Law Enforcement

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Early Warning Alert System: Forensic Tools for New Psychoactive Substances

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Early Warning Advisory (EWA) on new psychoactive substances (NPS) was launched in June 2013 as a response to the emergence of NPS at the global level. The EWA aims to monitor, analyze, and report trends on NPS as a basis for effective evidence-based policy responses. It also serves as a repository for information/data on these substances and a platform for providing technical assistance, tools, and relevant analytical information for national drug testing and toxicology laboratories in member states.

Take a No-cost Training Course on Using Social Media for Law Enforcement Investigations

November 26, 2019

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Washington, D.C.

Exploitation and Monitoring of Social Media for Law Enforcement Training Course

This innovative course provides criminal investigators, state and local officers, intel analysts, diversion investigators, and other investigators involved in investigations using open source technology a fast-paced, hands-on look at social media investigative tools geared for beginner to intermediate-level users.

The course includes tools for search efficiency, operations security, and evaluating social media websites and microblogs, as well as tools for handling digital images.

Students will be able to:

Visit the Upgraded AMBER Alert Website

November 25, 2019

The Office of Justice Programs recently launched an upgraded America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert Website. It features a description of the AMBER Alert in Indian Country Initiative, which was developed to assist tribal communities in integrating their AMBER alert systems with state and regional systems. The updated site also offers new publications, statistics, points of contact, and other valuable resources.

Read the Newly Released Problem-Oriented Policing Guide on Addressing Crime Hot Spots

November 21, 2019

The Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) initiative released a problem-oriented policing (POP) guide titled “Understanding and Responding to Crime and Disorder Hot Spots.” SPI collaborated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at Arizona University with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to develop this guide.

The guide discusses the following:

• Defining what crime hot spots are and discussing why they are important.

Attend a Webinar on Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations During Prosecution

November 21, 2019

Join the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) for their webinar “Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations” on December 4 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will focus on a topical and complex subject that is likely at the forefront of many prosecutors’ minds.

Capital Litigation Improvement Project Series: Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations

“Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations” focuses on a topical and complex subject that is likely at the forefront of many prosecutors’ minds. In this presentation, District Attorney George Brauchler, widely known as the prosecutor of James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado gunman, will home in on the issues district attorneys face while prosecuting mass shootings cases. He will provide anecdotal insights and lessons learned along the way.

CI130 Basic Cyber Investigations: Cellular Records Analysis (Jan. 2020, California)

This course is for officers, investigators, and analysts who encounter cell phone evidence that includes information external to the phone. Class concepts include instruction on how to request, read, and analyze call detail records from cellular providers, and how to plot cellular site locations to determine the approximate position of a suspect during a given period. No special hardware or software is required. However, this course focuses heavily on analysis; as such, a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel is highly recommended. Students are provided with a free copy of the National White Collar Crime Center's (NW3C) PerpHound tool, which assists in the plotting of call detail record locations.

CI102 Basic Cyber Investigations: Dark Web & Open Source Intelligence (Jan. 2020, California)

This course provides expert guidance in the skills law enforcement officers need to conduct successful online investigations. Topics include IP addresses and domains, an overview of currently popular social media platforms, best practices for building an undercover profile, foundational knowledge related to the dark web, and the use of the dark web as an investigative tool. Instructors demonstrate both open source and commercially available investigative tools for social engineering, information gathering, and artifacts related to social media, as well as automated utilities to capture information and crawl websites.

FC105 Financial Records Examination and Analysis (Feb. 2020, Oregon)

This course covers the acquisition, examination, and analysis of many types of financial records, including bank statements and checks, wire transfer records, and business records. Topics include recognizing and investigating common indicators of fraud, using spreadsheets to facilitate analysis and pattern recognition, and financial profiling. There is a strong focus on presenting financial evidence in multiple modalities: spreadsheet data outputs, graphic representations, and written/oral presentations.

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