Some 150 police chiefs and academics from around the world are gathering in Dublin today and tomorrow for a conference on hosted by An Garda Síochána.
The event, entitled Investigative Forensic Psychology, has drawn delegates from law enforcement agencies and universities in Ireland, Europe, Canada and the United States.
Experts will give presentations on criminal profiling, behavioural analysis, forensic psychology and offences against children, among other issues.
Those at the event in Clontarf Castle will also discuss investigative interviewing and the international experience of forensic psychology in the analysis of serious crime.
They will also attend seminars on the use of the ViCLAS system, a computerised serious crime analysis tool recently acquired by the Garda.
Officers from the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation are attending the conference, which was opened this morning by Assistant Commissioner Martin Callinan.