Improving intelligence analysis

Kirby, Stuart; Keay, Scott

doi:10.4324/9781003038047-4

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“…As a prompt, they were provided with three formats of intelligence sharing, influenced by Kirby and Keay (2021), specifically:You always maintain control of your information and only respond to specific requests.You contribute to shared information databases, with specific partners, on specific problems, andPartners have access to your live operational databases (or parts of them) and have permission to interrogate them.…”

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“…, 2008) or confidentiality concerns (Dawes et al. , 2009; Kirby and Keay, 2021). Trust can also be undermined when shared information is not acted upon or the results are not fed back (Feng et al.…”

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“…Kirby and Keay (2021) recently highlighted a range of information sharing approaches. These included: a dedicated co-located multi-agency team (where representatives from partner agencies meet and share their own information, sometimes using bespoke databases); a lead professional model (where a partner representative acts as a coordinating case worker on a partnership issue); and live time integrated information sharing systems (which allow partners to interrogate specific information systems owned by another partner).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The UK, North America and Australia have been affected by different priorities and jurisdictional influences (Carter, 2018), whilst practitioners across the world have been confronted by similar obstacles (Stark, 2016). This includes direction (leaders setting the intelligence objective and parameters); collection and retention (gathering and storing information from a range of overt and covert human and technical sources); analysis and production (interpreting and developing the information into a useable product); and dissemination (legal and ethical distribution of intelligence to relevant people) (Kirby and Keay, 2021, p. 7). As the synthesis of virtual and physical environments has allowed people, money and commodities to travel faster and further than before (Deloitte, 2018; Loubier, 2021), this has increased the potential for crime and avoidance of detection (Kethineni and Cao, 2020; Kirby and Penna, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This information can support accurate and timely intelligence products (i.e. network analysis, market profiles, subject profiles, risk analysis, trends analysis) (Kirby and Keay, 2021, pp. 85–86).…”

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Understanding how law enforcement agencies share information in an intelligence-led environment: how operational context influences different approaches

Phythian,

Kirby,

Swan-Keig

2024

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PurposeThe importance of multi-agency information sharing is recognised as central to tackling crime and disorder in an intelligence-driven environment. However, whilst technology can facilitate and enhance this process, barriers to effective agency information exchange are consistently reported. This paper aims to categorise how information sharing takes place in a law enforcement operational setting and whether there is scope to improve the process.Design/methodology/approachThere were two stages to the method; firstly, a select group of practitioners with intelligence-related experience (n = 28) were interviewed to identify the most common approaches to operational information sharing. This generated a categorisation model, which was tested with a larger group of practitioners (n = 73). A mixed-methods approach was adopted.FindingsThe research found consensus surrounding four different approaches to information sharing, labelled as: (1) inform and request, (2) meet and share, (3) customised database and (4) integrated systems. These are used at various levels of frequency, dependent on the operational context.Originality/valueThis research provides original evidence-based research to show law enforcement practitioners vary in the way they share information. By demystifying and categorising the process, it provides understanding for practitioners, policymakers and researchers, allowing barriers to be more readily tackled in a much more cost-effective manner.

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