applied), but also on other issues in the criminal justice system (such as investigating cybercrime or online visiting hours in prisons). The results of the three years research project (2020/21-2023/24) will be made widely available in the form of comprehensive study and training materials designed for future lawyers and experienced professionals. \r\n\r\nIn the second part, dr. András Lichtenstein will share his methodological experiences and good practices on teaching criminal law remotely and digitally during the current pandemic situation. He will introduce CLaER, an online „Criminal Law Escape Room” recently developed at the University of Szeged specifically for advanced law students majoring in criminal law and future legal professionals in the field of criminal justice. This digital learning material is designed to mimic in-person simulations and moots in the digital space using gamification methods. Apart from the teachers’ perspective, the presentation will also reflect on the students’ experiences based on their feedback and its evaluation. The two parts are closely related, as such methods are planned to be used in DIGICRIMJUS as well.\r\n\r\nIn their closing remarks, the presenters – both experts in digital training – will draw the conclusions of their recent experiences and share some of their future project plans.",
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"biography": "Micha Fuchs joined the Department of Police Training and Education of the Bavarian Police in 2018. His area of operations includes the development and evaluation of the police training, especially in the field of digitalisation and teacher training courses. Aside from his job, he is also working on his dissertation to become a PhD in Educational Science.\r\nBefore joining the Bavarian police, he obtained a master's degree in Educational Sciences at the Free University of Berlin, a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy and Psychology at the University of Jena and worked three years as a counsellor with young adults.",
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"abstract": "The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is and posed unprecedented challenges to almost every part of society including the police. While the scope of research on the impact of COVID-19 has been on police officers and their stress levels, their mental health, demands, and coping resources as well as the potential impacts of police legitimacy, the impact on police training due to COVID-19 has been a minor topic of research. COVID-19 and its consequences on police training illustrate a lack of digital preparation, equipment, and infrastructure, as well as a multitude of other challenges, which lie ahead of the police training. Among them are a demographic change combined with a divergent family educational background of the future police recruits, a new generation of police recruits (Generation Z) linked to a necessary new style of leadership, and the possible damage of the police reputation because of popular cases related to police violence, extremism and racism (e.g. public loss of legitimacy and acceptance). Furthermore, continuous new challenges can be found in the daily police work (e.g. cybercrime, complexity of operations), which affect police training as well. Lastly, there is the question of how the police force is willing to face, manage, and overcome these challenges after the Covid-19 pandemic to be prepared for the future. Following Winston Churchill's advice to ‘never let a good crisis go to waste’, the aim of this contribution is to point out key future challenges for police training and education, to show the mutual influence between these individual factors, and to discuss possible solutions as well as risks. The challenges and solution approach will primarily focus on Bavarian police training but can easily be transferred to almost any police training.",
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"name": "Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich",
"biography": "Sanja Kutnjak Ivković is Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University. She holds a doctorate in criminology (University of Delaware) and a doctorate in law (Harvard University). Dr. Kutnjak Ivković is currently serving as Chair of the International Division, American Society of Criminology. Her research focuses on comparative and international criminology, criminal justice, and law. Dr. Kutnjak Ivković received the 2017 Mueller Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Criminal Justice, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section. Her recent books include Police Integrity in South Africa (2020), Exploring Police Integrity (2019), and Police Integrity across the World (2015). Her work has appeared in leading academic and law journals such as the Law and Society Review; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; Criminology and Public Policy; Law and Policy; Stanford Journal of International Law; Cornell International Law Journal; Crime, Law, and Social Change; European Journal of Criminology; Policing and Society; Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management; Police Quarterly.",
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"title": "A European Perspective on Police Organizational Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic",
