scholarly journals From Identification to Intelligence: An Assessment of the Suitability of Forensic DNA Phenotyping Service Providers for Use in Australian Law Enforcement Casework

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Atwood ◽  
Jennifer Raymond ◽  
Alison Sears ◽  
Michael Bell ◽  
Runa Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Forensic Dna ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Testing Cost ◽  
Biogeographical Ancestry ◽  
Forensic Dna Phenotyping

Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) is an established but evolving field of DNA testing. It provides intelligence regarding the appearance (externally visible characteristics), biogeographical ancestry and age of an unknown donor and, although not necessarily a requirement for its casework application, has been previously used as a method of last resort in New South Wales (NSW) Police Force investigations. FDP can further assist law enforcement agencies by re-prioritising an existing pool of suspects or generating a new pool of suspects. In recent years, this capability has become ubiquitous with a wide range of service providers offering their expertise to law enforcement and the public. With the increase in the number of providers offering FDP and its potential to direct and target law enforcement resources, a thorough assessment of the applicability of these services was undertaken. Six service providers of FDP were assessed for suitability for NSW Police Force casework based on prediction accuracy, clarity of reporting, limitations of testing, cost and turnaround times. From these assessment criteria, a service provider for the prediction of biogeographical ancestry, hair and eye colour was deemed suitable for use in NSW Police Force casework. Importantly, the study highlighted the need for standardisation of terminology and reporting in this evolving field, and the requirement for interpretation by biologists with specialist expertise to translate the scientific data to intelligence for police investigators.

Social efficiency of internal affairs bodies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egor Bunov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Social Effectiveness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Internal Affairs

The monograph contains a theoretical analysis of the social effectiveness of the internal affairs bodies as the degree of satisfaction of the population with the quality of law enforcement activities to protect their interests, rights and freedoms. The results of a multidimensional analysis of empirical studies of the influence of macro - and microsocial factors on the effectiveness of interaction between the population and law enforcement agencies are presented. The article substantiates the criteria for social assessment of the activities of the internal affairs bodies, the use of which allows for practical adjustment of the forms and methods of the management system. For a wide range of readers interested in the practice of applying legal measures of law enforcement.

scholarly journals Watching the watchers: Taskforce Argos and the evidentiary issues involved with infiltrating Dark Web child exploitation networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bleakley
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Child Exploitation ◽  
Global Law ◽  
Dark Web

As the kind of technology used by offenders advances, it has become increasingly necessary for global law enforcement agencies to adopt proactive strategies in order to effectively combat the threat posed by the organisation of child exploitation networks on the Dark Web. In spite of concerns regarding the collection of evidence, Queensland Police’s Taskforce Argos has cultivated a reputation for success in the covert infiltration of online forums dedicated to child exploitation material, due largely to the relatively loose restrictions placed on it, which allow officers to commit a wide range of criminal acts whilst conducting controlled undercover operations.

scholarly journals The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping

2020 ◽  
pp. 1357034X2091916
Author(s):  
Rafaela Granja ◽  
Helena Machado ◽  
Filipa Queirós
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Skin Colour ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Genetic Technology ◽  
Forensic Dna ◽  
Data Reliability ◽  
The Third ◽  
Criminal Suspect ◽  
Biogeographical Ancestry ◽  
Forensic Dna Phenotyping

Forensic DNA phenotyping is a genetic technology that might be used in criminal investigations. Based on DNA samples of the human body found at crime scenes, it allows to infer externally visible characteristics (such as eye, hair and skin colour) and continental-based biogeographical ancestry. By indicating the probable visible appearance of a criminal suspect, forensic DNA phenotyping allows to narrow down the focus of a criminal investigation. In this article, drawing on interviews with forensic geneticists, we explore how their narratives translate contemporary focus on criminal molecularized bodies. We propose the concept of (de)materialization to approach three aspects of the forensic geneticists’ views. The first regards considering bodies as mutable entities. The second relates to socially contingent meanings attributed to bodies. The third regards to controversies surrounding data reliability. By reflecting upon the (de)materialization of criminal bodies, forensic geneticists juxtapose the defence and unsettling of forensic DNA phenotyping claims.

scholarly journals Secret Searches: The SCA's Standing Conundrum

2019 ◽  
pp. 1697
Author(s):  
Aviv Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Fourth Amendment ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Due Process ◽  
The Individual

The Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) arms federal law enforcement agencies with the ability to use a special type of warrant to access users’ electronically stored communications. In some circumstances, SCA warrants can require service providers to bundle and produce a user’s electronically stored communications without ever disclosing the existence of the warrant to the individual user until charges are brought. Users that are charged will ultimately receive notice of the search after the fact through their legal proceedings. Users that are never charged, however, may never know that their communications were obtained and searched. This practice effectively makes the provisions of the SCA that allow for nondisclosure unreviewable by the judiciary. Users that were searched but not charged have standing to challenge the scope of these warrants, but receive no notice that the search occurred. Service providers receive notice but have no standing on behalf of their users under the Fourth Amendment. This Note argues that the nondisclosure orders, therefore, create a procedural due process violation in addition to a Fourth Amendment violation. Users may have their privacy and property interests infringed without a meaningful opportunity to be heard. Under a due process theory, as opposed to a Fourth Amendment theory, this practice can finally be judicially reviewed.

scholarly journals Legal status of a law enforcement official of Mongolia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-180
Author(s):  
Nyamsuren Erdenebulgan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Enforcement Official ◽  
Legal Situation ◽  
Special Service ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Definition Of

The author highlights the issues related to the essence and implementation of the legal status of a law enforcement official. These issues are the focus of attention of scientists (primarily specialists in administrative law), legislators, civil society, as well as of the employees themselves. The terms «legal status» and «legal situation» are analysed in details. The issues related to the definition of the legal status of a law enforcement official of Mongolia are considered. The author presents a wide range of opinions of lawyers on the content of the concept of «legal status of a law enforcement official», gives various classifications of the term of legal status, and presents his vision of this problem and its solution with regard to law enforcement agencies of Mongolia. The author agrees with the point of view of those specialists who point out that the specificity of the legal status of a law enforcement official, his rights and duties, requires adopting other components, such as responsibility, which are quite justified. The author also underlines that there is almost no mention of the key-concept «a law enforcement official» in Mongolian legislation. This led to a conclusion that this concept should be legalized before being considered in details. The research also briefly discusses the main results of the extensive work on reforming police in 2011–2015. The author notes that the absolute following the example of Western countries was not appropriate. Thus, the author criticizes some aspects of the transition of the police from a special service to a public one, for example, the procedure for assigning special ranks by positions held, which led to an outflow of specialists from the law enforcement sphere to other areas. The author concludes that legally fixed features characterizing the legal status of a law enforcement official are far from exhaustive and require further rethinking, research, improvement in law-making and law enforcement.

scholarly journals Problems of small business in Ukraine and ways for their overcoming

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
A. Chushak-Holoborodko ◽  
P. Horyslavets ◽  
O. Poburko ◽  
S. Shramko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Business Entities

The essence of small business and the criteria for enrollment of business entities to small enterprises and micro-enterprises, both according to the approach of domestic legislation and European standards are investigated in this paper The place of small business in the state economy and its role in its development is studied. Factors that shape the environment for small business in Ukraine and hinder its effective functioning are formulated. In particular, the legal capacity of small businesses and the biased attitude of law enforcement agencies towards small businesses permanently put pressure on small businesses and complicate the process of their activities. A wide range of inhibitory factors and factors faced by small business in Ukraine are analyzed and studied. The key areas that are most urgently in need of reform are identified, and their detailed and in-depth analysis is carried out. As the result, a list of small business problems in Ukraine is formed and grouped. Obstacles on the part of the tax system include refusal to register tax invoices for unknown reasons, delays in unblocking tax invoices and registration of invoices by tax authorities, as well as unfounded grounds on which taxpayers are included in risky and lack of clear instructions for exclusion from the list of risky. On the part of law enforcement agencies – unfounded criminal proceedings, slowing down the process of returning business entities to normal operation. On the part of labor relations are the complexity and inflexibility of the interaction between employee and employer and the procedure for dismissal of employees; conducting by the employer of documentary administration of labor in paper form; significant dispersion of legal regulation of labor inspections. In terms of availability of funding are non-compliance with the requirements of bank lending and lack of information about international programs, grants and donor funding with the participation of European organizations, as well as government programs to support business. Based on the outlined problems, a number of ways to overcome them, which will bring small business in Ukraine to a new level and strengthen the economic position of the state are formed.

