Law Enforcement Intelligence consolidated a relevant position, in Brazil and globally, from the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s as a necessary response to transnational organized crime.

Since then, both in support of executive decision-making processes by the Police and other public security bodies as far as supporting the tactical and operational levels of policing, prevention, repression and, deterrence, the activity has been developing in the country (Brazil), often serving as an efficiency parameter for policies and operations against transnational organized crime.

Such development has occurred both in the empirical-police and academic-scientific fields, feeding doctrinal, bibliographic, and research production in the thematic area.

On the other hand, the use of techniques and methods derived from intelligence in police and public security activities, including their judicial and prosecutable consequences, remains a daily challenge for both police operators and scholars on the subject. In fact, it is an activity that, considering the potential collisions of fundamental rights and guarantees involved during its exercise, requires a constant link with the foundations of the Democratic Rule of Law, a society pillar for which police intelligence must necessarily operate, seeking the fulfillment of the fundamental right to public security.

The theme of governance, management and innovation in public security provides opportunities for discussions that favor the development of strategies, new processes, new organizational architectures, tactics, operations, attitudes, capabilities and leadership processes. The theme recognizes the importance of interdisciplinary knowledge for solving challenges in the field of public security.

In the literature, it is identified that in recent decades society has witnessed significant advances and innovations in public security, provided by technological advances and new public governance. Furthermore, the scenario demonstrates the benefits of the convergence of practical, scientific and social knowledge in favor of quality of life, security, freedom with responsibility, and socio-economic-political-cultural development.

Increasingly uncertain and accelerated conditions in the environment are about to result in a paradigm shift in various sectors of society, including public safety. The environment in which the Public Security macrosystem operates is changing faster than the systems and policies that comprise it. In this context, innovation becomes an imperative, and no longer just an option. New approaches are needed in governance, management and even in the structures that constitute these systems to facilitate and accelerate change and innovation.

Governance differs from management in that the former focuses on the strategic policies and guidelines of an organization and its stakeholders, while management is concerned with the implementation and administration of these policies and guidelines. Innovation (policy, process, organizational, services, products,...) is the element that will mobilize organizations to adapt to the environment in order to better face the perverse challenges All these processes depend on knowledge, the main capital today , and knowledge management, a mechanism that involves people (including leadership), processes and technologies, is essential both for governance and management and for innovation.

In the contemporary world, characterized by risk and uncertainty, the problems presented to police organizations and police officers are increasingly complex, requiring greater and more qualified investment in the human factor. Different scientific knowledge has participated in the modernization of police activity and contributed to the definition of good practices.

The knowledge coming from psychology and the intervention of the psychologist in police organizations are internationally recognized as crucial for improving the provision of the police service, namely through investment in the quality of working conditions and in the support of police professionals.

The permanent development of new technologies and their application to police problems also require a growing sophistication of police professionals in the use of decision-making skills, perception  and risk management, communication, leadership, research.

Selecting the most competent, as well as designing and designing training and training for police officers who will be in office in the mid-21st century, implies that managers and police leaders welcome the knowledge from the area of psychology.

IIt is within this framework that we welcome contributions from researchers who are interested and research in the field of Police Psychology (considered a specialty for the American Psychological Association since  2013), as an area of application of principles and methods of psychological science to police organizations and their professionals, as essential and active elements of communities.

There are several ways of thinking about the environment, among which 03 (three) conceptions stand out, namely: the anthropocentric conception to defend the thesis that the protection of the environment aims to defend human life because, as the philosopher Protagoras said, "man is the measure of all things"; the ecocentric conception in which concerns with the planet and nature are predominant, whose extreme perspective understands the forest and non-human animals as depersonalized subjects of rights; the polycentric or cosmocentric conception to establish a middle ground with the prevalence of the anthropocentric or ecocentric conception in each concrete case, based on the principle of proportionality and reasonableness.
These environmental conceptions constitute the fundamental theoretical presuppositions of environmental law whose triumphant characteristic is the epistemological transversality with strong influences from different epistemic communities, such as biology, chemistry, geology and ecology itself.
One of the important aspects of environmental law is the Environmental Criminal Law (or Ecological Criminal Law). The use of criminal law for the protection of biotic and abiotic environmental heritage is increasingly frequent. In 2008, the European Union approved Directive 2008/99/EC, claiming the protection of the environment through criminal law. Climate emergencies, global warming, pollution and ocean acidity have occupied the contemporary global agenda.
That's why, in 2021, 04 (four) international events were held on the environment, namely: i. The Climate Summit (convened by Joe Biden); ii. The World Bioeconomy Forum (held in Belém do Pará); iii. COP-15 on Biodiversity (held in China); iv. COP-26 in Glasgow/Scotland (most important of the Climate Conferences).
Environmental criminal law can be seen as a multifaceted polyhedron, all of which are relevant to the criminal protection of the environment for the current and future generations.

Dossier of the International Seminar on Police Science and Organized Crime, held between 21 and 25 June 2021, organized by the Escola Superior de Polícia (ANP/PF) and the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal. This edition features articles by some of the national and foreign speakers who participated in the event, representing topics from the Police Science, Police Intelligence and Organized Crime tables.

