It is for me a great honor having the
possibility to say welcome to all of you, whose taking part to this
conference gives special importance to this meeting, even in place
of the general commander and the chief of mobile and specialized
unites. This seminar, whose subject is "Tools, procedures,
operational standards and academic psychological research in the
Internet investigation field with a special focus on child
pornography", has been organized by RACIS with financial support
from the AGIS Programme of the European Commission - Directorate
General Justice, Freedom and Security.
A special thanks to the Magistracy, to the important teachers, the
speakers, the colleagues and all the appreciated guests who with
their presence attest consideration, vicinity and affection for
this Unit and the whole Arm.
I wish particularly greetings to the representatives of the 14
countries that have accepted our invitation and with whom, for two
days, we will have, I am sure, a profitable exchange of ideas and
experiences.
Since already many years, Carabinieri, in the within of
consolidated international cooperation of Police, has undertaken
several initiatives consisting in the organization of seminars and
conventions devoted to the exchange of experiences and the
individuation of "best practices" concerning the contrast to the
organized crime. This has concurred to diffusion and to alignment
of the qualitative standards reached from the Institution, in the
various fields of specialization, effectively contributing to the
evolution of the European norm.
Within such initiatives, the present international seminar is
focused on a field of wide importance as the "Internet crime" and
the "Internet investigation". In particular, here, we consider the
child-pornography that has been strongly facilitated from the
availability of the digital instruments of communication. The Arm
of Carabinieri, that takes care of computer crime through a special
section in the RIS of Rome, has proposed, with the present
conference, to contribute, at European Union's level and, as
possible, also outside from the European limits:
- to the comparison of the
technical-scientific level among the specialized investigating
units of participant Countries' police enforcements, operating and
helping to reach a good level in instruments and methods of
technical surveying on Internet;
- to diffuse in capillary way among the Police forces and the
Judiciary police operators of whichever level, a renewed culture of
the scientific investigation's techniques and potentiality;
- to facilitate the international communications that turn out as
a fundamental instrument to coordinate the investigations in the
child-pornographic field on Internet, being it a transnational
phenomenon;
- to stimulate the processes, already started in the field, of
standardization of methods and tools;
- to approach the world of the university and psychological
research to the investigators, concurring the police enforcements
to have valid methodological indications and the university to
carry out on real investigative cases.
All these initiatives are framed in the programs that, in recent
years, important international Organizations like the High Tech
Crime Group of the G8, the IOCE (International Organization on
Evidence Computer), the E.N.F.S.I. (European Network of Forensic
Science Institutes), the Interpol, the Europol, etc are carrying
ahead believing that the high technology systems and, first of all,
Internet, are by now a fundamental instrument of commercial
exchange of illegal material and of coordination for wide criminal
actions.
This seminary, in which we have the presence of illustrious members
of organizations and police, of university teacher and exponents of
associations dealing with High Tech Crime and the
child-pornography, has as a practical aim to write down a final
document, influencing law and regulations at European level.
I am sure that we will reach our aim and, at the end of this
meeting, we will enhance our knowledge and find new ideas. At the
moment I thank you all for your attention and I wish you all a good
work.
Comandante del Ra.C.I.S., Gen.B. Nicola
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