2017 CEPOL Research & Science Conference

CEPOL 2017 Research and Science Conference

INNOVATIONS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT -

Implications for practice, education and civil society

Date: 28 – 30 November 2017

Venue: National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary

The guiding theme for the 14^th edition of the CEPOL Research and Science Conference, jointly organised with the Hungarian National University of Public Service in Budapest, was “Innovation”: how new ideas, technologies, concept - and new forms of crime and deviance - form and shape law enforcement institutions, like police, customs, border guards, prosecution and courts, and their demands for training and education today and in the future.

As before, the CEPOL 2017 Research and Science Conference will convene practitioners in policing and other areas of law enforcement, trainers, educators and scientific scholars from Europe and the international sphere. The roughly 220 participants, mainly from Europe, but also from Canada, Hong Kong, Thailand, Ukraine and the United States, attended more than 80 presentations, including poster sessions and practical demonstrations of advanced training hard- and software.

Plenary keynotes were delivered by

	Anabela Gago Head of Unit "Innovation and Industry for Security" in DG "Migration and Home Affairs" (DG HOME) at the European Commission
	Oldrich Martinu Deputy Director Governance of Europol
	Sean Malinowski Commander, Chief of Staff at Los Angeles Police Marjolijn Bruggeling Joyce Research Associate at California Policy Lab (CPL) and Project Lead at University of Chicago Crime Lab
	Marleen Easton Professor at Ghent University, Belgium, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia and Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
	James Sheptycki Professor of Criminology at York University, Toronto, Canada

Believing that law enforcement is a service for and on behalf of the citizens, we continue to publish the outcomes of the CEPOL Research and Science Conferences to facilitate science-based progress in this field of public concern. Where presenters agreed on the publication of their presentation files here at this public webpage, they can be accessed from the list below (alphabetically sorted by first author’s family name).

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE PRESENTATIONS

Peer learning: innovative ways to foster organizational learning within the police Otto Adang - Policy Academy, The Netherlands

Community Policing in times of new societal changes Babak Akghar - CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University, Uniterd Kingdom Holger Nitsch - University of Applied Sciences for Public Affairs, Germany

The T-FACTOR. New Technologies and Intelligence Analysis Learning José María Blanco - Guardia Civil, Spain Jéssica Cohen - Spain Félix Brezo - Spain Yaiza Rubio - Spain

Community Policing Evaluation in Relation to Community Cohesion: The Case of Croatia Ksenija Butorac - Police College, Croatia Irena Cajner Mraović - Croatia Mislav Žebec - Croatia

The digital police station a French gendarmerie project Marielle Chrisment - Gendarmerie, France

The civil volunteer security organisation as an innovative actor in the law enforcement László Christián - National University of Public Service, Hungary

The Road Ahead: A preliminary insight into the workings of Police Experts Networks in Post-Conflict Societies Tor Damkaas & Jaishankar Ganapathy - Norwegian Police University College, Norway

New innovations – need for new law enforcement capabilities Kristina Doa & Aleksandar Vanchoski - Institute for Human Rights, F.Y.R.O.M.

The effects of technology and innovation on police processes. Lessons learned from Belgian innovation projects. Arne Dormaels - Vias Institute, Belgium

Opening up the black-box: understanding the impact of body cameras on policing Sander Flight - Sander Flight Onderzoek & Advies, The Netherlands

Neuroscience and training practices Jean-Francois Gadeceau - INTERPOL

Innovation by Law Enforcement Agencies networking (ILEAnet) Thierry Hartmann - French Ministry of Interior, France

Achieving expertise in police intelligence practice through simulation Adrian James - University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Philipp Lohrmann - BMT Group, Uniterd Kingdom Steffi Davey - Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

MOLECULA Project - The EU fight against Financial, Economic and Tax Crime Nelson Macedo da Cruz - Republican National Guard, Portugal José Fontes - Portugal Vítor Nogueira - Portugal

Crime in the age of technology – how can the European law enforcement community tackle the new challenges? Oldrich Martinu - Europol

A common strategic theme for EU Police Chiefs is the ongoing disjointedness between policy, operations and training: – fact or perception? Antonio Molinaro - Italian Ministry of Interior, Italy Günther Humer - Province Directorate, Austria Céline Grassegger - Departmental Directory of the Public Security, France

