Foreign Experience in the Anti-Terrorist Use of OSINT

The tasks of law enforcement agencies include maintaining law and order, protecting citizens, preventing, detecting and investigating crimes. One of the most important aspects of successful police work is the ability of the police to obtain timely, reliable and effective intelligence information related to the investigation of an offense. OSINT can provide law enforcement and security agencies with a critical opportunity to supplement and enhance their intelligence capabilities, as the ability to quickly collect and accurately process and analyze open source data can be a significant aid to investigations, as well as used for strategic planning of crime fighting at the national level. OSINT, in addition to criminal proceedings, provides an invaluable way to access and collect information from open sources, location data, and combines it with real-time analytical capabilities. Thus, targeted and legitimate monitoring, analysis and visualization of open source data should be considered a mandatory requirement of any national security strategy. In the context of using OSINT, increasing its potential and effectiveness, it is important to study foreign experience, in particular, the developed UK strategy - CONTEST, which is the basis for measures to prevent terrorism, prosecute terrorists and protect against terrorism in general. The results and achievements of effective and innovative solutions by security and law enforcement agencies are also considered in the context of cooperation with private and public partners, including academia. Using the successful experience of the CENTRIC OSINT Hub, it is noted that academia and law enforcement agencies can cooperate in the field of OSINT in order to translate research into reality for the safety of citizens.