Jose Perez Alcaraz

Jose Perez Alcaraz

  • Head of Programmes and Innovation for Coastal and Border Surveillance
  • Guardia Civil, Spain

José Pérez Alcaraz is a Senior Officer of the Spanish Guardia Civil, currently serving as Head of SIVE Programme and Technological Innovation Office, within the Border and Custom Command of the Guardia Civil. The so called SIVE (Integrated System for External Surveillance) is the innovative system set in the Spanish coasts some years ago to fight irregular immigration and to early alerts to rescue migrants. He also is in charge of other kind of innovative projects in the field of borders and customs police. Mr Alcaraz previously held other positions of responsibility related to R&D in the field of forensic sciences and institutional communication in different units of Guardia Civil.

Sessions

  • Emerging Trends in Technology at the Border (Government Perspectives)

    All around the world, governments are looking for that next step in technology that will change the border security paradigm, such as stand-off explosive and drug detection or big data analytics. Some technologies are still on the wish list, but some are now very much on the ‘to do’ list!
    One of the biggest drivers in border security going forward will be advent and application of AI, whether it is in enhancing the performance of or automating existing systems, or in analysing terabytes of data.
    But what systems are on the border security wish list and what work is being done in turning those wishes into reality.

  • The METEOR Project. Enhancing Border Security with Innovative Cargo Screening Technology (EU Horizon Project)