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Periodic Reporting for period 1 - I-LEAD (Innovation - Law Enforcement Agencies Dialogue)

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Summary

l-LEADâ€™s focus is on the incapability of groups of operational Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) practitioners defining their needs for innovation. This will be done in a methodological way, also with the help of the research & industrial partners supplemented by a broad range of committed stakeholders. I-LEAD will build the capacity to monitor the security research and technology market in order to ensure a better matching and uptake of innovations by law enforcement agencies with the overarching aim to make it a sustainable Pan-European LEA network. Earlier funded European research with a high technology readiness level as well as pipeline technologies will be closely monitored and assessed on its usefulness. Where possible a direct uptake from this research will be facilitated and implemented in the ENLETS and ENFSI networks supporting the action. I-LEAD will indicate priorities in five practitioner groups as well as aspects that needs (more) standardization and formulate recommendations how to incorporate these in procedures. As a final step, I-LEAD will advise the Member States through the existing EDBP-ESTP procurement group about how the outcomes of this project could be used in Pre-Commercial Procurement and Public Procurement of Innovation activities.

Work performed

The project during the first reporting period made solid progress for the establishment of a Pan-European network of LEA practitioners. I-LEAD has the capability to reach out to the â€œrealâ€ practitioners in law enforcement and to bring them together to discuss pre-defined topics in a methodological way, with the subject areas based within the realms of their day to day work. The bringing together of practitioners is done so via facilitated workshops, which have already been well received by the workshops participants. The workshops address the needs of the practitioner and defines tangible and practical gaps, which presently disables the execution of their work. The fact that is able to achieve this is because it focuses on the activities of â€œdaily policingâ€ and not on high level policies.

The trust and good working relationship between the WP leaders within the project is extremely high. This is due to the fact that most of the consortium partners have previously worked together for many years within the ENLETS network.
Having a good balance of partners that represent academia, industry and police will be of great benefit to the project as having a joint collaboration amongst these stakeholders will offer a more holistic approach to the issues of LEAâ€™s and optimise the outputs. The work that is undertaken at the Work Package level is solid and based on mutual interest with the sharing of experiences and knowledge maximizing the deliverables. This is already cementing future cooperation between a number of partners, which has led to two new Internal Security Fund (ISF) projects driven by partners of I-LEAD. The first of these focuses on Public Protection; Public Resilience using Technology to Counter Terrorism, (PRoTeCT), with the second looking at online drugs criminality; Law enforcement Innovation Open Source Networking on Drugs Criminality, (LION DC).

Another main outcome of the first periodic period was on the LEA organizations in Europe and the Police officers themselves. During this period, the project has planned and delivered five (5) subject specific Practitioner Workshops. The topics covered in the first 12 months were; OSINT, people trafficking, mobility for officers, intelligence analysis and emerging technologies in DNA. These were attended by 75 Law Enforcement Practitioners from their respective Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) from 21 European countries. This is a great success for the project as nine (9) of the countries represented at the workshops have been those from outside of the consortium. Widening the exposure of the project to a larger audience in this way means that any results deriving from the workshops will be of more value and reliable.

Therefore, it can be evidenced that the first year has increased the already existing strong collaboration between the partners and this will be reflected in the work of the project. It is recognised that there will be challenges for law enforcement, however, the project will promote, encourage and support the collaboration between end-users, academia and industry to make the required and necessary changes and activities within the security arena.

Final results

The main impact during the 1st reporting period was on the LEA organizations in Europe and the Police officers themselves. During this period, the project has planned and delivered five (5) subject specific Practitioner Workshops. The topics covered in the first 12 months were; OSINT, people trafficking, mobility for officers, intelligence analysis and emerging technologies in DNA. These were attended by 75 Law Enforcement Practitioners from their respective Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) from 21 European countries. This is a great success for the project as nine (9) of the countries represented at the workshops have been those from outside of the consortium. Widening the exposure of the project to a larger audience in this way means that any results deriving from the workshops will be of more value and reliable.

These activities mean that for the first time, front line police officers have been provided with a platform in which a structured framework of collaboration has been achieved. The impact of this work has culminated in the formation of five (5) new Pan-European networks. The networks formed have already provided the opportunity for experts to work together and will enable this work to continue in the future. Working as a consolidated community and being able to voice their defined operational requirements strengthens their position in a â€˜bottom-upâ€™ approach for future product development. Another positive impact of the workshops is that practitioners were able to meet â€˜face to faceâ€™ over a period of one and a half days.

Each of the Practitioner Workshops has proven to be extremely successful and has been evidenced by the identification of a list of capability gaps that has been used to attain a list of key priorities. These priorities were attained through careful and methodical discussions amongst the practitioners and moreover have been found to be new and unique requirements that have not previously emerged from the LEA community. The results of the workshops were recorded in a written report and formed part of the dissemination process.
In order to maintain the highest quality when delivering the workshops, practitioner feedback was required. The key findings to date show, practitioners were benefitting greatly when meeting in person with their peers. There was a 100% response in which they strongly agreed that they had made new contacts and listening to others and sharing ideas was useful.

The participation of the project partners to the public events such as international conferences, workshops and the exploitation of the social media of the project, actually â€œspread the wordâ€ about the objectives and the workplan of the project. In other words, how this innovation dialogue will create the pan-European network for Law Enforcement Agencies.