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The overall objective of the training activity is to enhance knowledge on the application of financial investigative techniques in combating serious crime.

The learning strategy is focused to enhance the capacity of European law enforcement officers to integrate financial investigations into general crime investigations.

The activity will focus on sharing knowledge on money laundering typologies and demonstrating good national practices of the integration of financial investigations into various kind of serious crime – investigation – cases. A separate module will concentrate on the added value of cross-border cooperation instruments (Europol, Eurojust, CARIN, AMON and similar).

Topics will encompass the offshore challenge, cash collection networks, trade-based money laundering practices, money laundering techniques via virtual currencies or underground banking as well. Additionally through several examples it will be demonstrated how financial investigative approach contributes to serious crime investigations at operative level. The importance of suppressing crime enablers and the viable use of EU cooperation tools (e.g. Europol) will be also debated during the course.

The learning process highlights a learner-centred approach and will consist of:

• Independent Learning: reviewing case studies, watching webinars, listening short videos (podcasts), studying reading material (21 hours)
• Contact Learning via online forums: forum discussion with other participants, exchange of good practice (5 hours)
• Experiential Learning: a simulated case exercise is provided in the end of the activity which needs to be analysed by participants (4 hours)

The course will be delivered online over a period of 3 weeks, between 20 September - 8 October 2021. Participants are expected to study around 2 hours per working day during this period in order to be able to complete the activity (in total 30 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/assignments then share the results of these tasks between each other and debate them collectively.

The course will be held entirely in English, therefore it is essential that nominated officials possess appropriate language skills (at least B2 level). The entire activity will be carried out online on CEPOL’s Law Enforcement Education Platform (LEEd), hence the physical presence of participants will not be required.

Nomination:

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: 18 August 2021.

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 activity is to enhance cyber-investigation by obtaining information from the malware analysis process that will help locate criminals and their infrastructure.

Note: This course does not address reverse engineering and the disassembly of binary files.

The aim of the activity is to provide participants with an introduction to Open Source Digital forensics software, file systems, data carving, evidential digital artefacts, computer forensic strategies and data forensics. It also aims to disseminate the latest investigation techniques and methods and to promote the mutual sharing of experience.

The learning strategy is focused to support the participants to achieve the learning outcomes by following a learner-centred approach and interactive, participatory, practical and experiential principles in accordance with andragogic theory.

The activity involves didactic learning through presentations by subject matter experts and experiential learning by providing practical exercises. Live sessions will be included and compulsory to allow live interaction with experts but also with other students.

After each topic, the participants will have to complete an assignment that will allow him/her progress into the course and attend the mandatory live session. A summative assessment will be conducted by the participants at the end of the activity in form of online feedback, which is a condition for receiving the Attendance Certificate. The outcomes will feed into a Trainers’ Report, which will be used for quality enhancement of the activity in future.

After completion of the training activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Explain and apply the rules of forensics and reporting
2. Understand computer data representation and convert values between the binary, hexadecimal and decimal notations
3. Use a forensic distribution of the Linux operating system for basic tasks
4. Acquire and access forensically digital evidence
a. Plan portioning, create and format partitions
b. Use Imaging and Hashing
c. Forensically mount acquired images
5. Analyse exFAT and NTFS file systems and interpret related metadata
6. Recover deleted files and apply basic file carving tasks
7. Recover and interpret basic MS Windows forensic artifacts (registry, browser cookies and history, explore SQLite databases
8. Filter large text files like log files using basic regular expressions
9. Solve an integrated exercise applying forensics strategies and the knowledge acquired during the course.
10. Adapt his/her digital forensic tools use accordingly the acquired principle once agreed by line management.

The course will be delivered online over a period of 4 weeks, between 20 September - 15 October 2021. Participants are expected to study around 20 hours per week, including practical exercises and live sessions.

A computer with full admin access is required to do the practical exercises assigned during the course. A Linux Distro will be provided by CEPOL and ECTEG before the course and requires 8GB ram and 500 GB HDD/SSD, a USB2 port and a network interface.

The course will be held entirely in English, therefore it is essential that nominated officials possess appropriate language skills (at least B2 level). The entire activity will be carried out online on CEPOL’s Law Enforcement Education Platform (LEEd), hence the physical presence of participants will not be required.

Nomination:

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: 20 August 2021.

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 this activity is to enhance the use of the Passenger Name Record (PNR) by enhancing the capability of relevant staff to understand, interpret and analyse PNR data and to develop the presentation of results; and by improving and updating knowledge and share experience concerning the functionalities of the systems connected toPNR data; and by promoting partnerships with the industry in the PNR domain and reinforcing operational and strategic cooperation between PIU’s.

The aim of the activity is to enhance the investigation capacity of THB investigators, prosecutors and labour inspectors on labour exploitation and reinforce the cooperation between law enforcement and labour inspectorates by demonstrating successful examples of a multi-agency approach by means of concrete case studies.

The aim of the activity is enhance the knowledge on the legal, strategic and operational aspects of firearms trafficking.

The aim of the activity is to enhance the effectiveness of investigations and other enforcement actions in the field of environmental crime and to reinforce international cooperation in the fights against cross-border environmental crime.

The aim of the activity is to enhance the detection of false documents by better understanding of the design and security features of identity documents, and to combat forgery and falsification of documents related to serious crime.