Intelligence-Led Policing

Learning Task: Week 1- What are the factors that have favored the emergence of Intelligence Led Policing (ILP)? Use the chronology of policing models given by Ratcliffe as a guide (i.e., contrast what is similar and different about ILP from the major policing models).

Intelligence-led policing is a decision-making strategy that analyzes criminal intelligence as an objective decision-making tool that facilitates crime prevention and reduction through effective and efficient policing strategies and external partnership projects drawn from an evidential base. Intelligence-led policing is mainly based on four distinct elements, and the first is that it targets the offenders, especially by targeting the active criminals through covert and overt means. The other element is managing the hotspots and crimes (Ratcliffe, 2008). The third element is investigating the liked series of incidents and crimes. The last one is applying preventive measures, which include working with local partnerships to reduce disorder and crime. Intelligence-led policing has been promoted by several factors. The first is the rise of criminal activities around the globe. Policing is vital since it helps identify crime reduction strategies based on solid evidential support (Ratcliffe, 2008). The intelligence-led policing applies criminal intelligence analysis as an objective decision-making tool that will be vital in facilitating crime reduction and prevention. The support it gets from the government is the other essential factor. It helps it develop more effective policing strategies and external partnership projects based on the evidential base.

Ratcliffes chronology of policing models includes interpreting, influencing, and impacting. For policing to be made, its influence on the nation and other places must be assessed. Their influence must be positive, and it must benefit most people. Moreover, it must also significantly impact the people and be positively interpreted for its benefits to be used correctly (Ratcliffe, 2008). The similar part of all these models is that they benefit most people and show that if their consequences are more optimistic, people are expected to have more positive results in crime reduction. The difference in these models is that crime-intelligence analysis is the central decision-making in intelligent-led policy and helps shape a criminal environment based on its influence.

Learning Task: Week 2 - Ratcliffe argues that 9/11 had a galvanizing effect on US policing, which rapidly embraced ILP after the terrorist attack. In the light of the Demonising Intelligence section of the text, what do you think the long-term outcome will be for the intelligence-led approach? How can misconduct of the past be prevented?

The 9/11 attacks led to the creation of the Homeland Security era, which was considered a kind of intelligence-led policing. The approach was created after the terrorist attack by the Department of Homeland Security, and it was caused by numerous calls for police agencies in the United States of America. Its sole aim was to build global partnerships and increase the way information was shared in the domestic arena. The IACP helped a Criminal Intelligence Sharing Summit in the Spring of 2002 from the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Intelligence Working Group (GIWG). It led to the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (Ratcliffe, 2008). If the plan existed before the tragic 9/11 events could have been prevented, but this never occurred. The theme plans that there is a need to overcome the substantial and long-standing barriers to hinder intelligence sharing. The response has led to the...…is against deviant behavior, which states that this behavior is a constructive part of the community since it brings different parts of society together. Deviance helps demarcate the limitations to acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, which helps affirm people of their norms and values. Deviant behavior throws off social balance, and society has to adjust to the social standards related to restoring the balance. ILP helps eliminate these deviant behaviors and ensures the community is safe for everyone.

Learning Task: Week 5- DIKI is the acronym for Data, Information, Knowledge, and Intelligence. What is your understanding of the terms Information and Knowledge? In your own words, what distinguishes the two concepts? If helpful, use an example.

DIKI is an acronym that means Data, Information, Knowledge, and Intelligence, and these terms are essential in knowledge and intelligence. The acronym is vital in ensuring that the people gain justice. Data and information are necessary among the people since they know more about their status and security. The nations also get the correct information on the state of their security and that of the government (Ratcliffe, 2008). Knowledge and intelligence are essential since they determine the actions that are supposed to be taken against the insecurity updates. Reality is different from what is reported. Knowledge is considered the following information stage and solves any information and data management challenges (Ratcliffe, 2008). DIKI and information and knowledge are two different concepts. DIKI looks at the process from when someone gets information, interprets it, reports it, and concludes that information and knowledge involve what people know about a particular thing. The model can take many shapes and meanings of information and data but helps people understand and…