UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science

16 July 2013, British Library, LONDON

This year the 7th International Crime Science Conference will focus on "Engineering Emerging Technologies for our Future Cities". The conference will take place on 16th July 2013 at the British Library in London.

The International Crime Science Conference will showcase leading research that is helping to tackle threats to our urban societies as we move into a new phase of technological and societal development. The conference will examine how our responses to security and crime problems are adapting in line with the invention and adoption of new technologies and methodologies, and the constantly changing nature of our urban environments. Topics covered will include Threat Detection; Domestic Terrorism; Urban Surveillance; Forensic Technology; Securing our Infrastructure; Big Data & Identity.

The conference, which has enjoyed consistently high approval ratings from delegates over the past six years, brings together senior security practitioners, policy-makers, technologists, and academics, all developing the latest techniques and technologies for preventing crime and increasing security. The conference is supported by the UK Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST).

09:00 Registration, coffee and an opportunity to view the student posters

AUDITORIUM

09:35 Welcome: Reducing Crime and Increasing Security in our Future Cities      (Professor Richard Wortley, Director of the Jill Dando Institute of Security & Crime Science)

09:45 Mission and Capabilities of the JDI Centre for Security Technology (Dr Karl Woodbridge, Director)

10:00 Plenary 1 TBC

10:30 Plenary 2 TBC

11:00 BREAK: Refreshments and student posters

11:00 - 13:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS as follows:

AUDITORIUM - THREAT DETECTION

• Chemical & Biological Sensors (Professor Ivan Parkin, UCL Chemistry)

• Airborne Trace Analyte Detection Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (Professor Joshua Edel, Imperial College London)
• New Approaches to X-Ray Security Scanning (Professor Robert Speller, UCL Medical Physics)

External Chair: Dr Paul Brittan (L3-TRL)
Internal Chair: Dr Kenneth Tong (UCL Electronic Engineering)

BRONTE ROOM - SECURING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE

• Building Design (Asmund Izaki, Aedas)
• Securing the Infrastructure from the Threat of Terrorism (Dr Tanya Le Sage, FP7 Project RIBS - Resilient Infrastrcture and Building Security)
• Risk Management of Critical National Infrastructure (TBC, David Rubens Consulting)

External Chair: Andrew Sieradzki, Happold Safe & Secure
Internal Chair: Dr Herve Borrion, UCL Security & Crime Science

ELIOT ROOM - DOMESTIC TERRORISM

• Data Exploitation in Counter Terrorism Cases (Professor Adam Ogilvie-Smith, CGI and Robert Gordon University)
• Exploring Patterns of Behaviour in Violent Jihadist Terrorists (Dr Lindsay Clutterback, University of Cambridge)
• Seven Empirical Truths About Lone-Actor Terrorists (Dr Paul Gill, UCL Security & Crime Science)

External Chair: Jason Field, Defence Science and Technology Lab (Dstl)
Internal Chair: Dr Noemie Bouhana, UCL Security & Crime Science

13:00 - 14:00 BREAK: Lunch and student posters

14:00 - 15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS as follows:

AUDITORIUM - URBAN AREA SURVEILLANCE

• Urban Security Technology (Dr Wolfgang Koch, FKIE)
• Visualising Spatial Measures of Urban Safety (Christian Derix, Aedas)
• Urban Area Surveillance Using Wireless Network (Dr Kevin Chetty, UCL Centre for Security Technology)

External Chair: Professor Dick Lacy, CAST (Home Office)
Internal Chair: Professor Hugh Griffiths, UCL Electronic Engineering

BRONTE ROOM - BIG DATA & IDENTITY

• Identity, Mapping & Big Data (Dr James Cheshire, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis - CASA)
• Investigating Strategies for the Policing of Disorder, Based on the London Riots (Dr Hannah Fry, CASA)
• The Impact of the Police National Database on Information Sharing (Tessa Lambri, Loughborough University)

External Chair: Dean Cooper, Wynyard Group
Internal Chair: Professor Frank Smith, UCL Mathematics

ELIOT ROOM - FORENSIC TECHNOLOGY

• TBC
• TBC
• Enhancement of Poor Quality Speech Recordings: the CLEAR project (Dr Mark Huckvale, UCL Centre for Law Enforcement Audio Research - CLEAR)

External Chair: TBC
Internal Chair: Dr Ruth Morgan, UCL JDI Centre for the Forensic Sciences

15:30 - 16:30 BREAK: Refreshments and announcement of Student Poster Prize

AUDITORIUM

16:00 - 16:30 Plenary: Horizon 2020 - Future Funding in Security Research, 2014-2020 (Derek Gallaher, National Contact Point for FP7UK - Security)

16:30 Refreshments and networking

Registration for the International Crime Science conference can be accessed via this link.

Registration costs

• Early bird rate:   £199
• Concessionary Rate (Probationary police officers, UCL and non-UCL students and UCL Staff only):   £99

To book please click on this link.

Speaker bios and talk abstracts will appear here shortly.