Monitoring

Scope

The researchers from Edhec Criminal Risks Management Chair conduct permanent monitoring on the whole field of research:

Methodology

Data Retrieval

Edhec Criminal Risks Management Chair collects information from various sources:

• General open sources
• Various open sources
• Information network

Data processing

The information collected is used by Edhec Criminal Risks Management Chair to

• Draft reports

  The first activity is the creation of texts summarising the data collected, in a 4-stage process.

• Integration of reports

  The second activity consists of integrating the position papers through various supports, in a 3-stage process.

Updating of the criminal and terrorist risk map :
The central data support is a map that provides immediate access to two kinds of information.

Report :
All the information of interest to companies on criminal and terrorist players and criminal and terrorist activities is processed in a specific report accessible via the map.

Weekly summary:
All the reports are combined in a summary presenting the weekly updates on the players and criminal /terrorist activities of interest to business.

Database:
All of the processed data is analysed and fed into a continuously updated database.

Monitoring

The Country focus provides four intelligence deliverables, described above and applied to a specific area:

• Constantly updated map of criminal and terrorist risks in a given country / area
• Position papers on the criminal and terrorist activities noted
• Weekly report on criminal activities and terrorist risks affecting the country / area in question
• Note d'information / action criminelle et terroriste relevée
• Updated database

Mapping threats

The Country focus also provides a specific intelligence analysis of the threats affecting the area in question.

Modelling of the data continually generated by monitoring allows global mapping of the threat using criminal analysis software:

• Criminal actors and terrorists:names, structures, localisations, equipment, etc.
• Links: links between criminal players and terrorists, links with civil society, links with local leaders, etc.
• Activities: chronology of criminal and terrorist activities, logical links between the criminal and terrorist activities (reactions to a declaration, a wave of repression, a new local political order, etc.)

SCOPE

EDHEC Management of Criminal Risks Chair conducts studies on criminal and terrorist risks affecting a target region or country, concentrating and extending the focus of its global monitoring to cover a specific geographical area. This targeted monitoring process covers :

Criminal and terrorist organisations active in the countries in question Gangs locaux

• International and local criminal organisations
• Local gangs
• Violent communities
• Guerrilla organisations
• Terrorist organisations

Criminal and terrorist activities occurring in the countries in question

• Terrorist attacks
• Extortion
• Kidnap & ransom
• Massive theft and looting
• Hacking
• Fraud
• Counterfeiting
• Trafficking and smuggling
• Money laundering
• Terrorist funding
• Bid rigging/ privatisations
• Bid rigging/ public tendersExtorsion