Our colleague doc. Mgr. Oldřich Krulík, Ph.D. published a study on the topic - Crowd science as a potential scientific discipline? To the specialist journal of the Population Protection Institute of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic – The science for...
Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the resilience of critical entities
Directive (EU) 2022/2557 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on the resilience of critical entities states that in the EU economy, critical entities, as providers of basic services, have an indispensable role in maintaining vital social...
Unpacking ‘commercial surveillance’: The state of tracking
The Research Service of the European Parliament has published a report on the current situation of the collection and use of information of social networks and mobile applications users, with a particular focus on Google, Meta and Amazon. Data collection and analysis...
Environmental crime – Financial interests of the European Union, economic recovery and the objectives of the Green Deal
Recent developments under the European Green Deal have focused on criminalization and re-engineering of regulatory frameworks to address environmental crime and its impact on the EU's financial interests. An extensive study on this issue was prepared by the Topic...
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report
Europol's annual report on the situation and trends in the field of terrorism contains statistical data, describes the main developments and trends related to the situation in the field of terrorism in the EU in 2021. It is based on verified qualitative and...
Opinion of the European Parliament on the proposal for a directive on the prevention and punishment of environmental crime in the European Union
In June of this year, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a fundamental amendment to Directive 2008/99/EC concerning environmental protection through criminal law. In order to improve the effectiveness of the investigation and prosecution of criminal...
British police plan to use behavioral data to stop ‘potential offenders’ from committing crime
UK police intend to use data on previous behavior to stop 'potential offenders' from committing crime. On this issue, current reports in the British media quote the Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, who announced that the force under his...
Certification of Methodology for the Protection of Public Social Events in Czech republic
19/09/2022 The Ministry of the Interior – General Directorate of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic issued a certification certificate for the Methodology for the Protection of a Public Social Event. This methodology is the result of the project...
Reducing the Impact of Crime – Experiences from Manchester
Design for Security is a crime prevention consultancy based at Greater Manchester Police. It practice specializes in design-led crime prevention in the built environment. It is a small team of professionals with experience in the planning, architecture, landscape...
The European Union implements innovations in the prevention, investigation and mitigation of the effects of petty crime
In the fight against crime, the European Union applies the project Cutting Crime Impact (CCI), which aims to enable law enforcement authorities and security policy makers to adopt a preventive, evidence-based and sustainable approach to solving petty crimes with a...