Panacea wins an Innovative Public Procurement process of the National Police

The project presented by the consortium (UTE) led by Fujitsu, and also involving the Spanish SMEs e-Capture and Last Monkey, together with Panacea Cooperative Research, has been selected as the winner of the process of “pre-commercial public procurement of R&D services for the development of innovative solutions in the field of forensic investigation adapted to the crime scene environment, to generate early information that feeds an innovative system of forensic intelligence throughout all scene management processes and subsequent analyses.” The total budget of the project presented by the consortium amounts to more than 11 million euros and will be financed with CDTI’s own funds and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).

Over the next three years, all consortium members will work alongside professionals from the different departments of the Scientific Police on a project aimed at the technologization and automation of processes for onsite information capture, analysis, subsequent processing for intelligence production, and its national and international dissemination. The solution to be developed will support all central and territorial units in making strategic and operational decisions, enhancing their capacity to fight crime, manage migration crises, as well as carry out humanitarian activities requiring the intervention of the Scientific Police.

Panacea’s contributions will focus on the humanitarian field, seeking to consolidate existing lines of research as well as create new ones. Specifically, Panacea’s R&D team will work on:

• Interoperability between forms and databases of missing and unidentified persons.
  
• Forensic Facial Comparison.
  
• Integral support for the identification of bodies and skeletal remains using AI techniques applied to forensic anthropology and odontology.
  
• Estimation of morphological traits from biological samples (DNA).
  
• Estimation of the time of death at the scene.
  
• Non-invasive age estimation of unaccompanied foreign minors.

For the execution of some of the proposed research tasks, support will be provided by the Vigo-based research center Gradiant, the University of A Coruña, the Coruña-based company AllGenetics, and the Granada law firm specialized in technology law, Vilar Global Solutions.