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European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin Special Conference Edition Nr 4 Editors: Detlef Nogala Thomas Görgen 4 Nr. Edition Special Conference Justyna Jurczak Bence Mészáros Peter Neyroud Lucia G. País Barbora Vegrichtová EUROPEAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RESEARCH BULLETIN EDITION NR. 4 – SPECIAL CONFERENCE EUROPEAN LAW EUROPEAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RESEARCH BULLETIN Innovations in Law Enforcement – Implications for practice, education and civil society Editors: Detlef Nogala Thomas Görgen Justyna Jurczak Bence Mészáros Peter Neyroud Lucia G. País Barbora Vegrichtová EUROPEAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RESEARCH BULLETIN Special Conference Edition Nr. 4 Also published online: Current issues and the archive of previous Bulletins are available from the journal's homepage https://bulletin.cepol.europa.eu. (Continues from the previous title European Police Research and Science Bulletin) Editors for this Special Conference Edition: Dr. Detlef Nogala (CEPOL – European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training) Prof. Thomas Görgen (German Police University, Münster, Germany) Dr. Justyna Jurczak (Police Academy in Szczytno, Poland) Dr. Bence Mészáros (National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary) Dr. Peter Neyroud (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Prof. Lucia G. País (Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna, Lisbon, Portugal) Barbora Vegrichtová PhD (Czech Republic) Published by: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) (Acting Executive Director: Dr. h.c Detlef Schröder) Readers are invited to send any comments to the journal’s editorial mailbox: [email protected] For guidance on how to publish in the European Police Science and Research Bulletin: https://bulletin.cepol.europa.eu/index.php/bulletin/information/authors Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the articles and contributions in the European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin shall be taken by no means for those of the publisher, the editors or the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training. Sole responsibility lies with the authors of the articles and contributions. The publisher is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2019 Print ISSN 2599-5855 QR-AG-18-002-EN-C PDF ISSN 2599-5863 QR-AG-18-002-EN-N © CEPOL – European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training, 2019 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. SPECIAL CONFERENCE EDITION Nr. 4 Innovations in Law Enforcement – Implications for practice, education and civil society 2017 CEPOL European Police Science and Research Conference Budapest, Hungary 28-30 November 2017 Editors: Detlef Nogala Thomas Görgen Justyna Jurczak Bence Mészáros Peter Neyroud Lucia G. País Barbora Vegrichtová Content Content Editorial Introduction Innovations in Law Enforcement – Introduction to the Special Conference Edition ..............7 Detlef Nogala, Detlef Schröder INNOVATION: The Institutional Context Welcome Address CEPOL 2017 Research and Science Conference, Budapest 28 November 2017 .................19 Anabela Gago Crime in the Age of Technology .............................................................23 Oldrich Martinu, Gary McEwen Application of Modern Technology for Migration Management ...............................29 Piotr Malinowski Reflections on the Triple-Helix as a Vehicle to Stimulate Innovation in Technology and Security – a Belgian case study ........35 Marleen Easton INNOVATION: Driven By Technology Opening Up the Black Box: Understanding the Impact of Bodycams on Policing ...............47 Sander Flight Automatic Weapon Detection in Social Media Image Data Using a Two-Pass Convolutional Neural Network ............................................................................61 Jens Elsner, Thomas Fritz, Laura Henke, Oussama Jarrousse, Mathias Uhlenbrock, Stefan Taing Critical Success Factors for OSINT-Driven Situational Awareness ..............................67 Babak Akhgar, Douglas Wells The T-Factor – New Technologies and Intelligence Analysis Learning .........................75 José María Blanco, Jéssica Cohen, Yaiza Rubio, Félix Brezo Applications of Data Science in Policing: VeriPol as an Investigation Support Tool .............89 Federico Liberatore, Lara Quijano-Sánchez, Miguel Camacho-Collados Decision Support Systems in Policing .......................................................97 Don Casey, Phillip Burrell, Nick Sumner Predictive Policing: Perception of its risks and benefits by police trainees and citizens ...........................107 Cyril Piotrowicz 3 European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Innovations in Law Enforcement Using Predictive Policing to Prevent Residential Burglary - Findings from the Pilot Project