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"abstract": "The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic changes in many facets of social life, including the police. Prior research finds that certain changes in police organizations brought on by the pandemic were relatively ubiquitous across counties (e.g., wider spread use of personal protective equipment). However, other changes brought on by the pandemic (e.g., changing staffing, time off use, and workload) seemed more idiosyncratic. Further research attempted to explain these differences by looking at indicators of the strength of the pandemic. The results showed little to no relationship between the pandemic and many organizational changes in policing—and even some that were contraindicated. This begs the question: what factors could potentially explain this variation? One factor may be related to the quality of the governance, history of democratic government, and cultural traditions of the country. Given the distinct histories of countries in Eastern and Western Europe during the past 100 years, the European continent may be the perfect place to examine this question. Although countries in Eastern Europe have been under repressive communist governments for over five decades, most countries in Western Europe have largely been free from the direct effects of repressive governments. Although communism in Europe fell over 30 years ago, it is likely that the effects persist in countries in transition. Recent research shows quite distinct attitudes between citizens of Eastern and Western European counties on major social issues and views of the role of government. This paper directly compares the changes in police organizations in seven established democracies (i.e., Western European countries) with those in eight countries in transition (i.e., Eastern European counties). Additionally, we also compare changes in police organizations in adjacent countries. The implications and findings are discussed in light of how these factors may have influenced the differences in how police agencies in these countries responded to the pandemic.",
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"abstract": "This presentation focuses on the analysis of results from the longitudinal study carried out at the Portuguese Military Academy concerning the health and well-being of cadets of the Portuguese gendarmerie, named Guarda Nacional Republicana, during the outbreak caused by COVID-19.\r\nBased on available data from a survey (COVID-19 International Student Well-being Study) applied to all students who attended the institution in June of 2020 (249 individuals - 78% of the universe) and in January 2021 (366 individuals - 93% of the universe), we develop a portrait of the health and well-being of future military leaders and we compare with the remaining students from the Institution and others higher education institutions, in terms of living conditions, workload, levels of stress, mental health and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\nAligned with this scope “Pandemic Effects on Law Enforcement Training & Practice: Taking early stock from a research perspective” we expect to finish this investigation producing knowledge and tools to understand what is changing and what is needed to be done in the Portuguese security forces. On the other hand, we hope to recognize which are the successful measures implemented at the Portuguese Military Academy and the remaining challenges to guide the next steps of action, such as monitoring the students in more fragile psychosocial and well-being conditions.\r\n\r\nKEYWORDS: Military Academy; cadets; COVID-19; health, well-being.",
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"biography": "Sandra Walklate is currently Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology (Liverpool, UK) conjoint Chair of Criminology (Monash, Australia). She is also President of the British Society of Criminology. Internationally recognised for her work in victimology/criminal victimisation, this has over the last 10 years become focused on policy responses to domestic abuse. Her most recent publications include: 2020 Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change (Co-edited with K. Fitz-Gibbon, JM Maher and J. McCulloch) Emerald Publishing and also published in 2020 Counting the Costs Towards a Global Femicide Index (Co-authored book with K. Fitz-Gibbon, JM Maher and J. McCulloch) London: Routledge. She is currently the PI on an ESRC funded project examining policing and criminal justice responses to domestic abuse during the covid pandemic.",
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"title": "Domestic abuse: policing innovations during the pandemic. Lessons from England and Wales.",
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"abstract": "Presenting some initial findings from an ESRC funded project concerned with criminal justice responses to domestic abuse 2020-21 in this paper we focus on some of the short term wins and longer-term consequences of policing responses to domestic abuse initiative during the first lockdown in March 2020 and their ongoing utility since. Considered against the backcloth of what might count as 'innovation' this paper will consider these practices in the context of the longer-term processes of modernisation of policing on the one hand and police inter-connectedness with other branches of the criminal justice system on the other. The paper will conclude with some reflections on the lessons that might be learned from 2020-21 for responses to domestic abuse more generally. (120 words)",
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"abstract": "Artificial Intelligence impact on Security and Rights\r\n\r\nArtificial Intelligence is a technology with the potential to transform our life and our society, it appears to be the answer to several societal challenges that we face and being a real engine of economic development. However, we must properly study and address the legal, ethical, and socio-economic concerns that arise from its development and use.\r\nThe present study aims to identify the effects of AI systems on citizens' security, data, and freedoms as an integral part of society.\r\nWe give an overview of the concepts needed to understand the context and the inner workings of AI, then, studied concrete examples of AI applications in the security domain, specifically in the domains of Cybersecurity, Predictive Policing and Video Surveillance using Facial Recognition.\r\nThere are clear indicators that AI will bring about added efficacy and efficiency to the processes that the systems address, but we also concluded that there may be interference on citizens’ freedoms, rights and guarantees in the use of AI systems. We reflected on the measures that assure the development and use of AI systems in a responsible, ethical, and safe manner.\r\nThis challenge, requires us to follow a path of awareness of the capabilities and impacts of AI development, identifying guidelines to ensure respect for the citizens’ freedoms, rights and guarantees, while benefiting from the fruits of this technology.\r\nKeywords: Artificial Intelligence, Security, Rights, Cybersecurity, Predictive Policing, Facial Recognition",
