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Virtual Conference: A Structure for Effective Intelligence Analysis In Local Law Enforcement
Thursday, July 13, 2023, 10:00 AM EDT
Category: Training

Join us for the next session in this year's FREE Virtual Conference!

A Structure for Effective Intelligence Analysis In Local Law Enforcement

  • When? July 13th, 2023 @ 1000 ET
  • How much? FREE for all attendees
  • Register here!
  • This webinar WILL be recorded
The emergence of Intelligence Units across the country can present a challenge for law enforcement analysts trying to understand their role in their department’s intelligence mission. The Fishers Police Department (FPD) Intel Unit is offering a possible best practice for establishing an effective intelligence-led policing operation that leverages crime and intelligence analytic skills of law enforcement analysts. Conducting criminal intelligence at a local level is not a one-size fits all approach. FPD has 125+ officers that serve a population nearing 100,000 residents; however, there are benefits and applications in this training that will prove to also be helpful for small rural departments, as well as large metropolitan departments.
This session will address the very basics of intelligence as a deliberate cognitive technique and its application in law enforcement and the world around us. It provides a detailed look at creating intelligence using critical thinking techniques and leveraging crime analytics to bolster your intelligence process. This training defines how the Intelligence Cycle can be implemented at a local level and identifies clear roles in the process for all members of the PD, particularly the analyst’s role. The FPD Intel Unit employs a threat focused structure to accomplish its’ intel mission by assigning 3 civilian intel analysts to run their own Threat Desk. Analysts are encouraged to use their unique analytic skills and abilities to determine how to best apply tactical and strategic intelligence to accomplish their Threat Desk’s mission. The Threat Desks include Larceny, Public Threat, and Narcotics. These threats were established through the planning and direction of command staff and what is believed to be the most prominent threats facing Fishers that intelligence can be an effective tool to combat. This training will detail each Threat Desk’s mission, the threat streams they monitor, and the sources and processes used to proactively provide Fishers with actionable intelligence on issues such as organized crime, school threats, officer safety, outlaw motorcycle gangs, overdoses, emerging drug trends and more. In addition, this instruction will discuss the methods the Fishers PD Intel Unit uses to communicate its’ intelligence. Oral briefings, intelligence reports, strategic threat assessments, and tactical alerts are some of the ways intelligence is shared at FPD. Examples of these products and the reasoning behind what type of product is chosen will be discussed. A general message from this session will be what the overall objective of intelligence is in law enforcement. This objective is to develop a police force that is as knowledgeable and informed as possible regarding the threats in their areas of operation. The ability to conduct this intelligence is dependent on the ability to effectively collect information. An Intel Unit cannot effectively collect information without “collectors” knowing the intel mission and what information is needed.
To that end, this 90-minute training has been conducted several times over the past 6 months, including to the entire Fishers Police Department’s 125+ officers, as well as other analysts, intel officers and command staff from surrounding agencies. This training serves not only as a possible best practice for other agencies, but as part of fulfilling the FPD Intel task of informing as many agencies as possible of the Threat Desks’ intel missions to continue to build a network of national and regional partners with similar focuses.

Seating is limited to the first 1000 attendees. For further details on recording, certificates/CEUs and other registration info, please visit this page. Registration is now open!

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