Intelligence Principles:

Question 1

Benefits of centralised control (NIC):

Answer 1

• Consistency (Intelligence, products, processes & resources)
• Avoid duplication of effort or gaps
• Mutual support across districts.
• Security of Information

Question 2

Timeliness:

Answer 2

All parts of the Intelligence cycle are executed in a timely fashion to ensure the product arrives for decision makers and staff to better impact on the crime and crash environment.

Question 3

Accessibility:

Answer 3

Should be available to those who need to know.

Question 4

Continuous improvement:

Answer 4

To encourage innovation and improvement in the way business is done (National approach).

Question 5

Strategic & Tactical intelligence:

Answer 5

• Tactical: supports front-line areas, investigation and operation areas to achieve enforcement objectives. Used to facilitate arrests, surveillance, targeting, evidence gathering, POP & disruption of the criminal environment.
• Strategic: Directed achievement of long term objectives Aims to provide understanding, and contributes to broad strategies, policy and resources. Influences operations and planning, long-term deployment, cross agency crime prevention, national and international cooperation.

Question 6

Intelligence Products:

Answer 6

Knowledge Profile:
Problem Profile:
Subject Profile:

Question 7

Knowledge Profile:

Answer 7

Aims to inform decision makers about a topical issue. Can be generated from media concentration, community attention or international trends. Provides situational awareness that requires further intelligence products or provides basic understanding of a problem.

Question 8

Problem Profile:

Answer 8

Focuses on specific policing problems . Includes particular crimes trends, hot locations or commodities, community crime & safety issues. Provides analysis of the problem, recommendations for intelligence, intervention / prevention, enforcement or partner activity.

Question 9

Subject Profile:

Answer 9

Decision Makers: To provide a detailed profile on a identified individual (or group) - offender or victims of disproportionate levels who impact of policing resources. An analysis of threats and actionable recommendations.

Frontline support: To provide frontline staff with a brief overview of an identified individual (or group) - offender or victims of disproportionate levels who impact of policing resources.

Question 10

Real time Intelligence:

Answer 10

Rapid processing of information and dissemination of intelligence within short time frames to support daily tactical & operation decision making and situation awareness.

This allows deployment decisions to maximise impact on the criminal & crash environment.