An Efficient Method for Improving the Partnership between the Police and Community Katalin Molnár & Erna Uricska - National University of Public Service, Hungary

Core capabilities: Body-Worn Cameras in Portugal Sónia Morgado, Ricardo Alves & Manuel Magina da Silva - Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, Portugal

Democratic Legitimacy, Rule of Law and the limits of Technological Innovation in Policing Markus Naarttijärvi - Umeå University, Sweden

Automatic Identification of Anonymous profiles on Social Networks. Use of Big Data techniques for Semantic Recognition Casimiro Nevado Santano, Silvia Iluminada Ramos Perez - Spanish National Police Force, Spain Daniel Garnacho, Alvaro Ortigosa - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Malware and ransomware - new challenges for the security of European citizens in a changing environment Holger Nitsch - University of Applied Sciences for Public Affairs, Germany

An Garda Síochána’s Public Attitudes Survey: A move towards a multidimensional approach to measuring police performance Kate O'Hara - An Garda Síochána, Ireland

Building a network of academics and police organizations to address front line mental health Steve Palmer - University of Regina, Canada Gregory Krätzig - Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada

The Implications of Fully Autonomous Weapons Systems on Policing and Human Rights Rasha Abdul Rahim - Amnesty International

Implementation and Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Program for the Enhancement of Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Resilience and Stress Management among Hellenic Police Officers Vasiliki Romosiou - University of Ioannina, Greece

Dirigisme and Police Innovation James Sheptycki - York University, Canada

Surveillance technologies: ethics and rights Tom Sorell - University of Warwick, United Kingdom

TARGET Project– Training Augmented Reality Generalised Environment Toolkit Lola Vallés Port, Alicia Moriana & Rob Munro - Institute for Public Security of Catalonia ISPC, Spain

Innovation Management in the Police Organization Sirpa Virta & Harri Gustafsberg - University of Tampere, Finland

Additional presentation files are available on the R&S conferences pages of the CEPOL e-Net (registration and approval by CEPOL National or Organisational Units required).

The organisers would like to thank all presenters for their highly appreciated contribution and their commitment to sharing their knowledge and research outcomes.

A Special Conference Edition of the European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin with extended full papers of the conference contributions is in preparation, and it is due for publication later in the year.

CONFERENCE THEME

As in tradition, the CEPOL 2017 Research and Science Conference had brought together practitioners in policing and other areas of law enforcement, trainers, educators and leading scientific scholars from Europe and beyond.

The topical focus of the event was on innovations in law enforcement, examined through the lens of scientific research and academic study and looking at the implications from three different angles:

• from the point of view of the police or law enforcement officers;
• from the point of view of the teachers, trainers, educators in the law enforcement education systems;
• from the point of the citizens, who will be subject to and beneficiaries of innovative law enforcement practices.

The conference organisers had invited presentations, preferably based on recent empirical research or academic study, addressing the following areas and lead questions:

1. Which are the emerging innovations in society that are prompting a response from the law enforcement community, both in terms of adapting strategies and tactics, as well as the law enforcement educational requirements?
2. What are the expectable implications, benefits, risks or potential ramifications of introducing certain new technologies (gadgets or systems), organisational or operational concepts for doing law enforcement work in a new, innovative manner? Is it different for innovations that are driven or imposed by the outside environment as opposed to those that are emerging from “inside”? Where and when have law enforcement innovations failed and what lessons have been learned so far?
3. Which educational innovations will have significant impact on the training and education of law enforcement officials on the various levels of the organisations – and why?
4. Some innovations in law enforcement are received with great sympathy and endorsement, some with lesser enthusiasm by members of the civil society. What has to be taken into account in the management of the innovation process so a particular innovation is not perceived as ineffective, undue, unfair or even illegal? Are there innovative ways to manage a confrontation between the innovators and the preservers?

The two and a half day conference took place in Budapest, generously hosted by the Hungarian National University of Public Service. The organisation relied on its proven format of focusing on professional information exchange and facilitation of networking amongst the participants from different continents, countries and institutions.