The Governing Rules of Criminal Intelligence & Information Analysis
Keywords:
Criminal Intelligence , Security Analyst, Visual Analysis of Information, Tactical Analysis of Information, Strategic Analysis of Information , Surveillance SystemsSynopsis
The book discusses the governing rules of criminal intelligence and information analysis. It demonstrates how these rules are necessary for supporting law enforcement operations at all levels (operational, tactical, and strategic). The professional response to complex crimes committed by criminal groups is particularly highlighted. This response includes collection, evaluation, and classification of the obtained information by using the analytical tools that integrate, interpret, and analyze the gathered information. Accordingly, high-quality inferences may be produced, developed, and disseminated for enabling the security decision maker to encounter the third millennium criminals.
The book is prepared for the information analysis specialists, in addition to the professionals who have recently worked in this security field. It means that the security analyst should be acquainted with the recent usages of computers and their applications and should have the ability to handle the vast and huge amount of information and databases. Moreover, the security analyst should be able to utilize the Geographical Information System (GIS) for crime mapping. Accordingly, he can:
Identify the geographical location of hot spots and cesspools of crime
Produce maps and charts that illustrate:
- The development of field conditions and qualitative and quantitative trends of crime
- The seasonal cycle in crime and its statistical representation on daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly bases
Measure the changes in levels and types of crime and crime displacement processes. Hence, the criminal activity within a specific community can be highlighted and its future development and trends can be predicted.
The book is divided into four chapters. The first chapter describes:
• The fundamentals of sciences of intelligence analysis of information on the criminal level
• The recent developments in this discipline.
• The advancement in communication techniques and transformation from the old approach to the new one for analyzing information
• The skills necessary for handling the huge amount of raw data to be optimally utilized through professional processing and analysis
• The criminal intelligence process and its work dynamic
The second chapter elucidates the governing rules of criminal intelligence by indicating various topics that can be prioritized as follow:
• The intelligence operations characteristics
• The work essence of the security analyst
• The increasing dependence on the approach of visual analysis of information
• The basic levels of analysis, the analysis cycle, and many other important topics
The third chapter explores:
• The tactical analysis of information by highlighting the operational aspect in the intelligence analysis of information
• The types of tactical analysis of information
• The importance of surveillance system downloading
• The information sharing and exchange
• The methods of response to complex crimes
• The management and analysis of interviews for inference and investigation procedures
The fourth chapter shows the strategic analysis of information. It highlights:
• The information analysis suitability to crime fighting strategies
• The preventive role of the security analysis of information
• The development of indicators for the strategic analysis topics
• The operations of strategic analysis of crime
• Examples for analyzing the markets of illicit drug trafficking
