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Intelligence-led Policing
A principal task of the police is to prevent and detect crime rather than simply to react to it.
Intelligence-led policing is a model of policing in which intelligence serves as a guide to operations, rather than the reverse.


Intelligence-led policing involves the collection and analysis of information to produce an intelligence end product designed to inform police decision-making at both the tactical and strategic levels.

In intelligence-led policing information is analyzed and turned into intelligence to locate smaller and more serious crimes that could potentially be committed and to intervene with the potential perpetrators of the crime.
Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE
The word intelligence can be used to describe the process of interpreting information to give it a meaning.
It has also been used to describe a group or department that gathers or deals with such information or to describe the product of such activity or department.
At its simplest, intelligence might be described as processed information.
Narrowed down to law enforcement use, “intelligence” could be described as information that is acquired, exploited and protected by the activities of law enforcement institutions to decide upon and support criminal investigations.
Who is committing crimes, how, when, where, why and what.
intelligence-led policing provide recommendations on how to stop or curb the offences.
As part of this, analysts produce profiles of crime problems and individual subjects, and produce both
Strategic (overall, long-term) and
Tactical (specific, short-term)
assessments within the confines set by the individual police force.
These assessments and profiles are used to both monitor and predict crime, aiming to move policing from "reactionary" investigation to "proactive" investigation.
Analysts look for links between a wide variety of intelligence sources to work out what is going on, and make recommendations on how to stop it.
This is done at all levels, from local police stations dealing with town issues, to whole county crime, regional crime and beyond.