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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A LEA and an organization from the NOTIONES project consortium has been supporting the Kosovo Police, to develop and implement robust systems and processes for Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP).  The principal aims have been to implement processes that gather, quality assurance/grade, and assign information...

17 January, 2023

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]September 11, 2001 was a historic turning point also for intelligence which, failing spectacularly, especially for the lack of analysis of information data however acquired, has rediscovered the factor HUMINT (human intelligence) and the importance of the analysis work, reducing the excessive trust...

16 January, 2023

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The vocabulary defines strategy as the branch of military art that studies, sets and coordinates in broad terms the operations of war. Terrorism is a form of asymmetric warfare. Terrorist tactics employ violence primarily against noncombatants and aim to produce the maximum informational...

13 January, 2023

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Europeans, although very concerned by the developments of the war in Ukraine, almost a kind of terroristic war that kill indiscriminately civilians, women and children, and even before by the growing transnational terrorist phenomena, have so far had a rather short-sighted, almost...

12 January, 2023

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Stylometric Analysis Stylometryc Analysis aims at analysing the key traits of a text in terms of vocabulary use and writing style which can help to identify the author, or some information related to their profile, such as gender and age. These traits are called...

11 January, 2023

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]NFT stands for "non-fungible token." It is a kind of digital asset that shows possession of a certain thing or asset. NFTs are kept on a blockchain, a distributed ledger that makes it possible to trace transactions securely and openly. Mostly NFTs have...

10 January, 2023

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Terrorism is a war that can become global, sometimes subtle, with difficult adversaries, not only to identify, but also to indicate, with friends sometimes more uncomfortable than the enemies themselves, fought in secret, but also on live television, suffered, feared, never declared, indeed...

09 January, 2023

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]To enrich the capabilities of the system towards the scopes required Expert.ai has led an experimentation for exposing fake charities destined to terrorism, through a hybrid computational stylometry/machine learning approach. The objective is to discern between true and fake requests of charity.  In order...

21 December, 2022

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Despite the rapidly increasing use of technology in law enforcement intelligence gathering, humans continue to play a vital role in assessing, rationalising and contextualising data sources, based on their experience and expertise; and while officers may be susceptible to a degree of cognitive...

16 December, 2022

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]With the Russian invasion of Ukraine once again highlighting the key role that social media and digital communications play in international state actions and legitimacy, Policing Insight’s Andrew Staniforth looks at a new European research project on the impact of online networks on...

15 December, 2022