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Intelligence Fundamentals for Law Enforcement (formerly "Operational Law Enforcement Intelligence")

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Length: 3 days

Designed For: This course is designed for:  

  • Introductory level training for the law enforcement officer; Supervisor; and/or criminal analyst who maybe or is assigned to an intelligence section of a Law Enforcement Agency or Task Force
  • A secondary audience for this training is the field drug investigator or criminal Investigator who could enhance his/her own investigations by collaborating more closely with an intelligence unit
  • A third audience for this training is an investigator who has not been trained on the various resources and collection and analysis techniques and could merely apply several of the techniques to improve future case outcomes.

Prerequisites: None.

Certification: This course is POST certified in the states of Mississippi and Georgia and accepted for certification in other states.

Description: This three (3) day course provides:

  • Classifications of Intelligence
  • Contemporary Philosophy of Intelligence
  • History of Law Enforcement Intelligence
  • The Intelligence cycle
  • Intelligence collection approaches and strategies
  • Special issues in information collection
  • Analytic techniques for intelligence data and information
  • Legal issues relating to intelligence
  • Technology and computer-related crime
  • Organized Crime: Italian/Sicilian Crime Groups
  • Organized Crime: Status Report and Trends
  • Intelligence resources and networks
  • Intelligence reports and records management


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