Law Enforcement

The RVCRI Solicitation Webinar will provide details and guidance to eligible applicants on the RVCRI Microgrant Program. The RVCRI is a competitive microgrant program, funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, supporting rural law enforcement agencies addressing violent crime challenges. Microgrants can support various aspects of policing including improving investigations, implementing violent crime reduction strategies, and enhancing collaboration between local stakeholders. Awards are competitive in nature and can range from $25,000 - $150,000.

Do you ever wonder if there is another way to repair harm and think about accountability within our criminal legal system?

This webinar will show how parallel investigation techniques commence with a review of tactics and strategies that can be introduced in related fraud enquires. The importance protecting the tradecraft deployed and the use of open and closed source research will be discussed to include comparable techniques used in covert sensitive investigations. Money laundering utilizing virtual, or cryptocurrency will be featured to examine current tradecraft. Additionally, this presentation will include discussion of the impact on not-for-profits as well as a look at mortgage fraud. Supporting case studies will highlight the merit of covert/sensitive law enforcement investigative techniques. The presentation will emphasize the link between tax avoidance, money laundering, and terrorist funding. Finally, proper legislation and an effective suspicious transaction reporting process will complete the program.

This course provides expert guidance in the skills law enforcement officers need to conduct successful online investigations. Topics include IP addresses and domains, an overview of currently popular social media platforms, best practices for building an undercover profile, foundational knowledge related to the dark web, and the use of the dark web as an investigative tool. Instructors demonstrate both open-source and commercially-available investigative tools for social engineering, information gathering, and artifacts related to social media; as well as automated utilities to capture information and crawl websites.

*Internet basics. IP address assignment; resolving domains and IP addresses; networking overview.
*Popular sites. Facebook, Twitter, KiK Messenger, Snapchat, Instagram, tumblr, and more.
*The dark web. Surface, deep, and dark web; how data flows through the internet. Who uses the dark web and how?
*Tor. How to access Tor; how Tor traffic works; how a Tor Hidden Service works; installing and configuring the Tor Browser Bundle.