DESCRIPTION:
This comprehensive intermediate-level intelligence training program has been developed to provide law enforcement practitioners, who may be engaged in criminal investigations, criminal intelligence assignments, or serving as intelligence liaison officers in affiliation with a regional or state fusion center, with the capability to supervise, support or participate effectively in criminal intelligence functions. The training will focus on specialized skills for developing actionable intelligence products, problem-solving methods and strategies for successfully identifying threats and criminal conspiracies, or advancing complex criminal investigations. Students will participate in practical exercises that follow components of the law enforcement intelligence process/cycle as they develop intelligence findings and products.

The course presents various intelligence practices, techniques and methods relating to three distinct law enforcement intelligence perspectives-collection, analysis and management. Various analytic techniques will be explored including both manual and computerized intelligence processes. Class lecture sessions will be augmented by several exercises and in-class computer-aided information manipulation and Internet research projects.

The curriculum for this course is based on training recommendations contained in the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP). The NCISP is the most comprehensive and widely accepted source of guidance currently available for intelligence operations and training programs in support of law enforcement agency efforts to establish a capacity for intelligence-led policing.



Who Should Attend:

Law enforcement officers, detectives, investigators, intelligence agents, intelligence liaison officers, terrorism liaison officers, watch officers, intelligence supervisors and managers: Individuals from this group may have previously received specialized investigative and/or intelligence training, but this course should enable them to expand and apply their investigative and intelligence skills by enhancing their ability to collect, document and manage information through implementing and pursuing strategies designed to create and apply actionable intelligence-by working in a team with other class participants.

Crime analysts, intelligence analysts, investigative analysts, investigative research specialists, fusion center analysts: Individuals from this group may have previously received specialized analytical and/or intelligence training, but this course should enable them to expand and apply their intelligence and analytic skills by enhancing their ability to collate, analyze and produce actionable intelligence products-by working in a team with other class participants

Course Objectives:

1.      The students will understand the criminal intelligence process and their critical role in it.

2.      The students will understand the legal, ethical, and privacy issues surrounding criminal intelligence.

3.      The students will be provided with information on Internet resources, information sharing systems, networks, and other sources of information.

4.      The students will gain an understanding of the proper handling of criminal intelligence information, including file management and information evaluation.

5.      The students will understand the processes of developing tactical and strategic products and will experience the development of some products.

6.      The students will experience the development of criminal intelligence from information through the critical thinking/inference development process.

7.      The students will work collectively, in a synergistic way, in order to develop a "team approach" to intelligence operations and intelligence-led policing.

8.      The students will leave the course with an expanded comprehension of the interrelated job functions associated with the production and implementation of actionable intelligence.

Course Topics:

·               Contemporary Law Enforcement Intelligence

·               Information Collection

·               Information Management

·               Legal Considerations of Criminal Intelligence

·               Operational Planning for Criminal Intelligence

·               Introduction to Law Enforcement Analysis

·               Role of the Analyst in Law Enforcement Intelligence

·               Critical Thinking and Inference Development

·               Indicator Development

·               Financial Intelligence and Analysis

·               Analytic Techniques and Methods

·               Excel for Analysis

·               Intelligence Reporting

·               Analytic Products and Presentations

·               Computerized Analytic Applications

·               Analysis and Domestic Security

·               Intelligence Products, Resources and Networks

·               Practical Law Enforcement Intelligence Issues