Service: SPIRIT predictive policing - privacy-preserving intelligence analysis for resolving identities

Responsible organisation: Hellenic Police (Governmental)

Hellenic Police and four other law enforcement authorities (i.e. the West Midlands Police (UK), the Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley (UK), the Serbian Ministry of Interior (RS), and the Police Academy in Szcytno (PL)) are taking part in a project called SPIRIT (“Scalable privacy-preserving intelligence analysis for resolving identities”). The information available on the project’s web- site is very limited, even though the project has been up and running since August 2018. Nevertheless, it is evident from the website that the project aims to use tools such as face extraction and matching, to correlate information from social media data, and to continuously initiate complex associative searches across all sources relevant to criminal investigation. A successful freedom of information request revealed that trial runs will be organized, including in Greece, involving end-users and practitioners, such as law enforcement agencies, and other stakeholders. The Hellenic Police (Border Unit) is involved in trials that run between January and August 2020, while reports of trial runs and tests are expected in the form of deliverables in April 2020 and January 2021. Two of the Greek stakeholders in SPIRIT’s consortium are the private companies Singular Logic and Nydor System Technologies. The project is due to end in July 2021.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
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Start/end date 2018 - 2020.0
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