Surveillance
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- What cybersecurity threats exist for the use of drones in policing and how can they be mitigated?
- How can the use of technology support supervision, including remote supervision?
- What risks to personal privacy are emerging from the increasing ability to identify data characteristics unique to a person?
- Maximising opportunities from digital forensics in relation to crime prevention and detection
- How does the use of secure digital recording devices in Voluntary Attender Interviews with suspects impact interview quality, investigation outcome and jury decisions?
- How can candidate technologies for lawful knife detection and vehicle interdiction achieve usable size, weight, and power configurations?
- What are the potential criminal opportunities posed by emerging biometrics?
- How can we best communicate and understand the public’s perception of autonomous vehicles and drone usage in policing?
- How can policing capitalise on geospatial technologies to deliver new information forms that can enhance situational awareness and decision making?
- Using digital channels to prevent and disrupt crime more effectively
- What are the best practices for conducting pre-interview assessments to identify vulnerability or intimidation to determine appropriate ‘special measures’ and communication?
- What technologies can assist police officers in stand-off knife detection?
- How will disinformation techniques evolve to profit from the crisis? How do different societies or groups imbibe, use or combat rumour and misinformation? How will fear of pandemic resurgence affect the willingness of publics to accept greater surveillance
- How can behavioural science be applied to deter, detect, and disrupt terrorists using or targeting transport systems?
- What methods for data fusion and linkage across datasets best retain the anonymity of identifiers?
- What are the safety and line-of-sight flying concerns regarding the use of drones in policing and how can these be mitigated?
- From what other sources can police enrich their own analytical data where it is legal and proportionate to do so?
- 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):
- How can policing maintain the integrity of the evidential chain when processing and analysing audio-visual data?
- 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?
- What new opportunities for policing for evidence and intelligence gathering, as well as new crime possibilities, are being created by the rapid development in sensor technologies and increasingly diverse data emerging from our digital lives?
- What technologies can assist police officers in vehicle interdiction relating to e-scooter and e-bike crime?
- What methods can policing use to enable data fusion or linkage across datasets to enrich the evidence intelligence picture across both structured and unstructured sources?
- How can policing best provide Chief Officers and deployed officers with real-time information about workforce and assets, including remote briefing capabilities and file transfer?
- 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 novel data sources, such as advertising technology, that can be utilised by the police in evidence and intelligence gathering and/or pose new crime possibilities?
- What, if any, are the emerging risks to personal privacy and victim intrusion from new digital forensic technologies?
- What contributes to effective electronic tagging and monitoring, including GPS and radio frequency trackers, and sobriety tags, in protecting the public from harm? Are there specific groups of individuals for whom electronic tagging and monitoring is more effective?
- 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.
- Effectively managing violent offenders who pose a risk to the public
- What methods can be applied to increase the precision of policing’s risk modelling and subsequent actions undertaken?
- What methods and policies could policing use to identify deepfakes rapidly and automatically, while retaining victim privacy?
- What technologies can provide stable and resilient sensing capabilities in congested environments with high interference from digital and/or physical traffic?
- What computational and analytical techniques can deliver accurate, large scale, automated image capture, processing, and amalgamation, while maintaining privacy and proportionality?
- How can policing measure and demonstrate the level of accuracy in predictive algorithms?
- What novel millimetric wave sensing technologies can be used by policing to identify hidden objects??
- How can policing best implement and utilise situational awareness within policing practices?
- What technologies can be used to prevent crimes online, including the online mobilisation towards violence and terrorism?