The University of Portsmouth is proud to have partnered with the ICI Bucharest and ChainArgos (the Blockchain Intelligence Academy) in creating the BICE towards professionalising the blockchain intelligence field.
Blockchain technology is decentralised and borderless. However, law enforcement agencies are sitting in silos in their respective jurisdictions, left to face the onslaught of economic crime wrought by permissionless, pseudonymous transactions facilitated by blockchain.
With a large student market in criminology, this partnership is a great opportunity for the BICE to provide academic expertise and ensure blockchain intelligence training is delivered effectively to a global audience of students.
It is hoped that the BICE can provide a safe space for global cooperation and collaboration between law-enforcement agencies, and former students of the BICE, who would have developed their openness and camaraderie as a result of their shared learning experience.
- The role of blockchain intelligence in investigating and prosecution cybercrimes and economic crimes.
- The needs of your industry, organisation, or sector towards the BICE delivering relevant professional certification and forensic training programmes on the use of blockchain intelligence.
- How to best equip students with the skills needed to meet employer demand for expertise in tracing illicit crypto payments and combatting cybercrimes and economic crimes.
- The establishment of global standards for admissible evidence reliant on blockchain intelligence.
- Supporting research in blockchain technology whilst strengthening the impact on international policy and practice.
Dr. Paul Gilmour is a Senior Lecturer in Economic Crime, course leader of the MSc Economic Crime (campus) degree, and lead of the Economic Crime Research Group at the University of Portsmouth.
Prior to this, he served for nearly 20 years in the UK police service, most recently, as a detective specialising in criminal investigations. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Financial Crime and Journal of Money Laundering Control.
You can become a member of the Blockchain Intelligence Forum if you are a certified blockchain intelligence practitioner in a front-line organisation or company, within the European Union.