P4 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany .......................................................113 Dominik Gerstner Predictive Policing - Is It Really an Innovation? ..............................................125 Lúcia G. Pais Technopoly and Policing Practice: Critical reflections on innovations in police control technology ...............................................................................133 James Sheptycki H2020 Research Projects RAMSES: Internet Forensic Platform for Tracking the Money Flow of Financially-Motivated Malware and Ransomware ................................................................141 Holger Nitsch, Julio Hernandez-Castro, Edward Cartwright, Anna Stepanova, Darren Hurley-Smith Maximising the Security and Safety of Citizens by Strengthening the Connection between the Police and Communities They Serve ....................................................147 Holger Nitsch, Ben Brewster, Babak Akhgar Developing and Testing a Community Policing Social Network in European Cities ............155 Georgios Leventakis, George Kokkinis A Virtual Platform to Train Cross-National Police Teams in Team Collaboration and Police- Interviewing ..............................................................................167 Emma Jaspaert, Geert Vervaeke, Diogo Rato, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva The TARGET Project: Using VR and AR to improve police training ............................177 Lola Vallès, Alicia Moriana, Rotger Garcia Learning Innovation(s) Innovation Management in Police Organisations: Exploring the process from scientific innovation to police training ..............................................................189 Sirpa Virta, Harri Gustafsberg Management and Leadership Training in Police Organization: The EMBA in Policing ......................................................................197 Tiina Koivuniemi Effectiveness of Simulation-Based Learning in Basic Police Training ..........................207 Andrea Beinicke, Albin Muff Integrated Concept for the Training of Trainers Within Police Cooperation of the EU Member States ...........................................................................213 Žaneta Navickienė, Vidmantas Vadeikis Applied Innovation The Police Café – An efficient method for improving the dialogues between the police and the community ....221 Katalin Molnár, Erna Uricska Recording Hate Crime: Technical solutions in a training vacuum .............................227 Amanda Haynes, Jennifer Schweppe Croatian Model of Telecommunication Information Requests Management (TIRM) ...........239 Damir Osterman, Damir Maračić 4 Content New Technologies and the Need for New Law Enforcement Capabilities: Situational analysis in North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia .......................................245 Kristina Doda, Aleksandar Vanchoski Interoperability: Diagnosing a novel assessment model .....................................255 Sérgio Felgueiras, Lúcia G. Pais, Sónia M. A. Morgado MOLECULA: The Tax, Economic and Financial Investigation of Transnational Organised Crime in European Union ..................................................................261 Nelson Macedo da Cruz 5 Editorial Introduction Innovations in Law Enforcement – Introduction to the Special Conference Edition Innovations in Law Enforcement – Introduction to the Special Conference Edition Detlef Nogala Detlef Schröder European Agency for Law Enforcement Training, Budapest Being no exception to any other walk of modern life, considering the developments and novelties in terms institutions established to enforce the law (the police, of strategy, tactics and equipment since the modest customs, judiciary and others), often find themselves beginnings of modern formats of policing in the mid subject to calls for more efficiency, efficacy and- bet 19 th century and onwards. However, in the academ- ter performance, in particular, when misgivings about ic and professional literature, the combination of the their capability for keeping public order or ensuring terms police/policing and “innovation” has caught at- citizens’ safety are entering the public and political tention comparatively sparsely, and only in the last two agenda. Looking at Europe alone and focusing on the decades, most likely driven by the rise of new manage- period after the collapse of the Sowjet empire, po- rial mindsets and even more impactful, by technologi- lice organisations in many countries have witnessed cal progress, this has changed. several waves of reform – some fundamental, some fractional. For an observer it would look like that over With this conceptual background in mind, the confer- the last three decades, at any moment, some kind of ence organisers2 had put forward “Innovations in Law profound police reorganization is happening in at least Enforcement” as the leitmotif
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