NCJ Number
223009
Date Published
2008
Length
278 pages
Annotation
This book explains and discusses the concepts and processes of intelligence-led policing.
Abstract
The author's central argument is that intelligence-led policing is a business model and managerial philosophy where data analysis and crime intelligence are pivotal to an objective, decisionmaking framework that facilitates crime reduction, disruption, and prevention through both strategic management and effective enforcement strategies that target prolific and serious offenders. The first two chapters review the origins and development of intelligence-led policing, tracing it to a proactive approach for combating persistent local and organized crime. In establishing the need for intelligence-led policing, chapter 3 outlines the challenge facing the police and the criminal justice system, which is to address persistent, habitual offenders while moving away from a reactive to a proactive model of crime control. Chapter 4 compares intelligence-led policing with existing conceptual models of policing, explaining how it complements some of the other models, especially problem-oriented policing. Chapter 5 explores some of the conceptual analytical models of policing: the intelligence cycle, SARA, and the British National Intelligence Model. The chapter concludes with an outline of the "3-i model," a conceptual model of intelligence-led policing. Chapter 6 examines the role of the analyst in selecting targets for police interdiction, and chapter 7 examines the interface between analysts and decisionmakers in basing departmental policy on data collection and analysis. Chapter 8 discusses crime prevention and the "disruption" of organized crime networks. Chapter 9 presents the United Kingdom's Operation Anchorage as an example of intelligence-led policing. It was a burglary-reduction operation that used informants and surveillance to target habitual offenders and managerial decisionmaking in directing resources and selecting targets. Chapter 10 explores the potential for intelligence-led policing to be the binding agent in linking local crime concerns with the widening security agenda at the national level. Chapter summaries and notes, 380 references, and a subject index