Early Warning to Early Action advanced technologies against Organised Crime and Terrorism

The COPKIT project was addressing the problem of analysing, preventing, investigating and mitigating the use of new information and communication technologies by organised crime and terrorist groups. This question is a key challenge for policy-makers and LEAs due to the complexity of the phenomenon, the quantity of factors and actors involved, and the great set of criminal and terrorist technological activities in support of OC and terrorist actions. It is a clear VUCA world effect (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity).

COPKIT proposed an intelligence-led Early Warning (EW) / Early Action (EA) system, directly related to the methodological approach used by EUROPOL in SOCTA. “Intelligence-led policing” offers a framework to guide operations, prioritizing needs and optimizing resources. EW explains how crimes are evolving, identifying "weak signals", warnings, new trends, and being a basis for assisting decision makers, both strategic and operational levels, in order to develop EA (preparedness, mitigation, prevention and other security policies).

AIT was responsible for the development of knowledge extraction components which turned unstructured content, harvested from heterogeneous sources, into structured knowledge. For that purpose, AIT employed state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques and adapted them to the law enforcement application domain with illegal weapon trafficking and crime as a service in the context of darknet markets as the main use cases. AIT’s data science group created a set of modular and re-usable services which can be adapted to new application domains or projects.

Facts:

• Projektbeginn: June 2018
• Projektdauer: 40 Monate
• Budget: ca. 5 Mio. EUR
• Förderung: H2020

Webpage: https://copkit.eu/