Tracking of financial movements

Objectives

To assess the use of automated and non-automated systems tracking financial movements in the detection, prevention and/or prosecution of crimes across Europe and examine grounds for establishment, costs, density, on-going investment, amount of staff, crime solving rate using these techniques.

Partners

P1RuG, P2UCLAN, P3UL, P4LSC, P5BBU, P6UiO, P7ULE, P8LIF, P9UU, P10UGOE, P11USFD, P12LUH, P14FMUNIBA, P15UoM, P16UNIVIE, P17MU, P18ECU, P19INTERPOL

Description of work

Task 8.1         Identifying and classifying the use of automated systems tracking financial movements used in crime detection, prevention and/or prosecution of crimes in participating member states

This sub-task aims at

  • making an inventory of public and private automated systems tracking financial movements used or being planned in participating member states;
  • identify the technical setup of each of the systems, including potential of interoperability between systems.

Task 8.2         Identifying grounds for establishment; set-up costs and on-going investment; and amount of staff

This sub-tasks reviews the legal and political grounds for establishment given at the time when automated systems tracking financial movements were set up and compares this to grounds given for the retention (and/or extension) of these systems over the years.

It also

  • Identifies the set-up and on-going costs of each system.
  • Identifies the amount of staff employed by the private or public sector to run the systems.

Task 8.3         Identify degree of automated decisions based on data collected from automated systems tracking financial movements

  • Identifies different decisions based solely on automated processing of data
  • Identifies different decisions based partly on automated processing of data
  • Identifies extent of human effort necessary.

Task 8.4         Identify the degree of interoperability between public and private automated systems tracking financial movements

  • Identifies interoperability situations between different public automated systems tracking financial movements
  • Identifies interoperability situations between publicly and privately operated systems
  • Identifies the legal and policy protocols followed in the process of using publicly and privately operated automated systems tracking financial movements.

Task 8.5         Impact Assessment following criteria established in WP3

Carry out an overview impact assessment of automated and non-automated systems tracking financial movements based on the criteria established in WP3