Law Enforcement Intelligence Its Evolution and Scope Today by Robert A. Smith S ocieties rely on intelligence to reduce uncer - tainty and support decisions affecting their security and survival. 1
A comprehensive history of law enforcement intelligence in America can be found in Carter, D. L. (2009). Law Enforcement Intelligence: A Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies , 2d ed. (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services).
For too long, American law enforcement has relied on gut intuition and reactive policing to address crime. Intelligence-led policing reverses this mind-set and provides a structured process for anticipatory crime mitigation through the collection and analysis of information. Law enforcement must do more with less.
The growth of intelligence practices in SLT agencies has coincided with an increasing acknowledgement within federal law enforcement, and in some instances the intelligence community, of the importance of state, local, and tribal law enforcement for enhancing the value of intelligence related to terrorism.
state and local law enforcement agencies to ―follow the money‖ that leads to criminal organizations and their financial schemes around the world. Business information and intelligence provides a critical data layer to ILP that enables law enforcement to allocate resources more effectively in the fight against crime.
Intelligence-led policing (often shortened to ILP) is a practice that leverages technological advances in both data collection and analytics to generate valuable “intelligence” that can be used to more efficiently direct law enforcement resources to the people and places where they are likely to do the most good.
(a) The purpose of gathering police intelligence is to identify individuals or groups of individuals in an effort to anticipate, prevent, or monitor possible criminal activity.
Title: Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis. Definition: A program focusing on the preparation of law enforcement personnel to perform intelligence and surveillance operations and to analyze and use data collected via such operations.
Strategic intelligence examines crime patterns and crime trends for. management use in decision making, resource development, resource. allocation, and policy planning. While similar to crime analysis, strategic. intelligence typically focuses on specific crime types, such as criminal.
Criminal intelligence is information compiled, analyzed, and disseminated in an effort to anticipate, prevent, or monitor criminal activity (DOJ, IACP). It is particularly useful to deal with organized crime.
Intelligence-led policing gathers domestic incidents, arrests, criminal records, traffic stops, and gang activity, and allows law enforcement to run analytics against those data. These analytics help law enforcement identify offenders who are more likely to be repeat offenders of a particular crime or group of crimes.
Many criminologists have written about the relationship between intelligence and crime, often finding an inverse relationship between the two. That is, criminologists have found individuals with a below-average IQ are more likely to commit a criminal offense than higher-IQ individuals.
Hence, the three activities of CI are: protection of information against espionage; protection of personnel against subversion; and protection of installations and material against sabotage.
The intelligence process is a continuous process of collecting and converting data into intelligence products to be integrated into operations. The process consists of several phases with continuous evaluation and feedback at each phase and at the end of the process.
Intelligence allows law enforcement officers to know and choose the most appropriate criminal threats. In such a manner, they are able to efficiently manage their resources, budget, and meet their crime prevention objectives.
There are three types of crime analysis: administrative, strategic, and tactical.
To this end, education on the concept of intelligence-led policing (ILP) at the local, state, federal, and international level is essential for dealing with current dangers. Today’s highly globalized and interconnected world has not only helped economies grow and facilitated the ease of global commerce but also allowed threats to morph ...
Information becomes intelligence via the intelligence cycle. At its fundamental level, the cycle is a structured process in which professionals identify intelligence requirements and gaps, develop a plan for collection and production, carry out collection to fill the gaps, refine and organize the collected information, ...
The FBI National Academy (NA) is a joint educational program conducted with the University of Virginia for sponsored local, state, federal, and international law enforcement managers. 2 Among the courses offered, one centers on teaching police executives ILP and the effective implementation of a related program in any agency.
A Different Approach. ILP is a proactive way of thinking in law enforcement. It acts as a business process in which agencies implement policies and practices. They focus on developing priorities built on multiple factors, including intelligence analysis. With these priorities in mind, personnel develop intelligence requirements;
Law enforcement faces an ever-evolving threat landscape that requires executives and personnel to identify, prioritize, and mitigate many cross-jurisdictional threats. This effort necessitates updated technology to collect, house, and analyze data. It also calls for training centered on the implementation of programs that enable executives to make the best decisions possible regarding risks.
In its most basic form, intelligence is information that has gone through a systematic process of collection, evaluation, exploitation, analysis, and synthesis, with the goal of reducing uncertainty and providing decision advantage. Law enforcement intelligence is “the product of an analytic process that provides an integrated ...
Once organized, the data enters the analytical phase, in which intelligence professionals review it and use structured analytic techniques to develop and refute multiple hypotheses based on the collected information. They evaluate sources for reliability, credibility, and relevance and formulate judgments to answer the original questions.
Law enforcement “methods of investigation,”. 7. are similar to the “intelligence cycle/process” in that the criminal investigator collects information and uses critical thinking and reasoning skills to determine what, when, where, by whom, why and how a crime occurred.
The NCISP was designed to ensure all law enforcement agencies, regardless of size or jurisdiction, have an intelligence capability. 22. Today state and local law .
ocieties rely on intelligence to reduce uncer. - tainty and support decisions affecting their security and survival. 1. Both national security intelligence and law enforcement intelligence have assumed greater importance in our globalized and interconnected world where threats can be measured in terms of hours, minutes and seconds.
As early as the 1870s, law enforcement intelligence activities were utilized to prevent and control crime and violence. 14. By 1880, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had an intelligence capability, when “intelligence gathering became an organized enterprise” [in the Detective Bureau]. 15.
The largest federal agency is the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within DHS with 36,863 federal officers/investigators. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), also in DHS, is the fourth largest federal agency with 12,466 federal officers/investigators.