The Office of the Chief Scientist in the Ministry of Public Security is always interested in the topics listed below.

We invite experts to carry out projects in these topics and/or to share with us the information that they have accumulated regarding the above topics and which could be relevant to Israel's law enforcement and public security system.

All inquiries can be addressed to:

The Office of the Chief Scientist
Ministry of Public Security
P.O. Box 18182
Jerusalem 91181 Israel

List of topics of general interest to the Office of the Chief Scientist:

• Alternatives to imprisonment/detention
• Multi-cultural policing
• The image of the future police officer and prison guard
• Police officer and prison guard training
• Repression and post-trauma responses among members of rescue teams and operational forces
• The human factor in traffic accidents
• The use of street video cameras as a means of crime prevention
• Judgment and medicine in visual communication (VC) processes
• Sidewalk police mini-stations: Improvement in police services to citizens
• Methods for traffic control and multi-target follow-up
• Robots in the war on terrorism and crime
• Remote-control identification of explosive materials
• Automatic transcription of texts: Voice/picture to text
• Instrumentation for the location and discovery of pockets of air in walls and loors
• Discovery of concealed passengers in vehicles
• Overall security – "Hindering obstacles"
• Planning and design of modern prisons
• Discovery of objects in the human body
• Discovery of explosive materials and weapons carried by persons or in vehicles