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The cooperation between the Metropolitan Police and international authorities, including Portuguese and German authorities, in the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
Prosecuting child sexual abuse material () offenses rooted in the is repeatedly hampered by technical anonymity, vast volumes of material, uneven legal tools, and constrained investigative resources, ...
Most countries prohibit the production of sexually explicit material involving persons under 18, but international reporting and datasets show important gaps, variation in definitions (age of “child,”...
Law enforcement agencies use NCMEC’s Case Management Tool (CMT) as a centralized conduit for CyberTipline reports, technical assistance, forensic resources and training to coordinate investigations th...
U.S. agencies determine the country of origin for seized fentanyl using a mix of chemical forensics, supply‑chain and shipping records, precursor chemical tracing, financial intelligence, and multinat...
publicly set out that its initial task was an investigative review of all prior inquiries into disappearance and that, since becoming a full investigation in 2013, it has worked with Portuguese and to...
A is first screened by analysts at the who separate informational items from “referrals” that contain sufficient detail for . Once designated a referral, the information is shared with appropriate tas...
—alerts, leads, or reports about past network intrusion or abuse—are difficult to investigate because evidence degrades, legal and jurisdictional barriers multiply after the fact, and investigative ca...
Some offenders go undetected or uninvestigated because an explosive, global flow of reports overwhelms limited investigative capacity, while technical, legal and cross-border barriers let sophisticate...
The most commonly refers to ’s Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH, a specialist group focused on , interim storage and decommissioning services that has operated since the late 1970s and supplies wi...
and authorities have taken a mix of public-advice, reporting channels and active policing measures against : the UK’s provides specific guidance and a mechanism to report “Dubai romance scams” , while...
Reporting APIs and platform data fields strongly shape the investigatory usefulness of CyberTip submissions by determining what information arrives, how structured it is, and whether investigators can...
The FBI grounded its conclusion that Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone on a convergence of physical-scene forensics, chain-of-fire accounting, digital-device exploitation, exhaustive interviews at hom...
Cryptocurrencies and other payment systems function as critical financial plumbing for the China-to‑Mexico fentanyl precursor trade by enabling cross‑border, near‑instant, pseudonymous payments that c...
Law enforcement tracks users of dark‑web marketplaces through a mix of technical attacks, undercover human intelligence, financial forensics and traditional policing methods, backed by multiagency and...
U.S. government and law‑enforcement reporting point to a networked supply chain in which precursor chemicals for illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids often originate in countries such as the P...