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"abstract": "Community Policing was introduced as a pilot project in one of the coastal localities in the north of the island with a population of 11,823 in Malta in July 2019, with a view of expanding it to other localities by end 2020. The onset of Covid-19 in March 2020, with its subsequent lockdowns and prohibitions, threatened the future of this project in more ways than one, at least on paper. However, in practice, the initiative continued to thrive, to the point where Community Policing was introduced in another 11 localities around Malta by September 2020 with a view of expanding it to another 9 localities. \r\n\r\nThis paper looks at what could have made this initiative successful in spite of all the odds affecting both community and policing. The research involved 90 hours of fieldwork covering street patrol observation and unstructured interviews with the Community Police leaders and most of the officers in 12 localities over three months, This paper evaluates the main issues shaping the project on paper and in actual practice, and how the two fundamental principles behind it – community building and proactive problem solving – survived the pandemic and also managed to overcome clashes encountered with the traditional police culture of the command and control approach at the district level.",
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"abstract": "The lockdown resulting from the pandemic in March 2020 had a huge impact on the National Uplift Programme in England and Wales and the associated training of new recruit police officers in all forces. Overnight, all training had to move from the classroom to the virtual space. There is now a push for greater incorporation of virtual and blended learning programmes in police training for recruit as well as in-service officers. We were commissioned to undertake research to support the National Police Learning and Development (L & D) Executive Group by providing an evidence base for what works in virtual and blended learning programmes. As part of the broader project we interviewed L & D leads in 17 police forces in England and Wales regarding the experience of their organisations with online training during the pandemic and to gauge appetite in the forces (from trainers, trainees and senior leadership) for adopting a blended learning approach to underpin all their learning and development efforts. This paper reports the findings from the interviews and identifies the benefits and challenges of adopting a blended learning approach from the view point of L & D leads for police training going forward.",
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"abstract": "The COVID-19 pandemic has created several challenges for police forces. Whether or not the police can successfully respond to these challenges depends on several issues. These must be identified and considered to improve the police work's impact on each community and society. Laufs and Waseem (2020), in a systematic review and best practices for police response to COVID-19, identify four different contexts related to this issue needed to be researched and considered: 1. Police-community relations; 2.Psychological and mental wellbeing of police officers; 3. Intra-organizational challenges; 4. Inter-organizational collaboration and cooperation. Policing in a pandemic context has changed the type of relations between police officers and the community considering possible variations in crime patterns. Also, officers' officer's proximity with infected persons can be identified as one more daily stressor associated with police work. To mitigate the difficulties, adequate training and education must be set up to improve new competencies that can help police officers cope with anxiety about personal risks and develop new professional strategies to investigate crimes. To improve the knowledge about the changes and challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Portuguese Judiciary Police, the Institute of Criminal Police and Criminal Sciences is conducting a national-level study. The research is conducted in all the 14 departments of Judiciary Police using an online questionnaire based on a review of the literature. Several issues are identified considering the criminal investigation professionals' perception about the criminal patterns' changes, identification of stress factors related to police work, and challenges related to training and education strategies to be implemented.",
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"biography": "Criminologist, Scientific Coordinator at RISSC-Research Centre on Security and Crime (IT).\r\nLegal background and PhD in Criminology. She has consolidated experience in education/training, research activity and research coordination within national/international research projects, mostly co-financed by the EU Commission and public/private organisations. Her priority thematic areas of interest are ICT facilitated crime, with a special focus on illegal trafficking activities (e.g. medicines, drugs, NPS, firearms, tobacco) and economic organised crime",
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"name": "Valentina Scioneri",
