Criminal intelligence

Criminal intelligence is 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. In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment It is particularly useful when dealing with organized crime. "Crime syndicate" redirects here For the DC Comics group of villains see Crime Syndicate. Criminal intelligence is developed by using surveillance, informants, interrogation, and research, or may be just picked up on the "street" by individual police officers. Surveillance is the monitoring of Behavior. Systems surveillance is the process of monitoring the behavior of people objects or processes within systems for conformity Interrogation or questioning is Interviewing as commonly employed by officers of the Police and Military. Research is defined as Human activity based on Intellectual application in the investigation of Matter. Police are agents or agencies usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimatized use of force 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. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. The information collected is usually sorted into different types of law enforcement intelligence. For example, tactical intelligence is used by those units needing the information to make arrests, but other information is so strategic that it only paints a picture after much analysis and confirmation. The information which may be accessible to any officer who needs the information, but usually is disseminated on a need to know basis.

Criminal intelligence analysis focuses on the identification, apprehension and enrollment of offenders into the criminal justice system. Criminal Intelligence Analysts identify investigative leads regarding the relationships between entities of interest and the flow of commodities, money, events, and produce matrices, link charts, flow charts and other analytcial products. The term investigative leads refers to any information which could potentially aid in the successful resolution of the investigation Entities of interest are any physical object article item or person which is the focus of Inquiry. As such, criminal intelligence is a more intense or specific application towards investigations than criminology. Schools of thought In the mid-18th century criminology arose as social philosophers gave thought to crime and concepts of law

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