Community of Intelligence: The Secret Behind Intelligence-Led Policing

Intelligence-led policing is the use of analyzed information by decision makers to decide on police resources. Analysis is very important in this and increasingly needs to be a collaborative effort: tools, techniques and the complexity of crimes far exceeds the capacity and expertise of any single analyst. Analysts have to collaborate to create an understanding. In this paper we describe how the Dutch police force has built a community of intelligence in which analysts can collaborate to create intelligence reports for intelligence-led policing.