Nikolaos Koutras

ADDITESS LTD

Community Policing (CP) is gaining popularity with police and governments as well as citizens, aiming to improve crime prevention and safety. Multiple ICT tools for CP have emerged to ease citizens’ engagement with CP activities. Most of them are, however, tailor-made to the specific needs of their direct users in a city or country or provide fragm...

We present the IMPRESS software system; a tool that can support the first responders in cases of disaster management and resources allocation and the optimisation of response to large-scale emergencies. This is a multi-level architecture system that has desktop and mobile interfaces, supporting the decision makers with different modules. Every modu...

The community era of policing emphasizes the crime control function through a decentralized organization design. The diversification and evolution of crime made evident the value of citizen contribution towards its combating. The introduction of the directives of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection for Police and Criminal...

The community era of policing emphasizes the crime control function of policing through a decentralized organization design. The diversification and evolution of crime made evident the value of citizen contribution towards its combating. As a result, more and more EU countries focus on community policing for volume crime through neighbourhood watch...

The constant technological evolution in Computer Vision enabled the development of new techniques which in conjunction with the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) may extract high quality photogrammetric products for several applications. Dense Image Matching (DIM) is a Computer Vision technique that can generate a dense 3D point cloud of an ar...

This chapter presents the UINFC2 “Engaging Users in preventing and fighting Cybercrime” software platform, showcasing how software tools designed to detect, collect, analyse, categorise and correlate information that is publically available online, can be used to enable and enhance the reporting, detection and removal capabilities of law enforcemen...

Digital forensic examination is proven to be a time consuming task that relies heavily on the qualities and extensive expertise of the Digital Forensic Examiner (DFE). Nowadays, due to the rapid increase on the volume of digital evidence, the skills of the DFE are not sufficient. As a result, multiple Digital Forensic Tools (DFTs) have been develop...

Audio covers a 360° area day and night, at a low cost, and surpasses the limitation of the viewing of conventional surveillance cameras. The lack of audio in surveillance systems impacts significantly the ability of security personnel to act timely, if at all, in cases of emergency. In this paper we present an ethical audio surveillance system deve...