Le 01/01/2013 le projet sécuritaire européen e-POOLICE ou ePOOLICE (early Pursuit against Organised crime using envirOnmental scanning, the Law and IntelligenCE systems) a été activé.
Son intitulé en anglais est limpide sur les moyens et les objectifs:
« Organized crime is becoming more diverse in its activities and methods including “greater levels of collaboration between criminal groups, greater mobility in and around the EU, a diversification of illicit activity, and a growing dependence on a dynamic infrastructure, anchored in key locations and facilitated by widespread use of the Internet” (the Director of Europol, in his foreword to the OCTA 2011 report). An important means for law enforcement in combatting such crime is strategic early warning which is heavily depending on an efficient and effective environmental scanning.
For this, the ePOOLICE project will—in close collaboration with law enforcement partners, as well as criminological and legal experts—develop a prototype of an environmental scanning system implementing solutions applying the most promising technological advances and breakthroughs as provided by the RTD partners. The solutions will be tested an evaluated through running realistic use case scenarios that are developed by our user partners.
Central to the solution is development of an environmental knowledge repository of all relevant information and knowledge, including scanned information and derived, learned or hypothesized knowledge, as well as the metadata needed for credibility and confidence assessment, traceability, and privacy protection management. For effective and efficient utilization, as well as for interoperability, the repository will apply a standard representation form for all information and knowledge.
For effective and efficient scanning of the raw information sources, the project will develop an intelligent environmental radar that will utilize the knowledge repository for focusing the scanning. A key part of this process is semantic filtering for identification of data items that constitutes weak signals of emerging organized crime threats, exploiting fully the concept of crime hubs, crime indicators, and facilitating factors, as understood by our user partners.
crime threats, considering the validity and the seriousness of the detected threats, facilitating factors, and the availability and cost of countermeasures ».
Résumé rapide en français : ePOOLICE est un projet d'outil de balayage systématique du net, des réseaux sociaux, en coordination avec les citoyens, les moyens policiers et les autres acteurs de la sécurité, afin d'identifier et de prévenir d'éventuelles menaces criminelles ou terroristes.
Le projet qui est programmé pour une durée de 3 ans et un montant de 5295925€ dont 3493810€ fournis par l'Union Européenne mobiliserait déjà une quinzaine d'organismes / entreprises / universités au niveau européen.
Une offre de recrutement sur une mailing-list parle quant à elle d'une prolongation possible sur une quatrième année.
« You will be working within the University's Centre of Excellence for Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime research (CENTRIC). The aim of CENTRIC is to facilitate the triangulation between the four key stakeholders in the security domain: Citizens, Law Enforcement Agencies, Industry and Academia.
CENTRIC provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and the public to focus on applied research in the Security domain ».
Le vocabulaire employé ainsi qu'un document d'origine policière insistant sur la dimension locale du danger donnent à penser que la délation par le voisinage ferait partie intégrée des moyens de renseignement.
Le projet ePOOLICE ne serait qu'une pièce d'un puzzle sécuritaire plus vaste désigné sous le code FP7 security pour Framework Program 7th.
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