Membership Award
The IACA Membership Award was created to honor ANY individual who has made an exceptional contribution to the field of crime and/or intelligence analysis in their unit, agency or community; or exceptional contributions to the IACA in particular.
IACA members will be the deciding vote on the recipient of the award! This is a great way to recognize ANYBODY who has made great contributions to our profession and/or made our Association better and stronger by his or her efforts.
Nominees
Anna Berger
NCR-LinX Project Coordinator
Montgomery County (MD) Police Department
Anna is an enthusiastic professional with over 23 years of law enforcement data, analytics, and training experience who expertly manages the logistics involved with meeting the training needs of more than 200 law enforcement agencies, training investigators, crime analysts, and officers in the use data analytics while ensuring the highest quality of service is delivered with the most accurate and current data possible to help prevent, solve, and stop crime. She's developed very creative and informative lesson plans and detailed training materials for LInX and N-DEx training, to include specialized investigative, administrative and analytical training. Her most recent work is working with Human Trafficking investigators and crime analysts to leverage law enforcement data to combat this crime.
And while she develops training for the National Capital Region, she makes it general enough to be utilized in the other 14 LInX Regions around the country thus saving tons of time and money for all of the regions. It is challenging digging into specific details at a granular level to identify additional information, gain more context, and better understand human trafficking investigations in order to make better decisions both pro-actively and re-actively. Anna has been working with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the sponsor of LInX, along with the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center and others to dive deeper into how to use both structured and non-structured law enforcement data in a variety of ways to help solve crimes, link cases locally, regionally, and nationally, and identify and mitigate threats.
Anna has always been a big proponent of law enforcement information sharing and her work in this area as well as training others in advanced data analysis techniques has been exceptional. Many crimes have been solved because of the regional and national data sharing. And it takes a special type of person, like Anna, to be able to train others in how best to utilize technology that merges structured and unstructured data, enabling existing and new analytical techniques to identify otherwise difficult or impossible data required for critical needs.
Anna has trained thousands of LInX users and the video training she has developed has reached over 45,000 law enforcement users. But her more detailed data analysis work with human trafficking and other specific types of crime helps to generate not just good investigative leads, but also identify previously unknown relationships, and find individuals based on details that can be found in structured and unstructured portions of the report.
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Darin Lee
Intelligence Analyst
Kansas City (MO) Police Department
Darin Lee, an intel analyst with the Kansas City, MO Police Department, was pivotal in solving an almost 40 year missing person case in September 2022. Gwendolyn Robinson went missing in 1983 and left behind a then 2-year-old daughter. In the summer of 2022, her daughter re-filed a missing person case to try to figure out what happened to her mother. The detective exhausted all his leads and enlisted the help of Darin. Darin, being someone who is always good with faces, was able to immediately take a 1980's photo of Robinson and match it up with a digital reconstruction sketch of remains found in 1985 in a nearby jurisdiction. The reconstruction image from the remains was shared with Darin in 2017 and the distinct eyes and jawline of the sketch stuck with Darin and helped make the match with Robinson.
Darin was highlighted in media stories for his work as an intelligence analyst assigned to this case, helping to publicize the critical and often never known work analysts complete. On top of his success with remembering faces, Darin also is instrumental in helping smaller departments nearby with some of the tools Kansas City PD has. ATIs shared across the local metro intel share list are often matched with a possible suspect within minutes by Darin. The best part about Darin's help too, is that it’s not just a name and picture of a possible suspect, he uses his tools and skills as an analyst to help departments with no or just one analyst to confirm the suspect with corroborating details such as vehicles, associates, social media, etc. Darin has been and continues to be a well-respected and integral part of the analyst community not only within his own agency, but also in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
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Britainy Neuman
Investigative Analyst
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Investigations, Dallas, TX
The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) office of Investigations (INV) is proud to nominate Investigative Analyst (IA) Britainy Neuman for the 2023 Membership Award. While the list is long and her experience is vast, there are a few significant and direct impacts to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), TSA, INV, and her profession for which IA Neuman deserves recognition. IA Neuman comes to TSA with an Intelligence Analyst background, having served her country with the Department of Defense (DOD) as a 35F All Source Intelligence Analyst in the United States (US) Army Reserve; attending the US Army Intelligence Center of Excellence in Fort Huachuca, AZ. She expanded into federal law enforcement and supporting DHS and DOJ components working with the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) International Organized Crime Center (IOC-2). In 2016, she joined DHS and has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prior to landing at TSA.
