Activities calendar

The overall objective of the training activity is to enhance the use of financial intelligence in criminal investigations.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify and improve knowledge on the use of modern analytical techniques;
• Analyse financial intelligence and draw conclusions, build workable hypothesis for the ongoing investigation (financial environment, key players, phase of money laundering);
• Identify patterns on various forms of money laundering (cash based, electronic, underground banking, and virtual currency);
• Exploit different sources of financial information.

The entire activity will be implemented online between 9 - 27 November2020.

The course materials and exercises will be shared via CEPOL’s Law Enforcement Education Platform (LEEd).

The course is an e-learning programme with a series of 90-minute workshops every other day to allow participant’s time to ask questions and showcase their work for feedback. We start and end the activity with a half-day session.

The training will be held in English; therefore, it is essential that applicants possess appropriate language skills. It is important that participants are open-minded, active and will be willing to share their ideas and experience during the learning process.

Nomination:

The online course offers 15 seats. In case you are interested to attend, please contact your local CEPOL National Unit / CEPOL National Contact Point as soon as possible. Deadline for nominations by CEPOL National Units: 3 November 2020.

Selected participants have to be registered to CEPOL's online Law Enforcement Education platform LEEd where the online activity will take the place.

The activity focuses on enhancing the detection of false documents by better understanding of the design and security features of identity documents and combating forgery, falsification and illegal use of documents related to serious crime.

The entire activity will be implemented online between 16-27 November 2020.

The course will be delivered over a period of two weeks. Participants are expected to study approximately 2.5 hours per working day during this period in order to be able to complete the activity (in total 25 training hours). While there is no specific time slot when participants shall be available for completing the course tasks, they should follow the course continuously on a daily basis. This is important as the attendants will need to cooperate with other participants virtually and complete small tasks then share the results of these tasks between each other and debate them collectively.

Besides the set of compulsory learning material many optional useful training files will be provided to ensure that those participants who want to learn more on a particular subject (e.g open sources intelligence) can do so. These materials will be freely downloadable so they may be studied outside the timeline or framework of the course as well.

It is important that the participants remain open-minded, active and will be willing to share their ideas/experience during the learning process

The training will be held in English; therefore, it is essential that applicants possess appropriate language skills.

Nomination:

The online course offers 35 seats. In case you are interested to attend, please contact your local CEPOL National Unit / CEPOL National Contact Point as soon as possible. Deadline for nominations by CEPOL National Units: 30 October 2020.

Selected participants have to be registered to CEPOL's online Law Enforcement Education platform LEEd where the online activity will take the place.

The aim of the training activity is to improve the collection, evaluation, collation, analysis, and distribution of information for the purpose of tackling all forms of crime.

The learning strategy is focused to enhance the capacity of law enforcement officers to integrate OSINT tools into cyber investigations.

Upon completion of the course, the participants are expected to be able to:

• Provide a comprehensive overview on the main work processes and general techniques that are necessary for the accomplishment of Law Enforcement OSINT;
• Make an overview about Law Enforcement OSINT approach;
• Explore the information available in various open sources;
• Enhance the use of general OSINT techniques suitable for the collection of intelligence;
• Strengthen the investigative methods, analysis, and distribution of information for the purpose of tackling all forms of crimes in clear web, social media, and dark web.

While there is no specific time slot when participants shall be available for completing the course tasks, they should follow the course continuously. Completion of the course would require around 1.5 hours’ investment / working day from the attending participants during the length of 4 weeks.

The course will be held entirely in English, therefore it is essential that nominated officials possess appropriate language skills. The entire activity will be carried out online hence the physical presence of participants will not be required.

No special experience is required from participants but it is important that they'll remain open-minded, active and will be willing to share their ideas/experience during the learning process.

Nomination:

The online course offers 35 seats. In case you are interested to attend, please contact your local CEPOL National Unit / CEPOL National Contact Point as soon as possible. Deadline for nominations by CEPOL National Units: 27 October 2020.

Selected participants have to be registered to CEPOL's online Law Enforcement Education platform LEEd where the online activity will take the place.