Home Office (UK)

Research Problem

How social media can facilitate, monitor and discourage crime and recruitment into organised crime groups.

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Research and development relevant to legislative changes, for example the detection of drugs in vehicle drivers and the analysis and understanding of psychoactive substances.

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The social and psychological harm of new forms of crime.

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Factors contributing to vulnerability to exploitation, interventions for different groups and individuals, and approaches to targeting these interventions.

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Improving outcomes for victims and survivors, including children.

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Capability against money laundering and other illicit transactions, including relating to alternative currencies.

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Risk posed across sectors by different types of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other autonomous and unmanned systems, now and in the future.

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How can police resources be better tailored to variations in work load?

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Improving understanding of the activities carried out in the fire system and their effectiveness.

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Constructing secure evidential cases against offenders in a changing technological context.

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Recovering fingerprints from various materials; automatically processing fingerprints; getting additional information (not just the image itself) from fingerprints.

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Understanding the contribution of forensic techniques to the Criminal Justice System, within investigations and in court, including issues such as attrition of cases in the system.

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Relationship between extremism and integration, dynamics of friendship/familial and community relationships, and links between hate crime, other societal crimes and extremism.

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Allocating resources optimally, including using data science effectively (for example to improve targeting).

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Technology or techniques to identify prohibited and restricted articles (for example, people, money, drugs, tobacco, counterfeit goods and species that require a permit under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora [CITES]).

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How recruitment of cheap (migrant and native) labour balances against investment in new technology.

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Equipping refugees for life in the UK and for returning home if/when they can.

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Improved knowledge of the harms and impacts of SOC activity, including the economic impact.