NIM

Question 1

Level 2

Answer 1

Cross border issues affecting more than one district within a force or affecting another force or regional crime activity and usually requiring additional resources.

Question 2

Level 3

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Under intelligence-led policing what are the 4 assets required to ensure the NIM process works effectively?

Answer 3

1. Knowledge assets
2. System assets
3. Source assets
4. People assets

Question 4

NIM:

Knowledge assets

Answer 4

Knowing the business of policing and understanding law, policy and guidance.

Question 5

NIM:

System assets

Answer 5

Having appropriate systems and structures in place, including secure environments and practices.

Question 6

NIM:

Source assets

Answer 6

Ensuring information is effectively gathered and managed from as many sources as possible.

Question 7

NIM:

People assets

Answer 7

Establishing a professional personnel structure with trained and suitably skilled staff to carry out the required functions within the model.

Question 8

Definition:

Signal crime

Answer 8

Any criminal incident that causes a change in the public’s behaviour and/or beliefs about their security.

Question 9

What are the 3 ways information enters the organisation as information sources?

Answer 9

1. Tasked collection
2. Routine collection
3. Volunteered information

Question 10

Under NIM what is ‘Tasked collection’?

Answer 10

It is deliberately sought out and collected.

Question 11

Under NIM what is ‘Routine collection’?

Answer 11

It is collected as a result of another policing activity.

Question 12

Under NIM what is ‘Volunteered collection’?

Answer 12

It is information given to the police.

Question 13

In dealing with information sources what are the 4 considerations that are needed?

Answer 13

1. Open & closed source information i.e. Public access information and structured police systems.
2. Information management.
3. Sanitation and risk assessment processes.
4. Compliance with DPA and Human Rights Ct 1998

Question 14

Name the four intelligence products under NIM.

Answer 14

1. Strategic assessments
   2 Tactical assessments
2. Target profiles
3. Problem profiles

Question 15

Definition of INFORMATION

Answer 15

Information refers to all forms of information obtained, recorded or processed by the police, including personal data and intelligence.

Question 16

Definition of INTELLIGENCE

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

What is an INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENT?

Answer 17

Within the intelligence process, the identified gap between what is known and what is not, forms the intelligence requirement.

Question 18

What are the 5 elements of the Intelligence Cycle?

Answer 18

1. Direction
2. Collection
3. Evaluation
4. Analysis
5. Dissemination

Question 19

Direction under the Intelligence Cycle means

Answer 19

Deciding what is to be monitored and analysed

Question 20

Collection under the Intelligence Cycle means

Answer 20

Obtaining raw information

Question 21

Evaluation under the Intelligence Cycle means

Answer 21

Refining and analysing the information

Question 22

Analysis under the Intelligence Cycle means

Answer 22

Data has been processed and translated into a finished product which includes integrating, collating, evaluating and analysing all the data

Question 23

Dissemination under the Intelligence Cycle means

Answer 23

Providing results of processing to the intelligence community.

Question 24

Under the management of risk what should be considered?

Answer 24

1. Public
2. Physical
3. Psychological
4. Legal
5. Ethical
6. Moral

Question 25

Level 1

Answer 25

Local crime & disorder being managed at a local/district level