Course Information:
Criminal Intelligence Analysis

The increasing need for Criminal Intelligence Analysis Training has become recognized over the past few years as law enforcement agencies have had to investigate diverse criminal conspiracies ranging from the importation and distribution of narcotics to money laundering and terrorism. Although originally developed to assist intelligence units deal with organized crime, criminal investigators and the analysts who support them have found a number of specialized tools to be extraordinarily useful in the management of other complex cases and the presentation of these cases in Court. Today, law enforcement personnel can use these techniques to investigate not only the types of conspiracies mentioned above, but cases involving homicide, street gangs, economic fraud, and political corruption as well.

This is a one-week (36 hour) "hands-on" program that provides you with techniques you can use immediately to solve the real-world problems that daily confront the law enforcement community. Once trained, you will be able to identify the individuals in a conspiracy and determine their relationships to one another, effectively track and monitor criminal events, establish the sources and distribution of funds necessary to underwrite conspiratorial activities, and identify the financial gain realized from a wide variety of illegal operations.

Presented in a comfortable, non-threatening environment that permits both individualized and group instruction, the training takes a "learn-by-doing" approach that gives you many opportunities to actually perform the tasks associated with criminal intelligence analysis work. You will learn how to prepare the types of link analyses, time/event analyses, and economic analyses which have proven themselves effective in homicide and robbery investigations and in activities involving organized crime, terrorism, economic crime, narcotics, and the criminal actions of today's street gangs. Extensive use of "hands-on" exercises will enhance your ability to manage complex data, identify missing case elements, and develop suspect leads. This format of instruction allows for not only a highly interactive exchange between the student and the facilitator, but offers unique opportunities for group interaction and collaboration as well.

You Should Attend If:
• You are a recently-employed investigator or crime or intelligence analyst assigned to narcotics, counter terrorism, political corruption, or financial laundering cases.

• You are an experienced analyst or investigator who has received little of the formal training necessary to fully develop your analytical skills

• You now-or may later-supervise analysis personnel.

• You are employed by a prosecution unit that prepares the types of cases described above.

Here's What You Will Learn
This course will provide you with an arsenal of techniques you can use to organize and analyze crime data, identify conspiratorial activities, establish relationships between people and organizations, and effectively present your findings in criminal court proceedings.

You'll learn how to develop and use intelligence at the specialized investigative unit level to plan and direct investigative attention in combating criminal activities, at the departmental level to facilitate the operational and administrative decision-making process, and at the central or regional level to project national and international trends.

Designed for all federal, state, municipal, and military intelligence officers and analysts, this course will demystify essential professional skills involving:

Operational Issues
• Identifying the Major Differences Between What Intelligence Is, What It Is Not, and What It Must Be

• The Origins of Intelligence

• How to Turn Data into Information-The 5 Critical Steps in the Intelligence Analysis Process

• Features of Good Intelligence

• How To Instantly Distinguish Differences Between Tactical, Strategic, and Operational Intelligence • Impediments to the Intelligence Process-Why It Occurs and How to Overcome it

• Associations Made Easy! How to Establish Those All- lmportant Links Between People, Organizations, and Events

• How to Chart Events, Commodity Flow, and Activities in a Criminal Organization

• Communicate with Confidence! How to Present Intelligence Effectively in Oral and Written Reports

• The Tricks of the Trade-How to Correctly Construct and Interpret Scatter Diagrams, Frequency Charts, Time-Series Analysis Matrices, and Data Correlation Charts

• Discovering the Hidden Ill-Gotten Gains! How to Develop Financial Profiles Using the Networth Method

• Tracking the Source and Distribution of Assets-Money Laundering Secrets and Techniques

• Using the Power of the Computer to Greatly Assist the Analytical Process