Course 3 Research and Implementation

Learning Outcomes

Competences

After completing this module the learner will be able to:

• manage institutional relationships
• maintain attention to the investigation
• enrich the information and deepen specific aspects concerning the disappearance and the search phase
• provide them with data and information useful for research
• take care of listening carefully to the interlocutors and to elaborate and return to them a summary of the information collected
• analyze the interventions to be carried out based on the type of each individual case and evaluate the necessary resources
• analyze information in relation to the places to direct the next steps of the research
• identify, if necessary, additional professional resources to have specialist and specific support based on the ongoing risk analysis
• assign their collaborators tasks, times and indicate working methods
• follow and check the execution of the tasks assigned and the quality of the results
• communicate and work in groups
• interact and coordinate their work with other institutions and people
• take care of explaining and transferring the available information to the potential collaborators and sharing with them the methodology and rules of the working group, as well as maintaining a flow of information with the police force.
• structure/propose a research path on the territory
• manage relations with institutions and research groups;
• manage the consequent relationships with institutions and research teams;
• identify and use the most suitable technological system/tool for the specific case (drones, GPS, smartphone, laptop)
• publish alerts, photos and information on the disappearance in the media, the web, social networks, etc.
• use artificial intelligence platforms to compare photos of missing persons (particularly minors and children) with images taken on the web, the dark web.
• take care of ensuring, within the limits of one’s mandate, efficiency in the research phase, alerts and the balance in the cost/benefit ratio
• analyze the most frequently visited areas by the missing person using the right detection techniques
• identify useful details for finding the missing person;
• collect reports and information in a structured way for the assessment of the risk level of the “case”
• propose/activate the intervention of professionals/specialist groups;
• take care of acting in compliance with the rules and results of the research and to preserve the evidences/proofs collected.

Knowledge

• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of elements used for concerning the functions of the expert in the context of criminal prosecution or judicial proceedings
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of action limits for individuals/associations in the search of missing people
• Has comprehensive knowledge of procedure elements used for the information access, information provision of confidential nature
• Has comprehensive knowledge of elements used for the procedure of the police and judiciary to support the continuation of the investigations (avoid blockages, suspensions, etc.) and for management of the witness in the investigative and judicial process
• Has extensive knowledge of the types of investigations for the search for missing persons
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of elements and typology of scientific investigations: forensic genetics; forensic entomology; forensic medicine; computer forensics; ballistics; phonics, etc.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the possibilities and conditions of access and study of open sources
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of the types of specialist supports that can be activated, eg: missing profile, psychological autopsy
• Has extensive knowledge of forms and ways for disseminating the research
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of type of research (urban, extra-urban, judicial, etc.)
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of available technological tools (e.g. drones, GPS, satellite images).
• Has extensive knowledge of topology and orienting applied to GPS search and tracking
• Has comprehensive knowledge of tools user for training dissemination with particular reference to missing persons, in their various characteristics/classifications
• Has comprehensive knowledge of elements for investigative photography and forensic anthropology applicable to the search for missing persons.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of elements for the technical documentation and the reporting of the research activities.
• Has extensive knowledge of types of specialist supports that can be activated, eg: missing profile, psychological autopsy
• Has extensive knowledge of tools for training dissemination with particular reference to missing persons, in their various characteristics/classifications
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of types of investigations in the field for the search of missing persons.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of technological available tools (e.g. drones, GPS, satellite images)
• Has comprehensive knowledge of elements of topology and orienting applied to GPS search and tracking and for risk assessment.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of elements and typology of scientific investigations: forensic genetics; forensic entomology; forensic medicine; computer forensics; ballistics; phonics, etc.
• Has extensive knowledge of potential and operating methods of the dog units (molecular dogs) and trace preservation mode.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of different forms and ways for disseminating the research.
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of elements used for reporting the carried out searches and for investigative photography.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of types of specialist supports that can be activated, eg: missing profile, psychological autopsy
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of elements used for forensic anthropology applied to research

Skills

• Manages of the procedures related to the relationship with institutions and police forces
• Uses relevant communication techniques: institutional and interpersonal
• Uses relevant involvement and persuasion techniques
• Uses relevant techniques for drafting information summaries
• Uses relevant techniques for investigation planning
• Uses relevant techniques for analyzing the places where the person disappeared
• Manages the access procedures to acquire information and open sources
• Organizes the method of selecting specialist supports (e.g. dog units)
• Uses relevant techniques for selecting the necessary scientific investigations
• Uses relevant research techniques and techniques for the mobilization of specialist supports
• Manages organizational and institutional relationships
• Uses relevant techniques for formalizing alert-forms concerning missing persons
• Manages relations with media and website managers
• Uses relevant teamwork techniques
• Uses relevant techniques of activation and coordination of socialist supports
• Uses relevant techniques; location analysis, selecting the necessary investigations, analysing information and survey carried out, drafting reports and using forms and/or formats, assess the risk determined by the disappearance.
• Manages the access procedures to information and open sources.
• Uses relevant and updated methods of selecting specialist supports (e.g. dog units) and classification, conservation and dissemination of traces, finds, etc.
• Uses relevant research team coordination techniques