scholarly journals Improvement of the adhesive strength of adhesion bonds of textile products for the increasement of the efficiency of criminalistic support of law enforcement activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Maryna Yatsenko ◽  
Sergey Bereznenko ◽  
Maria Pawlova ◽  
Olena Nenia ◽  
Nataliia Vashchuk
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Chemical Modification ◽  
Adhesive Strength ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
Garment Industry ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Textile Materials ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strength Of Adhesion

Analysis of methods of chemical and physical modification and activation in the manufacture of garments made of polymeric materials is carried out. The analysis studied a wide range of possibilities for the use of nanotechnology in the garment industry and can serve as a theoretical basis for the manufacture of garments made of polymeric materials of various purposes, in particular for military and law enforcement agencies. The technology of rendering shape-resistant textiles, including clothing made of genuine leather, by use of the method of chemical modification and activation of its surface, which makes it possible to use more effectively various textile materials, in particular, leather at the cutting stage, is presented.

scholarly journals Forensic DNA Databases: International Experience and the Possibility of its Application in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-183
Author(s):  
Andrei G. Semikhodskii ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Genomic Information ◽  
Forensic Dna ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Dna Databases ◽  
The Russian Federation

Introduction. The article highlights a number of topical issues involving the federal database of genomic information of the Russian Federation. Despite the fact that the expert application of fo- rensic DNA analysis began in the late 80s/early 90s of the twentieth century, the legal basis for the use of DNA for crime investigation does not meet the requirements of today. Theoretical Basis. Methods. The study is based on a comparative analysis of the legal framework of forensic genetic databases of foreign countries, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Russian Federation. Results. Based on the experience of countries where forensic DNA databases have been creat- ed and are effectively used, the general legislative principles of organizing such databases are discussed. Crimes warranting genetic registration and the procedural category of persons from whom DNA samples should be taken for the database purposes are considered as well as the length of the retention period and criteria for deleting genetic information. The issues of quali- ty control and ethical use of genetic information for solving crimes are discussed separately. In conclusion, the need for a legislative initiative that will allow law enforcement agencies to have a genomic information database as an effective tool for combating crime is proposed. Discussion and Conclusion. The paper emphasises a need for legislative initiatives that would allow law enforcement agencies to have a genomic database as an effective tool for combating crime.

scholarly journals Features of operation regulation with virtual assets for mining activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Tetiana DMYTRENKO ◽  
◽  
Valeriya VOLKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Mining Activities ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Criminal Intent ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article deals with the peculiarities of suspicious transactions in financial markets related to the use of cryptocurrencies, it also studies current issues regarding the classification of virtual assets. The features of countering suspicious transactions in financial markets associated with the use of cryptocurrency are highlighted. Topical issues of taxonomy of virtual assets and risk assessment of service providers' activities in assessing the risk of operations with virtual assets related to their use in legalization operations are investigated. The concepts of regulation of virtual assets are considered. The concept of mining, the problem of the relationship of varieties of mining activity to the classification of certain types of activity, its legalization are defined, and recommendations for the classification of mining activities are given. The relationship between miners, validators and virtual asset providers (VASP) in the event of a cyberattack or in the presence of certain rights to the network has been analyzed, which leads to the classification of this type of activity as risky regarding the use of cryptocurrencies with criminal intent. It is also underlined the need to introduce a risk-based approach to countering money laundering and terrorist financing (AML / CFT) by national state supervisory and law enforcement agencies, enterprises involved in the virtual asset market, preventing threats and developing a legislative framework for regulation the crypto market and interaction on these issues at the international level.

scholarly journals Forensic Examinations in Fraud Cases in the Field of Auto Insurance

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
R. N. Borovskikh
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Automobile Insurance ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Auto Insurance ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Special Knowledge

The proposed article considers the possibilities of various types of expert research on criminal cases of fraud in the field of automobile insurance (CTP, CASCO). On the example of illustrative cases from the published judicial practice in criminal cases, the features of the appointment of certain types of forensic examinations, their research potential are demonstrated. Clearly shows the wide the possibility of applying special knowledge to improve the effectiveness of detecting and investigating insurance fraud committed by staging and falsifying the circumstances of road accidents. The prospects for the use of atypical forensic examinations in criminal cases of relevant crimes are shown. The article is recommended not only to employees of investigative departments of law enforcement agencies, judges and experts, but also to a wide range of readers interested in countering fraud and other crimes committed in the insurance industry.

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