"biography": "Project Manager, Research Assistant and Community Manager at RiSSC - Research Centre on Security and Crime. Fields of expertise: illicit drug trafficking, NPS and traditional drugs, terrorism funding, hate speech/hate crime.",
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"title": "Training and Education during the Pandemic Crisis: H2020 ANITA Project experience",
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"en": "Paper Presentation"
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"abstract": "H2020 ANITA Project (https://www.anita-project.eu/) is developing Advanced Tools for fighting online illegal trafficking, with a special focus on drugs, NPS and medicines, firearms and terrorists financing. \r\nDue to COVID-19, the project has been forced to reorganise the training activities for EU LEAs from in-person events to online sessions. Feedbacks from the participants have already been assessed and interesting insight have emerged. On the basis of this experience and considering also the positive and negative implications of online training, the project is developing new curricula to be proposed to better address LEAs in-formative needs and requirements about illegal trafficking activities facilitated by the online environment. The presentation will focus on the ANITA project experience and the new approach to training it is developing",
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"name": "Maria (Maki) Haberfeld",
"biography": "Dr. Maria (Maki) Haberfeld is a Professor of Police Science, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She holds a PhD in Criminal Justice from City University of New York. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces in a counter-terrorist unit and left the army at the rank of a Sergeant. Later she served in the Israel National Police and left the force at the rank of Lieutenant. She is one of the co-creators of Police Leadership Program for the NYPD sworn officers and the Academic Director of this program since its creation in 2001. In addition, she has created the Law Enforcement Leadership Institute for Police Chiefs in NY State and created an on-line Law Enforcement Leadership Certificate. She has trained police forces around the country and the world including, the Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Poland, India, China, Cyprus, Turkey, Mongolia, Taiwan and conducted research in over 70 police departments in the US and in 35 countries. She was a Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Justice sponsored grant, studying Community Policing in Poland and a co-PI on a number of other grants on studying police integrity and on counter terrorism police responses post 9/11. \r\nDr. Haberfeld also developed and trained some units of the US Military forces, including the U.S. Marines. \r\nShe has published 22 academic books on policing and over 50 book chapters and journal articles in peer reviewed publications. Her books were translated into 3 languages and are used by police departments around the country and around the world",
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"title": "Transitioning the in person into a fully online training – the impact of a year under pandemic on police professional development",
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"en": "Paper Presentation"
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"track": {
"en": "Lessons (to be) learnt for Management and Leadership"
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"state": "confirmed",
"abstract": "Law enforcement training during the year of the pandemic suffered a serious setback, as many other aspects of the daily routines. The effect of lack of training, or a seriously modified professional development, can have some significant impact on the way police profession is conducted and perceived by the employees. This presentation will overview the changes that took place, in the past year, in the delivery of the New York City Police Leadership in a Multicultural City Certificate, offered to the sworn members of the NYPD, transitioning this in person, 20 years old program, into a fully online delivery. The findings from the faculty who teach in the program will be shared and analyzed from the perspective of the perceived impact of the asynchronous and synchronous modes of delivery of a program whose effectiveness was predicated upon, intense, in person interactions.",
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"start": "2021-05-07T15:40:00+02:00",
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"code": "FVCF93",
"name": "Fazeelat Duran",
"biography": "Dr Fazeelat Duran is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Centre of Applied Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. Fazeelat has considerable experience in conducting research with front-line law enforcement staff and first responders to improve their workplace mental health and wellbeing. In her fellowship, she is working with “at-risk staff” in police, law enforcement and justice organisations to uncover the mechanisms for psychological harm through the novel combination of a mix of methodological approaches and a longitudinal design.",
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"title": "Impact of the current pandemic on intelligence and analytical practitioners working in police and law enforcement organisations",
"submission_type": {
"en": "Long Shout 10min"
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"track": {
"en": "Health & Safety Issues for Law Enforcement Officials"
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"state": "confirmed",
