A taxonomy for piracy incident reporting: Tailored for the test implementation of PIRATES in the Gulf of Guinea

This report is an output of the Pilot Project on Piracy, Maritime Awareness and Risks – Gulf of Guinea, carried out by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission on behalf of EuropeAid. Monthly reports are being produced during the duration of this project. To build a maritime piracy taxonomy for PIRATES, piracy incidents were described by their so called attributes, for instance the “name of the ship” that was attacked or the “location of the piracy incident”. Then, the attributes were grouped together in so called sections, for instance the “name of the ship” belongs to the group “ship details”. The following nine sections were created: 1) As regards identification, the following attributes were created: Reporting entity, Date entered, Incident number, Incident Sort, Incident Type, Status of report, Report last modified. 2) As regards DTG and location, the following attributes were created: Incident date, Incident time, Time zone, Period of day, Country of incident, Position of incident, Location of incident, Area of incident, Latitude and Longitude. 3) As regards the ship details, the following attributes were created: Name of ship, IMO Number, MMSI Number, Call sign, Flag of Ship, Type of ship, Length of ship, DWT of ship and photo of ship. 4) As regards ship circumstances, the following attributes were created: next port, last port and nearest port of ship, status of ship, speed of ship, freeboard of ship, security on board, Citadel/safe room, ships security level, visibility, wind speed and wave height. 5) As regards details of the attack, the following attributes were created: type and number of attackers, type and number of boats, weapons used, violence used, length of attack, attackers arrested, injured or killed, ship entered by and mitigating actions. 6) As regards victim details, there is a possibility to enter the number of victims killed, injured, missing, kidnapped, threatened, taken hostage and/or assaulted. There is a possibility to enter the number of crew on board with EU Citizenship. 7) As regards narrative, there is a possibility to enter a free-format description of the attack. 8) As regards the post-incident details, the following attributes were created: Consequences for victims, Days held in captivity, Ship released on, Ransom paid, Human Shield, Crew Mothership, Vessel raided, Estimated costs and Authorities reported to. 9) As regards photos and reports, a possibility to attach photos and reports of the incident was developed in PIRATES.JRC.G.3-Maritime affair

Maritime Piracy Incident Reporting - A Technical Feasibility Study

To address maritime piracy, the maritime stakeholders in the Gulf of Guinea region need timely and accurate information on piracy incidents, not only to provide accurate and timely information on the safety of shipping, but also for statistics and trends. Furthermore, the sharing of this piracy incident information is essential to support law enforcement agencies in their counter piracy activities. In the Gulf of Guinea region, no formal system of piracy incident reporting exists, and one of the main problems is the lack of good quality information on piracy attacks. Therefore, it is needed to collect and store information on piracy incidents in a (centralized) reporting system. Besides this, no formal system of information exchange exists between States or organizations in the Gulf of Guinea region. Since the ECCAIRS software already provides a reporting environment allowing data collection and data exchange, it was suggested to study from a technical point of view if ECCAIRS could be a suitable system for addressing the above mentioned issues in the Gulf of Guinea region. The feasibility study shows that from a technical point of view the ECCAIRS software is applicable to the maritime piracy domain at very low costs and with a very short development time. The main deliverable of this technical feasibility study is a specific maritime piracy version of ECCAIRS, which is called PIRATES (Piracy Incident Reporting And informaTion Exchange System). It was recommended to (test) implement PIRATES in the Gulf of Guinea region to support the local maritime authorities to enhance their maritime awareness.JRC.G.3-Maritime affair

Aspectos da investigação criminal relacionados à interceptação telefônica e à extração de dados da telefonia móvel

A Constituição Cidadã incorporou diversos direitos e garantias fundamentais pulsantes no mundo pós Segunda Guerra Mundial, portanto, o presente artigo objetiva traçar uma linha do tempo Constitucional quanto à garantia da inviolabilidade das comunicações telefônicas, analisando as hipóteses de relativização destas garantias e fazendo conexão com a lei infraconstitucional. Em segundo momento, passa a analisar os direitos do Estado frente à persecução penal, colidindo com os interesses individuais quanto à vida privada e à intimidade. Em terceiro momento, serão analisados dois julgados das instâncias superiores de nosso sistema jurídico, sendo um favorável e outro desfavorável à extração de dados armazenados, culminando ao fim com um breve cotejo destas jurisprudências frente a doutrina e a legislação atual, concluindo que, para uma melhor aplicabilidade do instituto, correta seria a aplicação da orientação da Senhora Ministra Maria Thereza de Assis Moura, julgadora do Habeas Corpus desfavorável à extração de dados. A pesquisa será qualitativa, valendo-se do método dedutivo com análise de bibliografia e jurisprudência para elaboração do estudo de caso