Legislation

• RIPA – 2000
• PACE – 1984
• CPIA – 1996
• Fraud Act 2006
• Data Protection Act 1998
• Human Rights Act 1998
• PIDA – Whistle blowing
• ASBO – Crime & Disorder Act
• CNEA – Clean Neighbourhoods
• Lawful Business Practice Regs

Skills

• Interviewing
• Investigation Management
• Enforcement
• Intelligence Management
• Surveillance
• Fraud Management
• Evidence and Exhibits
• Witness statement writing
• Open source web investigator
• National Intelligence Model
• Case paper preparation
• Disclosure
• Document verification

Organisations & departments

• Trading Standards
• Housing Benefits
• Environmental Health
• Community safety
• Fire Service

Lawful Business Practice Regulations

The Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice)(Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000

These apply to the ability of organisations to lawfully intercept, record and monitor all use made of electronic communications in their control.

Our course helps organisations avoid unlawful breaches of Article 8 - Right to Privacy and ensures that information gathered is admissable as evidence. It also steers delegates through issues relating to:

• RIPA intercept warrants
• communications data
• directed covert surveillance

Our training sessions feature practical demonstrations of interpreting phone, Internet and email routing data to identify source and destination information

Target audience

Those, including managers, involved in gathering electronic intelligence and evidence to further investigations

Aim

To ensure evidential and intelligence gathering opportunities are fully utilised relating to use of communications systems

To enable delegates to:

• understand the regulations
• describe the required policy, its purpose and administration
• identify data available and where to find it
• define the process for requesting similar data from other organisations
• describe the data available from Internet, phone, and email transactions
• understand how to read this data to further an investigation
• describe how to use open source methods to identify destination and origin information from IP address and "contacted" number information
• identify opportunities to use RIPA acquisition of communications data to further enquiries
• understand how to open full headers on emails using email software to identify sender or recipient Internet Service Provider, IP address and or website
• understand spoof email headers and how to trace sender details
• understand how to capture and evidence findings

Delivery method

The sessions will be delivered using PowerPoint presentations, flipchart explanation, group discussion, individual tuition and practical exercises using computors to reinforce the course outcomes

Course design

Courses are designed around customers' requirements and adapted to their policies and procedures

Information service

Lawful Business Practice Regulations 2000
The Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000 - Office of Public Sector Information website

Investigation support information
Support information for investigators