"abstract": "The World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) an international concern on January 30, 2020. During this infectious disease outbreak, emerging literature argues that front-line officers’ mental health is at greater risk whilst performing their duties. However, little is known of the impact on the work of professionals in analytical/intelligence roles in police, law enforcement and justice organisations. Therefore, this study explored the impact of the current pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of professionals working in these roles. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with professional in intelligence and analytical roles from different organisations in the UK and template analysis was used to analyse the transcriptions. Six themes were identified namely ‘Reduction of crime rate’, ‘Split teams’, ‘Facilitating offending’, ‘Isolation’, ‘Work-life imbalance’, and ‘Insufficient supporting resources’. From the findings, it was evident that having teams split with some at home and some at work led to difficulties in communication. Those working from home experienced technical obstacles in doing their work, isolation from colleagues and difficulties maintaining a work-life balance. In addition, most participants felt staff support resources were not sufficient during this challenging time. Thus, the findings highlight the importance of developing effective and secure means of communication for times when home-working is needed, and strategies to help home-workers to create a separation between work and home, despite both occurring in the same physical space.",
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"en": "Health & Safety for Law Enforcement"
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"start": "2021-05-07T10:00:00+02:00",
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"name": "Jessica Woodhams",
"biography": "Professor Jessica Woodhams is a chartered psychologist and an HCPC-registered forensic psychologist. Her primary areas of research are policing and sexual offending. She regularly co-produces research with international police and law enforcement and is the founder of the international academic-practitioner C-LINK network (Crime Linkage International NetworK), and Co-Director of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing at the University of Birmingham.",
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"title": "The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stranger sex offending in the UK",
"submission_type": {
"en": "Paper Presentation"
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"track": {
"en": "Changing Crime Patters during the COVID-Pandemic"
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"state": "confirmed",
"abstract": "Previous research has documented how factors within an immediate crime situation, and at an exo- and macro-system level, affect stranger sex offender behaviour and victim vulnerability (Beauregard & Leclerc, 2007; WHO, 2014; Woodhams et al., 2020; Woodhams & Labuschagne, 2010). It is these factors (economic, social), as well as individual victim, witness and offender routine activities, that are being affected by Covid-19. We present our initial findings from our analyses of the national dataset of stranger sexual offending in the UK, pre- and during the Covid-19 pandemic. We will outline changes in victim vulnerabilities, suspect characteristics and offence behaviour. We will suggest what these findings mean for the policing of sexual offences during this pandemic.",
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"en": "Changing Crime Patterns"
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"start": "2021-05-07T13:00:00+02:00",
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"code": "QZNU3X",
"speakers": [
{
"code": "8RUXFF",
"name": "Svetlozar Markov",
"biography": "Chief Asst. Professor Dr. Svetlozar Markov is from the Academy of the Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria. Currently he is working in the Department of transnational organized crime at the Police faculty.\r\nHis scholarly work is focused on issues surrounding organized and economic crime, crime networks and social network analysis. \r\nHe has strong theoretical and practical background in the fields of policing, police intelligence, security studies, criminal analysis and organized crime. His PhD research was on Social network analysis of international organized crime groups. Before joining the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior his career was in the economic police of Sofia District Police Directorate.\r\nHe have been working on many international projects, involving FRONTEX and CEPOL and actively participated in the 4th and 5th meetings of the Training group on PCC SEE in Sofia and Budapest organized by the PCCSEE Secretariat and DCAF-Ljubljana.",
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"title": "Police Intelligence Challenges during COVID-19 Pandemic",
"submission_type": {
"en": "Shout"
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"track": {
"en": "Lessons (to be) learnt for Management and Leadership"
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"state": "confirmed",
"abstract": "Police intelligence structures are faced with unprecedented difficulties in obtaining initial, reliable and suitable for analysis intelligence information. The new circumstances and unpredictable socio-economic factors determined by the COVID-19 pandemic, create the need for optimization of police intelligence and criminal information. Anticipatory information to police and security agencies on biosecurity and bioterrorism will be of paramount importance and invaluable. Due to epidemiological and health protection restrictions meetings with police informants and undercover operatives are maintained in conditions of uncertainty and with limited conspiracy opportunities, this way making the risk of contact disclosure enormously high. The reduction of direct contacts with sources of police intelligence information will have deep and difficult to recover consequences.\r\nThis will influence the police intelligence process by limiting HUMINT sources and increasing SOCMINT and open source intelligence information, but intelligence analysis will need to filter fake news and online misinformation.",
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