The approximation between human rights and public security policies has become indispensable in the process of developing a society committed to democratic values ​​and that guarantees the promotion of fundamental rights. Therefore, it is understood that, in addition to the need to train public security agents who guarantee and promote human rights, it is essential that these professionals are linked to institutions and work environments where their own rights are guaranteed and respected. The relationship between human rights and public security is marked by mistaken and prejudiced views, which represents, therefore, a strong impediment to the construction of partnerships between these two areas of knowledge and knowledge. Therefore, it is understood that there is a need for such barriers to be broken and, based on that, it is possible to advance in the elaboration and development of actions and public policies between these two sectors. Such as measures that consider the need for transversality and the specificity of human rights both in the process of training public security professionals and in their constitution as subjects with rights. Public policies aimed at public security servants aim at improving the quality of life of these professionals, with the creation and promotion of social rights and the expansion of the notion of citizenship and democratic values.

Asset recovery has become a cross-cutting axis of criminal policy worldwide. Tracking money and recovering assets is a priority in the fight against crime, in particular organized crime, corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing. To ensure that crime is not profitable (“Crime doesn´t pay”) in recent years, two measures have acquired great prominence worldwide: freezing and confiscation. However, these measures can only be applied effectively if they are based on an equally efficient system of identification and preventive monitoring of the proceeds of crime, including those that have been the object of money laundering. The fight against crime through freezing and confiscation depends on a global and global approach that encompasses both judicial cooperation and that of investigative services, complementary and inseparable facets of the same policy. Timely availability of information is essential for criminal investigations of serious crimes. Financial investigations and financial analysis of illicit activities as policing techniques improve the identification and tracking of proceeds of crime. Hence the importance of having the regulatory instruments that provide for the use of financial and other information for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of criminal offenses. As EUROPOL has shown, more needs to be done to exploit financial intelligence in order to make a more meaningful contribution to the fight against serious crime and achieve real results in the fight against the misuse of the financial system for money laundering. of money, the financing of terrorism and other criminal activities. The asset investigation is of great importance in the criminal order for the punishment of money laundering by allowing the capture of criminals for their economic flows, a weak point of criminal organizations. The Financial Investigation Units (FIUs) play a very prominent role in the fight against organized crime and other associated criminal phenomena. The lack of financial information could prevent the investigation of serious crimes, the prevention of criminal activities and the dismantling of criminal groups, as well as the detection and immobilization of proceeds from criminal activities. These Units contribute to reinforcing security, improving the prosecution of financial crimes, fighting money laundering and preventing tax crimes, hence the importance of enhancing their capacity to carry out financial investigations and improve cooperation between them.

The means of obtaining evidence used in the preliminary phase of criminal prosecution, especially in cases of organized crime, have become more sophisticated. For some time, legislation has provided for exceptional means of obtaining evidence or hidden methods of investigation, loaded, as the name implies, with secrecy. The characteristics of this type of criminality, which is continuous or permanent and has no direct victim, among other specificities, represent challenges to the traditional model of preliminary investigation, which was compelled to make use of new instruments of criminal prosecution, such as telephone interception, telematics , environmental capture of electromagnetic, optical or acoustic signals, and methods such as controlled action and infiltration of agents, among others. In this sense, the possibilities of using technology, through the search for traces, data and information, stored or in transit, significantly change the traditional forms of criminal investigation. Furthermore, surveillance technologies, especially in digital media, have blurred the boundary between the prevention and repression of crimes, between public security and criminal prosecution. On the other hand, the protection of secrecy of communications and privacy, the issues of the use of personal data in the scope of public security and in criminal investigations, tension such uses. These issues require reflection and efforts in order to discuss pressing problems, stress possibilities, draw limits, verify the sufficiency of normative regulation, the exceptionality or expansion of the use of these technologies in criminal investigation.

Criminal expertise plays an important role in the application of scientific methods to clarify human rights violations. There are countless cases in which expert examinations were decisive for the identification of violations of rights, thus not allowing the perpetuation of impunity, nor the permanence of cases of innocent people paying for crimes they did not commit. In this context, this call for articles intends to promote works that aim at the development of scientific methods of investigation that promote human rights and the dignity of the human person, with special attention to validation research and standardization of expert procedures, data systematization, and capillarization of official expertise of a criminal nature.

Human identification has undergone great technological evolution with the design and implementation of biometric systems capable of analyzing one or more traits in the identification process. Biometrics is a concept inserted and demanded by today's society, which demands safe, reliable, fast and robust methods to ensure a person's identity, especially with regard to the public security system, criminal justice, and, ultimately, to the guarantee of human rights. Multibiometric systems (Automated Biometric Identification System - ABIS) have stood out in this sense when compared to uni-biometric ones, given that the presence of multiple sources increases the amount of available information, and can significantly improve the system's performance by combining evidence, make fraud more difficult and have greater power to resolve cases. The analysis of traces and the production of evidence related to human identification, a key element of the papilloscopic expertise, brings information about the presence of someone at a crime scene, establishes connections between individuals, objects and places, informs about the dynamics that occurred, modus operandi, means of access and escape and identifying suspects and victims in addition to consigning innocence. In this context, this call for articles intends to promote works that deal with scientific development and new investigations on human identification, on multibiometric systems and their application in the fight against crime, on papilloscopic expertise and its new challenges and available technology.

Memory of the International Seminar on Police Science and Criminal Policy held in September 2019.