Intro to Intel Flashcards
Information:
Refers to all forms of information obtained, recorded or processed by Police, including personal data.
Intelligence:
Is processed information that can be acted upon.
Positive information:
Reinforces an understanding of a particular concept or opinion. It explains, supports a predicted activity.
Negative information:
Refutes a particular concept or understanding, it confirms or negates an absence of activity.
3 effects of intelligence:
People: Intelligence Section Staff
Process: Outcomes resulting from the application of the Intelligence cycle .
Product: Actionable end product of the intelligence process.
Intelligence Operating Strategy: Supporting prevention
Deployment to the five drivers of Crime Prepare for planned events Work with partner agencies Maintain a prevention mindset Think Crime Triangle
Deployment to the five drivers of Crime
- Target active offenders
- Constant scanning of crime and crash environment to identify opportunities for action, advise key decision makers
- Maximise forensic intelligence opportunities
- Use Intel products to understand trends & patterns in the crime and crash environment - set priorities at T & C meeting
- Encourage staff to submit quality notings
- Use VOLT
- Intel is needed to support tactical interventions (short-term) and longer term strategic treatments
- Use a range of Intel products to solve persistent problems over an extended time frame.
Prepare for planned events:
- Prioritise event 3 - 6 months ahead to enable planning and resource allocation decision.
- Know how a Joint Intelligence Group operates for major events
- Maximise the RIOD platform to deliver timely intelligence
Work with Partner Agencies:
- Develop jointly-owned Intel products (JOIP) with key partners
- Share partners available knowledge & resources to support joint priorities
- Build cross agency capacity and capability by sharing Intel skills, resource and knowledge
- Explore opportunities for joint problem-solving with partners
Maintain a prevention mindset:
- Timely Intel to support DCC
- Forward looking Intel products to time, effort and interventions (prevention first)
- Linked Intel with CCI components to inform deployment
- Act with urgency ‘real time’ to address VOLT
Think Crime Triangle:
•Victims, Offenders, Locations, Trends (VOLT)
10 steps to intelligence and effective policing:
- Supportive leaders
- Intelligence-informed Policing
- Integrated crime & crash analysis
- Focus on prolific offenders
- Training
- Strategic & Tactical tasking meetings
- Reduction of routine investigation
- Complete reliable Intel products that influence decision-makers
- Appropriate use of prevention, disruption and enforcement
- Intelligence is actionable
- Supportive leaders
Enthusiastic leaders who endorses intelligence-informed policing for strategic decision-making.
- Intelligence-informed Policing
Should be directed at, complement and support the whole function. (not applied in specialised groups).
- Integrated crime & crash analysis
Analysts working at the hub of operational policing activities in direct support of decision-makers.
- Focus on prolific offenders
Identification of and targeting of criminal leaders and offenders at a strategic level as a priority. Urgency around key threats.
- Training
Support and training is targeted to the analyst, collection staff and education of the leadership roles within Intel-informed Policing.
- Strategic & Tactical tasking meetings:
Tactical responses should be grounded in strategic priorities. Strategic meetings should allow decision makers to consider more opinion and considered prevention, enforcement and information gathering options.
- Reduction of routine investigation
Shift from reactive policing (through early case closure) creates proactive targeted prevention work.
- Complete, reliable Intel products that influence decision-makers
Robust data systems which decision-makers trust and believe adds value to their resource allocation decisions.
- Appropriate use of prevention, disruption and enforcement
Strategies drawn from POP suggest a number of prevention opportunities.
- Intelligence is actionable
Management must exist to action intelligence products. Action & resource allocation is the primary function of the impact arm of 3i model.
Interpreting the criminal environment:
Intel needs reliable information to identify actual and perceived crime and crash problems. Intel uses information to develop Intel products that identify patterns in crime and crash, and suggesting practical ways to disrupt them. This requires in-depth situational awareness.
Influencing decision makers:
Discussion between Intel and decision makers about the relevant products is essential to the 3i model. Decision makers must set clear direction and priority requests for products generated from tasking and coordination meetings
3i & FIO’s:
FIO collects information from and about the criminal environment, interpreting what is occurring within the realm. This information is used to develop an understanding of the environment which is conveyed to decision makers.
