Oct 06 - RGP Signs MoU Establishing Centre Of Excellence For Research And Education In Cybercrime
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that formally establishes the “Small Islands Network Centre of Excellence for Research and Education in Cybercrime” (SINCERE Network), and confirms the nature of future cooperation on cybercrime between its signatories, was signed at a meeting of the Chief Police Officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police, Guernsey Police, States of Jersey Police and the Isle of Man Constabulary, chaired by Commissioner of Police Eddie Yome at Gibraltar House in London recently.
The memorandum forms part of the European Union’s “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime“(SENTER) project, funded by the European Commission under the Internal Security Fund- Police 2014-2020 (ISFP). Amongst the main project’s aims are the creation of a single point of reference for EU national Cybercrime Centres of Excellence (CoE) and the further development of these national centres into a well-defined and well-functioning community.
SINCERE’s principal activity will be to coordinate members’ activities in the development of their capabilities to deal with cybercrime, cyber-security and electronic evidence, and to improve national competence in these fields. The network will identify and commission scientific and educational research in seeking to ensure the safety of each of the communities represented by the network’s members. It will also aim to achieve coordinated and effective cooperation with the business and academic communities in the field of cybercrime prevention and investigation.
The following areas are some of the SINCERE cooperation strands:
- Strengthening the competences of law enforcement officers, including, but not limited to the development of common inter- institutional competences in the investigation related areas of digital evidence forensics and cybercrime
- Improvement and development of cooperation with regard to investigations related to areas of digital evidence forensics and cybercrime
- Research and experimental developments to address the challenges arising during criminal investigations in cyberspace, and the gathering of forensic evidence.
- Establishment and development of procedural and methodological methods applicable in the field of digital evidence and cybercrime; updating existing and creating new training programmes, preparing teachers and lecturers, creating applicable standards, assessments and a competence certification system
- Developing a collaboration model with academia, industry and participants in the criminal justice arena, to create a sustainable Centre of Excellence in cybercrime and digital evidence.
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