IA Neuman didn’t just bring her experience, she brought her vast networks to enhance TSA’s ability to identify risk, develop actionable-investigative products, and enable the arrest and prosecution of individuals committing crimes within the transportation security sector. Her current position is with TSA Investigations, Dallas Field Office, where she serves as an Investigative Analyst supporting criminal and administrative investigations across the national transportation security sector. Here, she has had numerous large successes both in larger TSA INV processes and individual criminal investigations. She used her ingenuity and creative energy to create a specialized portal used to requisition requests for investigative leads, which resulted in swifter case conclusions. Britainy advises TSA INV Special Agents on which databases may further their investigations and standardized the formatting in which the data is returned to them. These investigations have far-reaching impact on the transportation industry’s ability to safeguard the traveling public and our nation’s transportation security system.
One example of her impact was during a recent search and arrest warrant. IA Neuman routinely joins her team on operations providing direct lines to analytical assistance when needed. After agents entered and secured the house, the interviews of the occupants led to information regarding the location of the subject. The subject was reportedly in-flight, on a commercial air carrier, traveling to a different state. IA Neuman sprang into action. Through diligent analytical work and engaging her inter and intra-agency networks, she located the flight information and confirmed that the subject was onboard. Her diligence and quick work enabled a team of law enforcement officers to affect the arrest of the subject upon landing.
IA Neuman uncovers and develops leads which culminate in the successful arrest and prosecution of those who use the transportation industry for criminal gain. In a case which garnered national recognition, IA Neuman was crucial in identifying a Brazilian subject who had fraudulently purchased the identity of a US citizen. This subject was also employed by an airline and was what is commonly referred to as a Known Crew Member. For over 23 years, he had assumed the identity of a deceased child, received a passport, and obtained employment as a flight attendant under the fraudulently purchased identity. Due to IA Neuman’s assistance, the subject was charged with fraud in the passport application, use of the passport, aggravated identity theft, impersonation of a US citizen and fraudulent entry into a secure space of an airport. IA Neuman’s contributions also led to the identification of risk indicators and vulnerabilities which were used to enhance TSA’s ability to safeguard the traveling public. This type of case was a first for everyone involved and was successful due to the support from IA Neuman.
https://www.businessinsider.com/united-flight-attendant-worked-under-false-identity-for-23- years-2022-1
IA Neuman proactively developed a comprehensive training and program foundation for INV’s investigative analyst unit which is being formed in May of this year. She serves as a resource for TSA INV Special Agents, providing her expertise on which databases may further their investigations and she standardized the formatting in which the data is returned to them. She used her ingenuity and creative energy to create a specialized portal used to requisition requests for investigative leads, which resulted in swifter case conclusions. The program includes initial and recurrent training marks, cross-training and professional development opportunities, and automation and standardization of business processes. The automation and standardization she brought to INV created efficiencies, driving down the time it takes investigators to close their cases. Her efforts are captured as a best practice for the other INV program managers and will be used to create efficiencies across all programs and the field.
IA Neuman continues to make significant contributions to the intelligence community, TSA, and DHS. She readily shares her experience and networks with TSA’s special agents in the field to enhance our collective missions, and her work ethic is unparalleled. TSA Investigations is proud to nominate IA Neuman for her ingenuity, innovation, diligence, and passion for her work and her colleagues.
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Nicholas Reed
Crime and Intelligence Analyst II
City of Modesto (CA) Police Department
I am nominating Nicholas Reed for the IACA Membership Award for his exemplary work and contribution to the Modesto Police Department's (MPD) Criminal Intelligence Unit along with his contributions in helping other Analysts outside of MPD in the Analysis field. Nick worked tirelessly to produce statistical reports beyond those of standard measurements, custom built Dashboards for our Department's Command Staff to easily assess the need for directed enforcement, wrote coding for many of the statistical reports and dashboards, and more.
Nick is our Department expert on ESRI and works closely with ensuring the coding is accurate, thereby ensuring our statistics are accurate. Nick is our lead in training all new Analysts at MPD. To date, he has trained approximately 12 new Analysts and mentored over a dozen college interns in Crime Analysis. Nick is creating reports for our Command Staff and City Leaders for our newly implemented Homeless Outreach Programs, Park Rangers and Mental Health Clinicians riding on patrol.
Nick has been instrumental in tracking their stats along with cost savings to the city and is currently working on measurements for success and techniques that can be Promising Practices and eventually Evidence Based. Nick has been an Analyst for 8 years and has accomplished so much and will continue his relentless drive to improve the field of Crime Analysis.
Please note that only active IACA Members may vote for this award. Voting will close June 3, 2023.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Awards and Recognition Committee at [email protected].
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