Collaboration
The overall aim of the project is to develop a socio-technical system for Citizen Forensics that will enrich and deepen collaboration between citizens and the police, through the exchange of data gathered using a variety of digital technologies, to support investigation of crimes and enhance public safety. The project will support a new engagement between authorities (such as the police) and communities of citizens in order to better investigate (and in the long term reduce) potential or actual threats to citizen security, safety, and privacy.
Adaptive Architecture
We will investigate the role of adaptive technologies in the context of police investigations and public safety for enhancing the role of the “digital citizen” through the creation of “virtual civic spaces” for citizen-police collaboration. We will use our findings to build an adaptive software architecture that supports the contextual information flows required to deliver the community-police collaborations envisaged for Citizen Forensics, preserving key properties such as privacy and forensic-soundness.
Multi-disciplinary
We will draw on expertise in computing, policing, psychology and organisational theory to deliver on these objectives working together with our partners who represent both policing organisations and communities, as well as the broader community of researchers, policy makers and software developers. This will enable the co-creation of research challenges and their solutions.