INTELLIGENCE LED POLICING

Intelligence Led Policing

Intelligence Led Policing

Introduction

National systems articulating the relationship between intelligence from military or police, criminal police and justice are heterogeneous and depend on the history of each country, the seniority of its democracy, relations between the executive, legislative and judicial branches, how to conduct the investigation and rules of procedure in court, and the autonomy (or not) granted by the politicians to the police, and services military intelligence are. It also adds the presence or absence of a national intelligence services doing work, and used to working internationally with their counterparts.

The terms of democratic control over the activities of intelligence services also vary greatly. Almost all countries, with the notable exception of France, chose control procedures of external type, or by judges or by specially accredited members in these functions. These terms are often considered insufficient, given the capacity of these services to be surrounded by secrecy, and the difficult boundary between state interests and the interests of a particular government or a political group when they are not private interests. This paper deals with the origin and concept of intelligence led policing, its obstacles, analysis of the computer applications involved, return on investments and sustainability in future.

Concept of Intelligence Led Policing

The concept of intelligence-led policing widely used recently has little meaning outside the context of British (and American). It developed as McGuire in connection with the development of databases and the ability to manage large data streams, with profiling techniques to individuals and especially groups with particular characteristics (McGuire 2000). The United States has been a leader in this area of the 1970s and made it a priority to the fight against drugs by developing common platforms between FBI, DEA and INR. In the European Union, the United Kingdom followed and made a concept for the existence of a National Crime Intelligence Strategy overlooking the local police. But elsewhere the term has not made a fortune. Make the font from the intelligence is either a truism, one evening a serious challenge to the role of the magistrate, according to the extent that it gives the term intelligence (Heaton, 2000).

Intelligence-Led Policing Origins

The intelligence led policing was first witnessed in United Kingdom and after that it flourished in Australia, where it proved an efficient method of solving criminal problems. One of the former UK police officer is mainly responsible for bringing the concept of ILP. The ILP states that, all the law enforcement agencies should have some sort of intelligence apparatus through which they can analyze criminal information and the identification of the problems faced by the citizens in their environment. After collecting this important information, the commanding officer is then expected to design a strategy to overcome these criminal problems and issues (Tilley, 2003).

One could argue that in such places as the UK and Australia, ILP has succeeded because those countries possess large, regional police agencies. In such locales, analysts push out analysis and threat assessments to commanders, who then render decisions based on that ...