During a session "European barrier model Organised Property crime" in Brussels, eleven different member states worked on this European model.
In this session, the participants supplemented the already existing model with facilitators, signals, service providers, partners and barriers that, according to them, were still missing in the first version of the model. After the model was almost completed by the participants, they started prioritizing the steps in the model and choose on which steps they will work on together. In the first instance, they prioritized the process steps of the OPC barrier model. A distinction was made between international and national process steps. The participants decided to work on the international process steps that are selected in blue. Entry, Use of infrastructure Transport and trade and Use gainings. The international process steps were chosen, so that the participants in this session can work together at EU level with the issues surrounding Organised Property Crime. The national process steps can be taken at a national level.
The second priority after prioritizing the process steps, was the selection of one barrier of each process step. The members states selected the barriers that deserves the most attention from the participants. An exception is process step three (Use of infrastructure), two barriers have been selected from that step. The following barriers have been prioritized:
1. Entry > Targeting centre - Passenger lists
2. Use of infrastructure > ANPR
3. Use of infrastructure > Rental car companies
4. Transport and trade > Surveillance on second-hand websites
5. Use gainings > Deeper investigation of assets/gainings
The member states made these barriers concrete with an action plan. In addition, some of the barriers where completed with a timeline.
Entry | Housing | Use of infrastructure | Use infrastructure (communication) | Commit crime | Storage | Transport and trade | Use gainings |
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Travel agencies |
Type of paid night stays |
Railway |
Internet |
Hardware stores |
Commercial storage facilities |
Rental car |
Bank |
Bus companies |
Rented houses |
Highway |
Accomplice |
Hotel room |
Black market |
Concealer |
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Airport |
House of multiple occupancy |
Airport |
Criminal share adresses |
Dealers for used cars |
Money mule |
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Immigrants (vulnerable to trafficking) |
Buses (euroliners) |
Family houses | Pawn Shop | Dark werb | |||
Crime unregistered |
Car rental |
Scrapyard |
Cheap bus travel compagnies |
Used products second hand website/shop |
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Location near hotspots |
UK cars |
Own housing facilitys |
Port |
Social media (facebook) | |||
Travellers sites | Camping | Containers of storage facility's | |||||
Hiding in family groups like groups in hotels |
Motel |
Cheap transport (Flixbus) |
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Car front men |
Anchor persons |
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Rental car compagnies |
Vulnerable people (drugs/ |
Seaport |
Garage boxes |
Scrap dealer |
Cryptocurrency |
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Cheap tickets |
Cheap rooms |
Not checking ID's in buses, trains and boats |
Inattentiveness |
anonymous storage facilities |
No check of ownership when travelling |
Not checking where the money comes from |
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Good infrastructure |
Lack of surveillance |
Privacy boundaries |
Small expensive products |
Unlimited places to store |
No registration of stolen goods |
Money laundering constructions |
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Monitoring and registration |
Schengen area |
Places that look legal |
Dark web, |
Open EU market with 28 legal systhems | |||
Documents (papers) removed by traffickers |
Document Fraud |
Open EU market with 27 different legal systems |
videao availible with turorials. |
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Hides criminals as well as victims |
Cash payments for rent a place like a box |
Alternative platform for transporting and transitioning money |
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Anonymity - not registered INHMO |
verry fast information exchange |
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Lack of controle in Schengen area |
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a lack of number identification |
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Indication of a population in direct contact with mobile crime groups |
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Small amount of luggage and a long stay |
False documents |
Small groups traveling in small vans |
Use of mobile phones in suspicious countrey's |
Strange behavior of small groups of men |
A lot of traffic around a storage box |
Price far too low for a 'new' product |
Strange pattern of spending |
False documents |
Too many people in one house |
Sudden stops at parking spots |
Crime scene as destination in navigation system |
Messages on social media |
Products hidden in containers |
Use of stolen tools |
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Patterns / frequencies in traffic movement |
To much protection for a box or house |
Documents |
Big spenders without justifief income |
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Incomes that can not be justified |
Owners of different types of legal business |
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Too much storage room for what they claim |
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Too high amount of rent for a storage box |
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Use of jammers |
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Number of employees |
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Customs |
Customs |
Highway patrol |
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Hardware stores |
Police |
Gas stations |
Financial Intelligence Unit |
Airlines |
Hotels |
Railways |
Bystanders |
Commercial storage facilities |
Freigth companies |
Real estate agents | |
Ferry lines |
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Boarder controles at: |
Clubs |
Cotenants of storage facilities |
Pown shop |
Financial |
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Airports |
Camping providers |
Owner of goods (for example boats) |
Municipalities |
Car rental compagnys |
Postal services |
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Coastguard |
Car rentor sector |
Media |
Pawn shops | ||||
Municipality's |
Local and national gouvernement |
Port services |
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Automatic Licence Plate Recognition |
Night registration book |
Increase highway patrols |
Internet logs / legislative obligation |
Sentencing in own country |
Surveillance cameras |
Registration of concealed goods or transported |
International cooperation taxation authorities |
Information exchange with Europol and between countries |
Awareness chalet |
Predictive profiling |
Accesing communicatio data legally and quickly |
Burglary prevention and other prevention programs |
Rental check |
Surveillance of black markets |
Check on money laundering |
Targeting centre Passenger list |
Paying by plastic card instead of cash |
JAD Intel led (CFR onstrident) boats, buses |
Exploiting telematics in domestic cars and lorries (tachograph) |
More camera's/security measures in public places |
unusual use of electricity |
Software tools to trace stolen goods |
Reporting mechanism for facilitators/partners |
Reaction on entry |
To oblige all the companies to have check out for receips |
Automatic licence plate recognition (ANPR) |
Information exchange between partners /police agencies/internationaal |
Registry for authority's |
Online surviliance or to mark websites |
The law on money laundring |
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Change of the law |
Stop/deny licenses |
ID Checks |
Coorperation between governemental authorities ans compagnies |
Registry for rent information |
Apps |
online actions sites Ebay |
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Face recognition |
Control air B&B city's |
Surveillance (CCTV) camera's |
Awarness of patterns and trends |
GPS tracking device |
Increased controle on the roads |
suspicious income regulations |
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Profiling |
Information sharing to 'locate' vulnerabble |
Hotel Register |
Cooperation and propper legislation of the arriving date compagnies |
Cooperation with storage |
Developing ANPR systems |
one legal common EU approach |
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Change Identity |
Housing authority checks on hygene, fire, safety, construction, homeles |
Sociol controle |
Running internet apps for communication |
Jammer detection |
Registration of prepaid sim cards |
Deeper investigation - asset recovering |
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Identity Numbers constency (checks) |
Using housing legislation |
Big data: assessing en layering multiple data |
ANPR |
Chop Chop Scrap metals |
Lack of legal tools in legislation |
No cash regulation in alle of the EU |
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Communication |
Physical patrol checks |
Environment agency registrationLegislation/check of travellers who travel with bus or train. |
Legislation/check of travellers who travel with bus or train. |
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Society information regarding modus used bij mobil crime groups in new storage area |
Property marking/ identification mark |
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International registration scheme |
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Developing common database for institution and administration bodies |
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Protocol / agreement between LEA adminisstration bodies |