ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES' INTELLIGENCE AND INVESTIGATION PROTOCOL BASED ON MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES (EMERITUS)

EMERITUS项目的目的是实现和实施一项有效的环境犯罪调查协议，利用创新监测和分析技术（无人机、卫星数据、虚拟传感器、地理情报数据等）的整合，以及一个旨在促进国家和跨境一级环境执法当局（如警察当局和边防局）情报和调查能力的补充培训方案。为了实现这一目标，EMERITUS联合会聚集了来自5个国家的8个警察/边防局、4名安全专家、2名培训专家和6个技术合作伙伴，这将成为该平台的核心。该联盟将专注于共同制定以环境犯罪调查为中心的调查协议，该协议将面向地理情报平台的创建。该平台将整合多种监测和调查技术及数据源，以单一视图支持警察当局和决策者。第二，将为警察当局和其他安全从业人员提供一个新的培训方案，重点是环境（废物相关）犯罪的调查和预防，将理论和实际模拟相结合，使最终用户能够实际使用该平台和相关技术。这些演习将通过基于4个现实用例（不同且日益复杂）的模拟，利用警察当局和边防警卫的共同意愿，重点放在临时示范点，并利用合作伙伴的额外模拟设施，验证平台和协议。该平台和协议的验证将为政策当局和决策者成功制定一套基于证据的建议。

The aim of the EMERITUS project is to realize and implement a protocol for effective environmental crime investigation, leveraging on the integration of innovative monitoring and analysis technologies (drones, satellite data, virtual sensors, geo-intelligence data, etc.), and on a complementary training programme aimed at fostering environmental enforcement authorities (e.g. Police Authorities and Border Guards Authorities) intelligence and investigation capabilities, at national and cross-border level. In order to achieve this goal, the EMERITUS consortium has gathered 8 Police/Border Guard authorities from 5 countries, 4 security experts, 2 training specialists and 6 technological partners, that will be the core of the platform. The consortium will focus on the co-creation of an investigation protocol centered on environmental crimes investigation, that will orient to the creation of the geo-intelligence platform. This platform will integrate several monitoring and investigation technologies and data sources, in a single view to support Police Authorities and decision makers. Secondly, a new training programme for Police Authorities and other security practitioners, focused on environmental (waste related) crimes investigation and prevention, will be delivered combining both theoretical aspects and hand-on simulations to empower end-users to actually use the platform and related technologies. Such exercises will serve to validate both the platform and the protocol, via simulations based on 4 realistic use cases (heterogeneous and of growing complexity), taking advantage of the shared will of Police Authorities and Border Guards to focus on ad hoc demonstration sites, with the additional availability of partners’ simulation facilities. The validation of the platform and of the protocol will result in the successful elaboration of a set of evidence-based recommendations for policy authorities and decision-makers.