Our Research

Our vision is to deliver excellence in applied research for policing and security. Our approach blends evidence-based research, policy and practice with the development of tangible solutions that have a real-world impact on the security domain.

Books

International Security Management: New Solutions to Complexity

2020

Jacobs, G., Suojanen, I., Horton, K. E., & Bayerl, P. S. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Policing in the Era of AI and Smart Societies

2020

Jahankhani, H., Akhgar, B., Cochrane, P., & Dastbaz, M. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Social media strategy in policing: From cultural intelligence to community policing

2019

Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S, & Leventakis, G. (Eds.)

Springer

Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies

2019

Akhgar, B. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Journal Articles

Hancock, P., Van Hardeveld, G., Jakubcek, J., Akhgar, B., Davey, S., Amann, P (2024). Design of Cryptopol: A serious game for teaching cryptocurrency tracing techniques to Law Enforcement. ACM Games: Research and Practice, Volume 2, Issue 4, Article 32, 14 pages.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces. Policing and Society, 33 (7), 861-876.
O’Neill, M., Van Der Giessen, M., Bayerl, P. S., Hail, Y., Aston, E. and Houtsonen, J. (2023). Conditions, Actions and Purposes (CAP): A dynamic model for community policing in Europe. Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 17.
Butot, V., Jacobs, G., Bayerl, P. S., Amador, J. and Nabipour, P. (2023). Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 21 (1), 61-82.
Bayerl, P., Shahid, S., & Moitroux, P. (2023). Why bystanders (don’t) post about violence: Contextualizing individual versus socialized rationales of observers’ publication intentions. Social Media and Society..
Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S., Mounier, G., Linden, R. and Waites, B. (2022). AP4AI: accountability principles for artificial intelligence in the internal security domain. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22 (6).
Bayerl, P., Akhgar, B., Raven, A., Gibson, H., & Day, T. (2022). Future Challenges and Requirements for Open Source Intelligence in Law Enforcement Investigations: Results From a Horizon Scanning Exercise. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22, 21-38.
Bayerl, P. S., & Jacobs, G. (2022). Who is responsible for customers’ privacy? Effects of first versus third party handling of privacy contracts on continuance intentions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, 122039.

Conference Articles

Orphanides, C., Akhgar, B., & Bayerl, P. S. (2017). Discovering knowledge in online drug transactions using conceptual graphs and formal concept analysis. In: 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC). (pp. 100-103). IEEE.
Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., Hajirasouliha, I., Garcia, R., Ozdemir, Z., & Pilakoutas, K. (2017). A situational awareness framework for improving earthquake response, recovery and resilience. In: Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Santiago, Chile, 9-13 January 2017.
Pournouri, S., Akhgar, B., & Bayerl, P. S. (2017). Cyber attacks analysis using decision tree technique for improving cyber situational awareness. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 155-172). Springer, Cham.
Gibson, H., & Akhgar, B. (2017). Towards an enterprise architecture framework for community policing. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 106-112). Springer, Cham.
Day, T., Gibson, H., Gunning, M., & Akhgar, B. (2017). You are not Alone: Enhancing Humanitarian Field Staff Security. In: Next Generation Community Policing Conference. Crete, 25-27th October 2017.
Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., & Domdouzis, K. (2015). Using social media for crisis response: The ATHENA system. In: Proceedings of the second European conference on social media (ECSM 2015). (pp. 183-192).
Brewster, B., Ingle, T., & Rankin, G. (2015). Crawling open-source data for indicators of human trafficking. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (pp. 714–719). IEEE.
Domdouzis, K., Andrews, S., Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., & Hirsch, L. (2015). Service-oriented design of a command and control intelligence dashboard for crisis management. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (pp. 702-707). IEEE.

Book Chapters

McSeveny, K., & Waddington, D. (2017). Human Factors in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency: Some Policy Implications and Lessons of Effective Communication. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 11-20). Springer, Cham.
Lyle, A. (2017). The relevant legal framework. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 157-170). Springer, Cham.
Charalambous, E., Kavallieros, D., Brewster, B., Leventakis, G., Koutras, N., & Papalexandratos, G. (2017). Combatting cybercrime and sexual exploitation of children: an open source toolkit. In: Open source intelligence investigation. (pp. 233-249). Springer, Cham.
Sampson, F. (2017). Following the breadcrumbs: Using Open Source Intelligence as evidence in Criminal proceedings. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 295-304). Springer, Cham.
Lyle, A. (2017). Legal considerations for using open source intelligence in the context of cybercrime and cyberterrorism. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 277-294). Springer, Cham.
Tabatabaei, F., & Wells, D. (2017). OSINT in the Context of Cyber-Security. In: Open source intelligence investigation. (pp. 213-231). Springer, Cham.
Ramwell, S., Day, T., & Gibson, H. (2017). Use cases and best practices for LEAs. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 197-211). Springer, Cham.
Day, T., Gibson, H., & Ramwell, S. (2017). Fusion of OSINT and non-OSINT data. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 133-152). Springer, Cham.

White Papers and Reports

Bayerl, P.S., Obst, M., & Akhgar, B. (2023). International Citizen Consultation on AI Accountability in Policing. AP4AI Report 3.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, H. Gibson, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC (2022). AP4AI Framework Blueprint, AP4AI Report 2.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC M. Gercke, Cybercrime Research Institute (2022). Summary Report on Expert Consultations, AP4AI Report 1.