Future police officers and law enforcement personnel will be trained to collect, verify and analyse open-source intelligence (OSINT) at a new investigative laboratory opened at the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Stefan cel Mare Academy. The laboratory will provide a setting for hands-on exercises in information gathering and analysis, IPN reports.
According to the institution, the laboratory is equipped with 15 workstations for trainees and one for the instructor, 30 monitors, networking equipment, an interactive display, and videoconferencing systems. During the opening ceremony, diplomas were presented to the first ten graduates of the OSINT training course, who gained skills in conducting open-source investigations.
The Stefan cel Mare Academy will be able to use the laboratory to hold regular training programmes in digital investigations, following an approved curriculum and involving trainers specifically trained for this purpose.
The new laboratory was inaugurated with the support of the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme as part of the “Resilient Democracy through Anti-Corruption” project. It will be used both to train future police officers and to provide continuing professional development for staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies.
