Call: Forensics topic 3: Mobile, remotely controlled technologies to examine a crime scene in case of an accident or a terrorist attack involving CBRNE materials

The primary aims of the Secure Societies Challenge are:

• to enhance the resilience of our society against natural and man-made disasters, ranging from the development of new crisis management tools to communication interoperability, and to develop novel solutions for the protection of critical infrastructure;
• to fight crime and terrorism ranging from new forensic tools to protection against explosives;
• to improve border security, ranging from improved maritime border protection to supply chain security and to support the Union's external security policies including through conflict prevention and peace building;
• and to provide enhanced cyber-security, ranging from secure information sharing to new assurance models

The ambition of this call is both to avoid an incident and to mitigate its potential consequences. This requires new technologies and capabilities for fighting and preventing crime (including cyber-crime), illegal trafficking and terrorism (including cyber-terrorism), including understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs to also avoid aviation related threats.

This call is divided in four parts:

• Forensics
• Law enforcement capabilities
• Urban security
• Ethical/societal dimension 

In the event of an accident or a terrorist attack (including those involving CBRNE materials), the physical examination of the crime scene by hand may not be possible, or could be severly restricted due to the presence of hazardous material or risk of building collapse. Therefore, there is a need for the development of mobile, remotely- controlled technologies to enable an improved identification/detection of CBRNE materials and collection of forensic material / evidence in a variety of situations and conditions.

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