Ref. Ares(2016)3811136 - 21/07/2016
European Commission
Date: 03.03.2016
Joint Research Centre - Ispra Site
Mission No: DF-16-1178037
Mission Report
Name Institute/Unit/Project
IPSC/GlobeSec/EMM
Object of the mission
Meet with DG HOME to discuss ongoing AA and present interim report, attend
the ENLETS Disseminates Best Practices (EDBP) conference
Place, date, organizations visited and contacted persons
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01.-03.02.2016
, DG HOME
DG HOME, Brussels, BE
, DG HOME
EDBP Conference, Utrecht, NL
, Dutch Police (ENLETS Working Group)
Other Participants
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Main Results of the mission:
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Meeting with DG HOME
Background
The JRC and DG HOME have an Administrative Arrangement “Support to Open Sources User
Community” which consists of a number of activities to build a best practice community for the use of
open sources in law enforcement (commonly known as Open Source Intelligence – OSINT). The
activities include the organisation of events, such as the yearly EMM OSINT conference and the
further development and dissemination of JRC’s EMM tools which are shared with the law
enforcement community.
Discussion Points
I presented the progress on our AA with a draft of the due interim report. We concluded the following
main work packages in 2015:
Support to DG HOME’s analytical capacity ended as planned in 12/2015 under this AA and
will be continued under a separate AA which is already in place
We organised the 2015 edition of the EMM OSINT workshop that was again fully booked
with 50 participants from the member states. The event comprised presentations from OSINT
practitioners of EU MS and hands-on sessions to introduce users to EMM tools.
We conducted a user survey for the EMM OSINT Suite user community to learn more about
the user base of the tool and how to better disseminate it in the MS
The activities of the AA are on track, with the exception that we conducted the user survey in 2015
later than originally planned. The reasons were personal resource constraints and the decision to use the
workshop to advertise for it and use a meeting with law enforcement officers to perform a pilot of the
questionnaire.
We discussed how we could develop the yearly EMM OSINT workshop further. We concluded that the
format is in principle functioning. However, we may need to offer additional training events for more
proficient users and target the workshop on new and potential new users of our tools. (The user survey
also hints to the fact that we need to intensify the training offerings for the EMM OSINT Suite. )
The current AA already includes instruments to provide on-site trainings for MS authorities. This can
be used to provide training especially for advanced users of the tool (“Master Classes”).
The user survey gave overall good feedback for the further development of the EMM OSINT Suite
software as well as for the further dissemination. We discussed how we could improve the
dissemination of tool and better reach out to law enforcement authorities. We concluded to create a
dissemination package consisting of an improved product brochure and a download web site with video
tutorials centred on relevant use cases for law enforcement.
The ENLETS group (further background see below) has a working group on OSINT. They approached
the JRC for support on creating a community user site. We concluded that the JRC can give limited
support on the existing community site (
https://wiki.emm4u.eu ) and to discuss further support in the
framework of a follow-up AA.
Follow-up Actions
Revise 2nd interim report and submit to DG HOME
Create dissemination package for EMM OSINT Suite
Plan EMM OSINT Suite on-site trainings with MS authorities
ENLETS Disseminates Best Practices Conference (EDBP)
Background
The “European Network of Law Enforcement Technology and Services” (ENLETS) is a pan-European
network of law enforcement officials promoting the use of new technologies for policing. The group is
backed by a secretariat of the Dutch polices and funded by DG HOME. The network is made up of 9
core member states managing the different activities. For the activities, 27 member states have joined
the network. Furthermore, the network has solid working relationships with institutions such as the
European Commission, Europol and science and industry players.
We organised two hands-on workshops with the OSINT group of ENLETS in 2015 and are planning to
support the activities further with the backing of DG HOME.
Conference Observations
The purpose of the conference was to present the results of the different activities. It started with a
keynote from
(Police, NL) who is the organiser of the ENLETS network. He gave an
overview of past and planned future activities. This second keynote was a speech of
(DG HOME).
gave an overview of the EU Commissions policies in the area and the
rationale behind supporting the ENLETS.
Then the different best practise working groups gave each an overview of the activities and
achievements. The activities range from surveillance over biometrics, procurement and OSINT (in the
appendix I added the conference agenda with a complete of the activities).
In the afternoon of the first day were different workshop rounds for the different activities were the
activity leaders had more time to present the results. It turned out that the technological activities had
very good success in exchanging best practices because they could actually test tools (such as different
low-light video cameras for surveillance) where as more policy related activities such as procurement
face more hurdles to overcome because of the legal framework in the MS.
For our work in promoting OSINT for the law enforcement community, the OSINT working group
provides a good cooperation partner since they consists of LE practitioners who are the target group of
JRC’s software tools for law enforcement.
Contacts Made
I spoke briefly to
( DG HOME) about how the JRC could be useful in supporting
ENLETS going forward. We concluded to discuss this further in summer when we prepare a follow-up
AA with DG HOME regarding the OSINT activities.
Follow-up actions
Support ENLETS OSINT group with hosting content on our OSINT community site
Make an appointment with DG HOME to discuss further support within a new AA planned
for 2017
Appendix
EDBP Conference Agenda
European Network of Law Enforcement
Technology Services
ENLETS Disseminates Best Practices Closing Conference
February 2-3 Utrecht The Netherlands
Day 1: Best Practices
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome & Opening
09:15 - 09:45 Key note speaker
09:45 - 10:15 Commission speaker
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15 ENLETS Disseminates Best Practices - Workshop Pitches
• ANPR
• Surveillance
• OSINT
• SIGINT
• Stopping Vehicles
• Biometrics - Facial Recognition
• Procurement
• EMPACT
• E-mobidig
11:45 - 12:15 Grab a Card: Registration for workshop topics
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Workshop Round 1
14:30 - 15:00 Soda Break
15:30 - 16:30 Workshop Round 2
16:30 - 17:30 Forum of Heads
17:30 -17:45 Wrap up Day 1
20:00 -23:00 Dinner for invited guests (casual chic)
Day 2: Next Practices
09:00 - 09:15 Opening & Conclusion Day 1
09:15 - 11:00 EDBP and Beyond: Challenges in Law Enforcement Cooperation
(plenary discussions)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Signing agreements with partners
11:30 - 12:30 Next Practices - Workshops and Demonstrations
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Next Practices - Workshops and Demonstrations
14:30 - 15:00 Soda Break
15:30 - 16:30 Next Practices - Workshops and Demonstrations
16:30 - 17:00 Wrap up Day 2
Departures
Co-funded by the Prevention of and Fight
Against Crime Program of the European Union