About the Europ-Cop Project
Project aims
The primary goal of this work is to increase the time spent on the streets by patrolling police officers. A significant obstacle to achieving this goal is the limitations of the technologies that pedestrian police officers currently use to receive and record information about the situations that they deal with.
The immediate objective is to define and evaluate technologies to improve the efficiency of pedestrian police officers. The solutions proposed by the project will provide pedestrian police officers with better information capture and management, improving their efficiency and thus the global efficiency of their police service. The Europ-Cop project will integrate new ICT solutions to allow greater efficiency, speed and safety for a police officer patrolling on the street. At the same time, it will enable police officers to give better services to citizens.
Project duration
Start date: 1 February 2007Expected end date: 1 May 2008
Project funding and accountability
The project is funded through the European Union's PASR R&D programme, which is concerned with ‘the enhancement of the European industrial potential in the field of Security Research’.
The R&D context
The European Commission's perspective on security research is that it is a fundamental role of government to ensure the security of citizens, but this role should also take into account the need to increase industrial competitiveness. Balancing these priorities presents challenges. PASR is a research programme that investigates these problems; it is coordinated by the European Security Research department of the European Commission.
The kinds of work undertaken by projects, such as Europ-Cop, that are within the PASR theme include:
‘Studies in support of security solutions with a particular emphasis on human behaviour; security awareness, perception of security and privacy; resilience of society to acts of terrorism; societal effects and citizen rights; and macro-economics effects of security.’
Find out more …
- security research in the European Commission (Justice and Home Affairs directorate)
- For more information about the Europ-Cop project, contact Vincent Brochier, Sagem Défense Sécurité (vincent.brochier it seems that your browseratdoes not support CSS sagem.com) or use our online feedback form.
