A criminal network does not care where one police force boundary ends and another begins. A fraud group operating from London may move money through accounts elsewhere in England, use infrastructure in…
Category: Criminal Intelligence
Applying Network Analysis to Complex Criminal Intelligence Cases
Complex criminal networks rarely look complicated from the outside. A police team may initially see a handful of suspects, several phone numbers, a few companies, vehicles, addresses, bank accounts, and seemingly unrelated…
Evaluating Source Reliability in Criminal Intelligence Reporting
One bad piece of intelligence can send an investigation in completely the wrong direction. A source may provide the wrong name. An anonymous tip may repeat a rumor. A social media post…
Integrating Intelligence Assessments Into Criminal Investigations
Criminal investigations rarely begin with a complete picture. Investigators usually start with fragments: witness reports, incident records, intelligence submissions, CCTV, phone data, financial activity, forensic findings, previous offending information, and sometimes thousands…
Advanced Criminal Intelligence Analysis Using Structured Methods
Modern criminal investigations rarely suffer from a shortage of information. The real problem is making sense of it. A serious investigation might contain phone records, CCTV footage, witness reports, financial transactions, vehicle…