According to official figures released by the Mexican government this week, helicopters belonging to that nation’s police and military have been subjected to a minimum of 28 gunfire attacks in the five years since the government launched its campaign against drug cartels. The attacks demonstrate the increasing firepower of Mexican drug gangs, but may [...]
The U.S. Border Patrol is preparing to implement tougher punishments on undocumented immigrants entering the United States from Mexico, to change the revolving door policy that has been in place for years. Instead of simply being sent back across the border to try again, immigrants captured on the U.S. side will now face harsher consequences for [...]
It’s not just in the airport anymore. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is working in collaboration with the United States Department of Defense to control illegal firearms by deploying technology to detect concealed weapons carried by people walking down the street. Using infrared rays, the system scans a “form of radiation emitted from [...]
Worsening drug and organized-crime violence in Central America has forced the Peace Corps to pull out of Honduras and halt the flow of new volunteers to Guatemala and El Salvador, that organization has announced. Last month Peace Corps officials reviewed worsening conditions and decided to withdraw all 158 volunteers from Honduras in January and suspend training for 29 recruits. [...]
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
Under a new pilot program, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the entry process for air cargo is designed to reduce the number of customs holds that delay air cargo and help give shippers a better idea of when they can take possession of their goods Already starting in December, importers or brokers of air [...]
Soldiers from the Mexican Army and Marines yesterday detained 110 police officers from three towns in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, for presumed affiliations with organized crime. Arrested officers from the municipalities of Apodaca, Pesqueria and Mina were taken to the local headquarters for the federal Agency for State Investigations. According to an [...]
On the occasion of the EISIC (September 12-14,2011) held in Athens, we interviewed the Program Chair of the event Dr. Nasrullah Memon, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and member of the Steering Committee of the European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference EISIC on Counterterrorism and Criminology. The event was organized jointly with The [...]
Anwar al Alwaki the islamist cleric. This radical Islamic preacher — dubbed America’s new terrorist No. 1 — has been tied to the Fort Hood shooter, the Underwear Bomber,and now the Times Square plot Current U.S. Obama Administration policy is to attack only “high-value individuals” in Pakistan and Afganistan, besides Yemen and Somalia. But the [...]
This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a) Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas in Thessaloniki, Greece b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]
Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.
EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats
Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.
Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.
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