Alejandro Rodriguez Bauza
- Head of Operations in the Migrant Smuggling Group in the Intelligence Service
- Guardia Civil, Spain
Alejandro Rodríguez is a Senior Officer in the Spanish Guardia Civil, currently serving as the Head of Operations in the Migrant Smuggling Group in the Intelligence Service. His Group is focused on investigating and dismantling all the criminal organisations that are operating all over Spain (mainly focused in the South and the Canary Islands), whose main purpose is to smuggle illegal migrants into Europe.
Sessions
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OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) at the Border
How do we disrupt or prevent travel of bad actors?
Information sharing between some governments is good, but any gaps will be exploited. Interpol and ICAO are starting to provide greater access to what were previously government access only systems. But is there a role for non-government actors, including industry, to deter or prevent travel of criminals, victims of modern slavery, traffickers and terrorists.
The use of OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) is not new and has been used by the military and national intelligence agencies for many years, but advances in AI, communications technology and the growth in the use of social media and communications apps, means that publicly available data can not only help border law enforcement begin to map out and identify linkages in the wider criminal networks behind smuggling and trafficking. But it can also now provide actionable insights to border agents in real time.
How can border and intelligence agencies and their partners in industry cooperate in delivering optimum results from OSINT.