Info and intel Flashcards
What is information?
Information is the very life blood of policing. It may be original and generated by you; it may come from the public or other officers, or be fed to you by partner agencies and other sources.
Where does information come from?
Internal: directly/indirectly obtained information. test purchases police intelligence database PND. social networking sites open sources supervisors specialist department. External: Partner agencies House to house enquiries Policy: Force policy CPS guidelines.
Intelligence…
Is information concerning incidents, events or people which is subject to a system of processing: it is not necessarily evidence.
NIM - National Intelligence Model
Level 1 - neighbourhood and BCU - local intelligence - local intel unit - local intelligence officer (LIO)
Level 2 - force and neighbouring forces - regional intelligence - force intelligence bureau - Field intelligence office (FIO)
Level 3 - national and international - national intelligence - national crime agency - single point of contact (SPOC)
The intelligence cycle
Direction / Collection / Evaluation / Analysis / Dissemination.
3x5x2
3 - reliable / untested / not reliable - the possible grading’s for this part of the assessment
5 - a. known directly to the source. b. known indirectly to the source but corroborated. c. known indirectly to the source. d. not known. e. suspected to be false - there is a need to accurately evaluate the reliability of each piece of information.
2. p lawful sharing permitted. c lawful sharing permitted with conditions. The two handling codes which can be selected from the drop down menu are:
What is sanitation?
Sanitation of information occurs when material is removed which explicitly or implicitly identifies a source. It also occurs when identifying details of a data subject are removed. This process will be undertaken by the intelligence unit prior to the dissemination or inputting onto an intelligence system.
What is best practice?
All intelligence must be accurately reported.
Care must be taken to remove from the text all material that in any way identifies the source.
Repeat intelligence from the same source could lead to the sources identification.
The timing and place of meetings with sources may be relevant and could lead to the source being identified.
What is provenance?
Provenance allows the source of intelligence to be protected in order to avoid any unnecessary risks to them.
What are the government security classifications?
Official / Secret / Top Secret
PND Searches…
PND searches operate on 4 areas that give structure to the speed and quality of the information that can be searched: People Objects Location Events.
Sharing information outside the police services…
Statutory obligation - a specific legal obligation or requirement to disclose police information to another party.
Statutory power - a specific legal power, but not an obligation to share police information with another party.
Common law - if there is no statutory obligation or power to share information then a common law policing purpose must be established.
