Investigation (criminal)
Research Topic
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Maximising opportunities from digital forensics in relation to crime prevention and detection
- Improving victim and witness interactions with the police service, particularly in relation to violent crime and serious sexual offences
- Constructing secure evidential cases against offenders in a changing technological context.
- How does the use of secure digital recording devices in Voluntary Attender Interviews with suspects impact interview quality, investigation outcome and jury decisions?
- What are the potential criminal opportunities posed by emerging biometrics?
- What are the best practices for conducting pre-interview assessments to identify vulnerability or intimidation to determine appropriate ‘special measures’ and communication?
- Measuring the impact of disruption of organised criminal networks
- 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.
- What are the needs and experiences of victims, defence witnesses, and those in distressing civil, family, or tribunal cases? How does this vary by protected characteristics, socio-economic or socio-demographic background and jurisdiction?
- Improving understanding of how changes in crime and non-crime demand are affecting how the police respond to incidents.
- What digital forensic advances can support crypto-currency investigations?
- Real world threat detection and mitigation capability, ensuring minimal impact on privacy rights. This includes the exploitation of more of the electromagnetic spectrum; compressive sensing; connectivity; use of video analytics; the internet of things; wider use of smart technologies including tracking and remote systems; advanced materials; informatics. ###Threats in the stream of commerce (including people, vehicles, freight, parcels; to detect threats to safety, security, economy, health):
- What are the reasons for case attrition and what works to avoid it, for different case types? What are the impacts of case attrition on victims, particularly for serious violence and sexual abuse cases?
- Understanding the drivers of homicide and serious violence
- How can policing maintain the integrity of the evidential chain when processing and analysing audio-visual data?
- Improving investigative outcomes and detection rates, particularly in relation to crime with a digital footprint
- What are the potential investigative opportunities for policing through the use of emerging biometrics, including the current limits of biometrics to identify and trace individuals?
- How can policing overcome challenges around the collection, processing and storage of (usually large) files from audio-visual materials, including when working with still compared to moving images?
- How can policing improve the process and workflow surrounding digital forensics, including democratising the ability to run safe, rapid and effective forensics at a crime scene?
- Novel methods of predicting/detecting explosive manufacture.
- Understanding differences in victim satisfaction across London
- What counter technologies may be used to trick large scale audio-visual data processing and analysis systems used by the police and how can they be mitigated?
- What is the best practice for conducting suspect interviews in the case of RASSO (Rape and Serious Sexual Offences) and VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) investigations?
- What ‘lab in a box’ or other similar technologies are available to the police for forensic crime scene investigations?
- How can we better understand flows into the courts and tribunals system, reasons for entry, and the impact of external organisations and their activities?
- First responder capabilities and approaches to decontamination and recovery.
- Supporting officers to adapt to an investigative processes where they have ownership from initial contact through to resolution
- What, if any, are the emerging risks to personal privacy and victim intrusion from new digital forensic technologies?
- Monitoring and analysing threats and hazards at incident scenes in real time, including the use of multiple and non-traditional sources such as crowd sourcing and social media.
- Are current national police interview models fit for purpose when conducting interviews with vulnerable suspects, such as those who have Autism Spectrum Disorder, Personality Disorder or mental health conditions?
- What computational and analytical techniques can deliver accurate, large scale, automated image capture, processing, and amalgamation, while maintaining privacy and proportionality?
- Wider role of forensics in crime prevention as well as detection, for example in safeguarding.
- What is the best-in-class digital tooling available for the forensic analysis of text, media and metadata?