Understanding Police Intelligence Work

✍ Scribed by Adrian James

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although police intelligence is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it remains a human activity. This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used wisely and ethically to influence policing policy and practice. After explaining the basic tenets of intelligence, the author, who has extensive experience in the field, critically examines the development of intelligence structures and governance of contemporary intelligence collection. He goes on to assess the threats and opportunities to policing in the digital age, including the widespread use of social media and the emergence of ‘Big Data’. Part of a new series for students and practitioners designed to reflect the importance of incorporating ‘evidence based policing’ within the curriculum and practice, this much-needed textbook covers not only the technical aspects of intelligence work but also encourages reflexivity in practice.

✦ Table of Contents

UNDERSTANDING POLICE INTELLIGENCE WORK
Contents
Figures
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
1. Fundamentals of intelligence practice
Introduction
Theorising intelligence work
Dimensions of intelligence collection
Summary
2. Intelligence work in context
Intelligence work
Intelligence work in liberal democracies
Intelligence praxis
Professionalising intelligence work
Summary
3. Organisational structures
Introduction
Intelligence framework
The international dimension
The national dimension
Summary
4. The legal and procedural framework
Introduction
Secret policing and human rights
Current legislative regime
Part III Police Act 1997
Watching the watchers
Summary
5. Organisational intelligence processes
Introduction
National Intelligence Model (NIM)
Developing intelligence
Sharing intelligence
Summary
6. Directing intelligence work
Introduction
Directing collection
Directing action
Summary
7. Opportunities and threats in the digital age
Introduction
Big data
Predictive policing
Social media
Summary
8. Intelligence failure
Introduction
Actionable intelligence
Strategic intelligence failure
Tactical intelligence failure
Risk
Summary
9. Taking stock: looking ahead
Introduction
Taking stock
Looking ahead
The last word
Epilogue
References
Index
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