NIM Flashcards
Level 2
Cross border issues affecting more than one district within a force or affecting another force or regional crime activity and usually requiring additional resources.
Level 3
Serious & organised crime usually operating on a national and international scale, requiring identification by proactive means and a response primarily through targeted operations by dedicated units.
It is also likely to require a preventative response on a national basis.
Under intelligence-led policing what are the 4 assets required to ensure the NIM process works effectively?
- Knowledge assets
- System assets
- Source assets
- People assets
NIM:
Knowledge assets
Knowing the business of policing and understanding law, policy and guidance.
NIM:
System assets
Having appropriate systems and structures in place, including secure environments and practices.
NIM:
Source assets
Ensuring information is effectively gathered and managed from as many sources as possible.
NIM:
People assets
Establishing a professional personnel structure with trained and suitably skilled staff to carry out the required functions within the model.
Definition:
Signal crime
Any criminal incident that causes a change in the public’s behaviour and/or beliefs about their security.
What are the 3 ways information enters the organisation as information sources?
- Tasked collection
- Routine collection
- Volunteered information
Under NIM what is ‘Tasked collection’?
It is deliberately sought out and collected.
Under NIM what is ‘Routine collection’?
It is collected as a result of another policing activity.
Under NIM what is ‘Volunteered collection’?
It is information given to the police.
In dealing with information sources what are the 4 considerations that are needed?
- Open & closed source information i.e. Public access information and structured police systems.
- Information management.
- Sanitation and risk assessment processes.
- Compliance with DPA and Human Rights Ct 1998
Name the four intelligence products under NIM.
- Strategic assessments
2 Tactical assessments - Target profiles
- Problem profiles
Definition of INFORMATION
Information refers to all forms of information obtained, recorded or processed by the police, including personal data and intelligence.
Definition of INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence is defined as information that has been subject to a defined evaluation and risk assessment process in order to assist with police decision making.
What is an INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENT?
Within the intelligence process, the identified gap between what is known and what is not, forms the intelligence requirement.
What are the 5 elements of the Intelligence Cycle?
- Direction
- Collection
- Evaluation
- Analysis
- Dissemination
Direction under the Intelligence Cycle means
Deciding what is to be monitored and analysed
Collection under the Intelligence Cycle means
Obtaining raw information
Evaluation under the Intelligence Cycle means
Refining and analysing the information
Analysis under the Intelligence Cycle means
Data has been processed and translated into a finished product which includes integrating, collating, evaluating and analysing all the data
Dissemination under the Intelligence Cycle means
Providing results of processing to the intelligence community.
Under the management of risk what should be considered?
- Public
- Physical
- Psychological
- Legal
- Ethical
- Moral
