Framework for first responders to 2nd generation and 3rd generation mobile phones
Duration
June 2005 – June 2008
Internal Participants
Craig Valli , Marwan Al-Zarouni (Dubai Police – Doctoral Candidate)
This is a research project being undertaken by a doctoral candidate. The framework aim is to develop a tool that will allow law-enforcement first responders to better secure electronic evidence that may be contained on these mobile phones or devices such as PDA/Phones. Increasingly mobile phone technology and computer technology are merging as phone vendor’s scramble for a strategic selling advantage via product differentiation strategies. Phone vendors are gaining advantage by adding features such as cameras, calendaring, Synchronisation with Microsoft Office or e-mail applications with many of the newer phones having increasingly greater compute, bigger storage capacity and expanded multimedia features. Mobile phones have been shown to be a primary communication tool of criminals and in particular criminal gangs or terrorists for the purposes of communication or organisation.