Svetlozar Markov
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.
His scholarly work is focused on issues surrounding organized and economic crime, crime networks and social network analysis.
He 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.
He 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.
Sessions
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.
This 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.