What methods can policing use to enable data fusion or linkage across datasets to enrich the evidence intelligence picture across both structured and unstructured sources?
Background
"The ability to pass information quickly, accurately, and securely, and the ability to intercept or disrupt communications of others.
The scale and complexity of police information means that fast, reliable, and flexible fusion and linkage across datasets is not a straightforward process. We are interested in all methods, but they must be usable within the character of our working environment, in terms of varying data protection impact assessments, data quality, and the proportionate need for access. Methods that retain the anonymity of identifiers are of particular interest as they can enable us to better work with our partner agencies."
Next steps
"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation and Bluestar Software Limited
To develop novel Artificial Intelligence solutions for law enforcement agencies to automatically assess the value of evidential material to assist in the investigative process and improve the detection of crime. To exten...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing AI solutions for law enforcement agencies, which could potentially involve data fusion and linkage across datasets.
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Bournemouth University and Bluestar Software Limited KTP 22_23 R2
To develop novel AI solutions for law enforcement agencies to automatically assess the value of evidential material to assist in the investigative process and improve the detection of crime. Extend the capability to deri...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Similar to the previous project, this one also aims to develop AI solutions for law enforcement agencies that could involve data fusion and linkage across datasets.
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Citizen Forensics
This project reframes key challenges that underlie modern policing in a socio-technical world; a world instrumented with mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies, in which many citizens and communities live, work and...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it addresses citizen engagement and data sharing, but not specifically on data fusion or linkage across datasets.