THE INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS & THE REVIEW OF POLICE LINE FUNCTIONS
THE INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
Every police agency and the state immediately should establish and maintain the capability to gather and evaluate information and to disseminate intelligence in a manner that protects every individual’s right to privacy while it curtails organized crime and public disorder.
[1] The state should establish a central gathering, analysis, and storage capability, and intelligence dissemination system.
- Every police agency should actively participate in providing information and receiving intelligence from this system.
- Every police agency should designate at least one person to be responsible for liaison with the state intelligence system.
- The state intelligence system should disseminate specific intelligence to local agencies according to local needs and should disseminate general information throughout the state.
[2] Every local agency should participate, where appropriate, in the establishment of regional intelligence systems. Every regional intelligence system should participate actively in the state system.
[3] Every police agency with more than 75 personnel should have a full-time intelligence capability.
- The number of personnel assigned to this operation should be based on local conditions.
- The intelligence operation should be centralized; however, intelligence specialists may be assigned, where appropriate, to major transportation centers.
- When the size of the intelligence operation permits, organized crime intelligence should be separate from civil disorder intelligence.
- In smaller agencies, the intelligence specialist should be required to take direct enforcement action only where limited agency resources make it absolutely necessary. In larger agencies, the intelligence specialist should be required to take direct enforcement action only where a serious threat to life or property makes it absolutely necessary.
- The intelligence operation should include an independent and well-secured reporting and record system.
[4] Every police agency should ensure the exchange of information and coordination between the intelligence operation and all other operational entities of the agency and with other government agencies.
[5] Every police agency should supply its intelligence operation with the funds, vehicles, vision devices, and other specialized equipment necessary to implement an effective intelligence operation.
METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION
The establishment of a nationwide organized crime council and a nationwide organized crime agency should be considered for funding by the executive and legislative branches with input from local law enforcement officials and an oversight committee to ensure accountability and transparency.
Each department should have an intelligence division or should establish cooperative and contract agreements with each other, larger jurisdictions, such as the Armed Forces or the Bureau of Investigations, and other criminal identification agencies on a local and international scale.
Review of Agency Specialized Police Line Functions
Every police agency which has established specialties should immediately, and thereafter, annually conduct a formal review of each specialty to determine its effectiveness in helping to achieve agency goals and objectives. In conducting this formal review:
[1] Every police chief executive should examine the problem for which the specialty was created and identify any modifications that problem may have undergone in the past year;
[2] Every police chief executive should assess the cost-effectiveness of the specialty over the past year and from that assessment, determine whether the current level of resource commitment to the specialty is adequate or warranted.
[3] Every police chief executive should take the action indicated by the results of the formal annual review of each specialty. This action may include:
- Continuation of the specialization in its present form;
- Adjustment of manpower and equipment allocations based on modifications in the problem of the cost-effectiveness of the specialization.
METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION
Implementation must be made by individual departments.
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