This summary highlights policing-related resources that have been added to the NPL collection in the last week. Inc. Pattern of life analysis tools, VAWG, corruption, facial recognition, economic crime and the gender pay gap.
Carson, J. et al. 2024. Improving the road safety of e-scooters. Brussels: European Transport Safety Council.
Crest Advisory, 2023. Identifying offenders at risk of domestic abuse perpetration and intervention points in offending journeys: summary of research findings and implications for practitioners. London: Crest Advisory.
Home Office, 2025. Assessing the evidence base of domestic corruption in the UK. London: Home Office.
Home Office, 2025. Crime recording rules for front line officers and staff 2025/26. London: Home Office.
Home Office, 2025. Freedom from violence and abuse A cross government strategy to build a safer society for women and girls vol 1 and vol 2. London: Home Office.
Home Office, 2025. Public attitudes to police use of facial recognition technology. London: Home Office.
NCA, 2024. Evil corp: behind the screens. London: National Crime Agency.
National Economic Crime Centre & Home Office, 2025. Economic crime areas of research interest. London: National Crime Agency.
NCA, 2025. Gender pay gap report 2023-24. London: National Crime Agency.
Forensic Science International: Digital Investigations.
Anderson, D. B. et al. 2025. Tool induced biases? Misleading data presentation as a biasing source in digital forensic analysis. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigations.
“Our experiment conducted a mock murder scenario where pattern of life analysis is necessary to answer investigative questions. Six digital forensics investigators used two different pattern of life analysis tools, Cellebrite and APOLLO, to analyze the data extracted from the victim's iPhone and answer nine core investigative questions."
Gobel, T. et al. 2025. Optimising data set creation in the cybersecurity landscape with a special focus on digital forensics: principles, characteristics, and use cases. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigations.
“This paper analyses the existing literature to identify the key data set (generation) characteristics, issues, desirable attributes, and use cases.”
Bengtsson, J. 2025. The ghost in the building: non-invasive spoofing and covert attacks on automated buildings. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigations.
“This work aims to raise awareness of the potential risk of misinterpretation due to corrupted or tampered data from BACS or HAS event log systems."
Forensic Science International: Genetics.
Gusma, L. et al. 2025. X-chromosomal STRs: metapopulations and mutation rates. Forensic Science International: Genetics.
“This study aimed to generate and compile data on X-STRs in different populations worldwide, as well as data on segregation analyses in father/mother/daughter trios.”
Aly, S. M. et al. 2025. Tramadol-related fatalities: metabolic ratios & SNP/INDELs belonging to UGT1A8, UGT2B7, ABCC2 and SLC22A1. Forensic Science International: Genetics.
“In forensic toxicology, the data about parent and metabolite concentrations (MRs; metabolic ratios) could facilitate to determine the cause of death and to assess time between drug intake and death. ”
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