Where`s the intelligence in the UK`s National Intelligence Model?

This article investigates the status of community intelligence within The National Intelligence Model (NIM) in the UK. The study included focused interviews with 23 intelligence practitioners across the UK police service, combined with open-ended interviews with academics and persons working to implement the NIM. The results indicate that police officers and informants are the most trusted and the most used sources of intelligence, and that the use of community intelligence is marginal. A combination of police culture, lack of knowledge within management and police officers, the absence of a general definition of ‘intelligence’, a lack of guidance around community intelligence and the secrecy surrounding intelligence, stand out as factors that may explain the low status and use of community intelligence

Risky intelligence

The article concerns the use by police services of the abstract idea of intelligence-led policing, often embodied as it is in the United Kingdom in the National Intelligence Model. We will argue that while this is a central framing idea in policing, it contains omissions which lead to faulty decisionmaking. The article charts the rise of intelligenceled policing in the United Kingdom and argues that circumstances have led to the concept of intelligence becoming equated to ‘information which leads to a detection’; however, that this construction leads to areas of omission which then impact upon the business of the police service. One outcome of this is that the members of the community that the police service is charged with protecting and serving pay the price of this decision-making. The central argument of our article is that an overconcentration on the detection of offences has skewed the way the map has been drawn up and how it is currently being used. Our main contention is not that the concept of intelligence-led policing should be abandoned, but that it should be revisited and revised to take greater notice of the changes in the landscape it is designed to cover. The territory is changing but the map is not being amended; it is time for some major revisions

'Where's the 'intelligence' in The National Intelligence Model?'

This dissertation will investigative the status of community intelligence within The National Intelligence Model (NIM) in order to explore the interrelationship between intelligence-led policing being adopted throughout the United Kingdom, together with the drive to improve the relationship between the police and the public. The aim of this work has been to research how intelligence is being defined within NIM, how community intelligence is both perceived and used by practioners, and to draw conclusions from the tensions between these two competing constructs. The study included focused interviews with 23 practitioners working within analysis and intelligence throughout the UK police service. This was combined with open-ended interviews with academics and persons working to implement NIM, and the use of secondary data to ensure reliability and validity. The results suggest that although there is a written statement within the NIM manual to focus on community issues within a NIM structure, this is not how it is working in practice. The study found that police officers and informants were the most trusted and the most used sources of intelligence, and that the use of community intelligence was marginal. A combination of police culture, lack of knowledge amongst police managers and officers, the absence of a general definition of 'intelligence', a lack of guidance around community intelligence and the secrecy surrounding intelligence, stand out as factors that may explain the minor use of community intelligence, the latter being essential if the intention is to prioritise issues like community safety and quality of life within NIM

From mission idealism to operational realism : a study of the Norwegian contribution to international police reform missions

This qualitative study has examined the overall Norwegian contribution to international police reform missions (IPRMs) using a multiple case study design to compare three different missions where Norway has contributed relatively significantly over a period of time. The findings suggest that there are several impediments to achieve a successful outcome of IPRMs, but that the responsibility cannot be attributed to one organization or country alone. The experiences of Norwegian police officers deployed to different types of IPRMs paint a picture of an international arena torn between idealism and realism, one characterized by a pragmatic approach focused on action and quantity rather than development and quality. Because of complete absence of overall doctrines and system that is not sufficiently well grounded, IPRMs suffer from an absence of long-term strategies, goals, success criteria, and planning. Instead, goals are often vague and over-ambitious, demanding results that promote output rather than outcome, consequently at the risk of the individual police officer who operates in adverse operational working conditions. The findings reveals a system that currently fails to recognize the need for better and more extensive planning and preparation for the individual police officer pre-mission, that fails to acknowledge the role and professionalism of the police officers in-mission; and that fails to ensure proper debriefing and reintegration procedures for the police officer post-mission

Demokrati, kontroll og tillit : Forskningskonferansen 2009

Tema på Politihøgskolens Forskningskonferanse i 2009 var «Demokrati, kontroll og tillit». I konferanserapporten presenteres tolv av konferansens innlegg. Hovedgrunnen til temavalget, var at Finstad-utvalget overleverte evalueringen av politiets kontrollmekanismer til justisminister Storberget 12. mai 2009. Det er sjeldent at det gjennomføres så grundige og forskningsbaserte evalueringer av kontroll med politiet, så konferansen ble en god anledning til å presentere resultatene for politietaten og politiforskere. I alt fire av bidragene i konferanserapporten er delundersøkelser fra Finstad-utvalgets evaluering. Samlet diskuteres demokratisk politi, kontroll med politiet og tillit til politiet på et bredt grunnlag. Både forskere og praktikere problematiserer temaene fra sine ståsteder og synsvinkler