Professional training of law enforcement services to combat cybercrime Erasmus Project

Project Title

Professional training of law enforcement services to combat cybercrime

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Assurance

Project Summary

Computers, digital devices and the Internet play an increasingly important role in performing illegal activities or significantly support it through the opportunities they offer such as: illegal online trafficking, pirated software, frauds (online auctions, ads, job offers, media services) and crimes related to electronic payment instruments. It has been observed that the number of crimes based on new information technologies is constantly increasing.

Every single day, about one million people become victims of various forms of cybercrime with annual losses estimated at around 290 billion euro. In order to combat cybercrime efficiently, it is important to apply an appropriate approach to digital evidence and the way it is secured. The current procedure often results in the lack of the possibility of further analysis of the data or extends its time in a significant way. In order to meet the challenges of continuous and dynamic technological development as well as consequently growing importance of electronic evidence in criminal cases it is necessary to completely change the current attitude towards the way it is secured at the scene of crime.

Hence the idea of that project which the main goal is to exchange knowledge and experiences on mechanisms and ways of combating cybercrime in EU Member States as well as the ways of securing data with Live Forensic method and the analysis of memory systems. The project is addressed to 24 participants from 6 organizational units from the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office on the central and regional level in 5 partner countries (Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany) dealing with the fight against cybercrime in the forensic and procedural sense.

Planned activities include:

– setting up structures for effective project management, establishing principles of cooperation in partnerships and project timetables (international meetings);

– participation / conducting thematic trainings in the field of education and training;

– work on achieving the results;

– conducting promotional and dissemination activities;

– monitoring and evaluating activities.

Mobility related to trainings is aimed at acquiring new knowledge and practical skills and collecting the appropriate material to develop the results of the project. Each partner country has prepared issues (advanced) that reflects its level and scope of engagement in the subject and contributes to European added value.

A1 (Germany): 4-day theoretical training and case study on combating cybercrime related to the use of Bitcoin – the digital currency; International criminal information exchange on cybercrime based on their own experience.

A2 (Lithuania): 5-day theoretical and practical training on combating sexual exploitation of children, using hash analysis; malware analysis.

A3 (Hungary): 5-day theoretical training presenting the prosecutor’s point of view on issues covered by the remaining activities, i.e. securing and analyzing digital evidence, cooperation with Internet and telecom service providers, digital currency in criminal proceedings, child pornography; combating crime against intellectual property.

A4 (Bulgaria): log analysis coming from secured evidence; identity stealing, botnet and big SPAM campaigns;

A5 (Poland): 5-day theoretical and practical training, webinars in the area of Live Forensic analysis and protection of electronic evidence and using the chip-off method; Aspects of international exchange of information and cooperation with European law enforcement agencies.

The methodology used for the training sessions: active participation, learning from good practice, creative thinking and action, self-presentation and reflection, observation of model activities, situational scenarios, group work, discussions, questionnaires.

All of the aforementioned activities will be aimed at achieving specific results, which will be:

– framework programs used for cascading and other specialist trainings concerning the fight against cybercrime;

– a report containing recommendations and algorithms for dealing with digital evidence protection;

– a database of experts and good practices.

The project will affect not only the target group but will be relevant to all police officers and prosecutors staff on the topic described above. Their present practices and procedures which have set their own knowledge and life experience will be reviewed, updated and supplemented with new, universal and responsive approaches, tools and educational training. In addition, the results of the project will be an integral part of the methodology developed by the central forensics labs which puts special emphasis on fugitive traces and designs tools to support the work of experts. Materials will be also available to EU police officers through the European Police College CEPOL, Europol and Eurojust.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125984,19 Eur

Project Coordinator

Komenda Wojewodzka Policji w Lodzi & Country: PL

Project Partners

• LIETUVOS KRIMINALINES POLICIJOS BIURAS
• GLAVNA DIREKTSIA BORBA S ORGANIZIRANATA PRESTUPNOST
• KOMENDA WOJEWODZKA POLICJI W OLSZTYNIE
• Polizeipräsidium des Landes Brandenburg
• Legfobb Ugyeszseg (Office of the Prosecutor General of Hungary)