Course 4. Data Collection and analysis

Learning Outcomes

Competences

After completing this module, the learner will be able to:

• Collect, select, analyze, and manage missing person´s personal, family, social and environmental information in order to prepare and deliver a valid risk assessment.
• Undertake a comprehensive analysis of all the constituent elements of the disappearance, aggregate, summarize and manage the internal and external flow of information, ensuring the respective updating.
• Obtain, enrich and summarize information in order to give a useful and competent collaboration to the justice system.
• Use the European standards to carry out an accurate analysis, to assign and/or contribute to determine the disappearance classification and the level of risk ( low, medium, high, very high) and also to draw a strategy to cooperate with the system of justice, including the managing of public alert.

Knowledge

• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of the assumptions of disappearance: strategy, environment, system of relationships.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the constitutive elements of the disappearance: personal characteristics, the context of work and life, the warning system.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the different reasons for the disappearance and the type of disappearance: voluntary, involuntary, and forced one.
• Is able to choose the elements for a team of experts.
• Has comprehensive and update knowledge about Missing profile elements.
• Has extensive knowledge about the systems of integration and environmental interaction in situations of missing persons.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of basic psychology elements.
• Has deep knowledge of the psychological autopsy elements.
• Has extensive and relevant knowledge of the path and tools of a psychological investigation.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the type of information sources available in the first phase and in progress.
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge about the rules, procedures, and limits for the access of the information on missing persons cases
• Has wide knowledge of the typology of different specialties and professionals to be activated in cases of missing people.
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge about the action limits of individuals/associations in the search of missing people
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the procedure elements for the information access.
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge about the national and international regulatory framework of reference
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of the operational protocols, opportunities and constraints imposed by national legislation.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the reference regulatory system for the classification of information concerning missing persons.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the national classification standard for missing persons.
• Is able to work with European or other international classification standard for missing persons.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of different criteria and methodologies to assign the classification to the specific case.
• Has comprehensive and updated knowledge of the available databases of missing people.
• Is able to work with Information evaluation criteria in relation to the classification of the disappearance.
• Is able to work with Information evaluation criteria in the operational context of the research phase.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of the elements for the definition of the European and international regulatory context regarding the disappearance of minors, often unaccompanied.

Skills

• Manage and select the initial information useful for the profile of the missing person.
• Build an initial assessment of the type of disappearance (voluntary, involuntary, forced).
• Use relevant and updated techniques for the Team composition.
• Know how to investigate, do research and perform inspection techniques.
• Be widely aware of the techniques for the Analysis of the contexts and places.
• Use relevant non-invasive techniques to consult electronic devices.
• Know how to manage findings, documents, images and electronic devices: identification, custody, consultation, manipulation.
• Have specialized and practical knowledge about the techniques of social consultation, chats, web navigation paths and other communication tools.
• Manage the collection of information useful to draw the profile of a missing person.
• Use the adequate structure or forms to organize the collected information.
• Context analysis techniques.
• Use teamwork techniques wisely.
• Use relevant and updated techniques and procedures to consult databases and other official and non-official sources of information.
• Use relevant techniques for the aggregation and the synthesis of the acquired information.
• Use the best and most adequate and documentary-based methods for the identification and for the involvement of specialist professionals who are useful for the research.
• Use and apply relevant techniques of interpersonal communication.
• Manages the procedures related to the relationship with institutions and police forces.
• Manage regulatory elements concerning the functions of the expert in the context of criminal prosecution or judicial proceedings.
• Use relevant techniques for drafting information summaries.
• Select techniques and synthesize the collected information.
• Select techniques to identify further fields of investigation.
• Use relevant techniques for the identification of the reasons behind the disappearance.
• Coordinate the specialist competences to determine the reasons of the disappearance.
• Promote and demonstrate a competent application of the good practices recommended at European and international level for the search for missing children.