According to the Associated Press, the
Alton, Ill., Police Department's technology specialist, Officer Mike Bazzell, recently returned from Germany where he improved his Internet crime-tracking skills at a weeklong digital world seminar put on by the International Police Association. The seminar also presented an opportunity for the Alton Police Department to establish contacts with European law enforcement officials that may be of assistance in future investigations.
The conference covered different ways countries use technology in police work. The topics of the conference included software application and Web resources European law enforcement officials use to fight crime, methods of tracking e-mails of criminals who commit identity theft, hacking and financial fraud
One example of how e-mail can be tracked to solve crimes came from a police officer who has investigated threats to the British royal family which he solved by tracing e-mails.
Bazzell also had an opportunity to give a presentation on using technology in law enforcement techniques with his European colleagues. The European officers questioned him about the use of digital video cameras, a technology that is not yet popular with European police.
