Criminal intelligence is information compiled, analyzed, and/or disseminated in an effort to anticipate, prevent, or monitor criminal activity.[1][2][3][4]
The United States Army Military Police Corps defines criminal intelligence as information gathered or collated, analyzed, recorded/reported and disseminated by law enforcement agencies concerning types of crime, identified criminals and known or suspected criminal groups.[5]
It is particularly useful to deal with organized crime. Criminal intelligence is developed by using surveillance, informants, interrogation, and research, or it may be just picked up on the "street" by individual police officers.
Some larger law enforcement agencies have a department, division or section specifically designed to gather disparate pieces of information and develop criminal intelligence. One of the most effective ways of applying criminal intelligence is first to record it (store in a computer system), which can be "mined" (searched) for specific information.
- ^ "Department of Justice (DOJ), National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (2003)" (PDF). fas.org.
- ^ "International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Criminal Intelligence Sharing: A National Plan for Intelligence-Led Policing At the Local, State and Federal Levels (2002)" (PDF). ncirc.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-27.
- ^ International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) National Law Enforcement Policy Center (2003). Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Criminal intelligence analysis". Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
- ^ "Field Manual (FM) 3–19.50 – Police Intelligence Operations (2006)". rdl.train.army.mil. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20.
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