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Rounding up the usual suspects? : developments in contemporary law enforcement intelligence / Peter Gill.

Van Pelt Library HV8195.A2 G55 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gill, Peter, 1947-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Law enforcement--Great Britain.
Law enforcement.
Intelligence service.
Great Britain.
Law enforcement--North America.
Intelligence service--Great Britain.
Intelligence service--North America.
North America.
Physical Description:
290 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000.
Contents:
1 Governance, Information and Police
Researching information and intelligence processes 3
Contemporary governance 6
Governance and markets 7
Analytical framework: an intelligence system 18
2 Policing Networks
Policing in Canada, United Kingdom and United States 27
Networks and policing 33
The three-dimensional expansion of policing networks 38
Formal networks in New York 40
Informal networks in New York 46
Transnational Policing networks 48
Conclusion: a 'geology' of policing? 54
3 Crime Networks
Definitions of organised crime 58
Criminal organisations 61
Criminal markets 64
Criminal governments 67
Transnational organised crime 69
4 Development of Intelligence-Led Policing in the UK
The search for new police strategies 78
The organisation of criminal intelligence 81
Local level 81
Force level 83
Regional level 85
National level 86
Customs and Excise 89
Northern Ireland 91
5 Law Enforcement Intelligence in North America
Canada 98
New York
State-level agencies 103
Policing the City 105
Policing the Port 110
Transit Police 112
Investigatory Commissions and Departments 113
The role of prosecutors 117
'The Feds' 120
Department of Justice 121
Treasury Department 124
Federal co-ordination 126
6 Targeting the Intelligence Process
Setting priorities 132
Targeting in Canada, UK and US 138
7 Technologies of Information Gathering
The legal context 148
The 'knowledge store' 156
Open sources 168
Covert technical surveillance 172
8 Informants and Undercover Police
Authorisation and guidelines 182
Recruitment 187
Management 190
Undercover operations 196
9 Producing and Using Intelligence
Organising analysis 211
Tactical and strategic analysis 216
Analysts and investigators 219
Analytical methods 220
Organising dissemination 226
Dissemination and action 232
Public-private sharing 236
10 Rounding Up the Usual Suspects?
Is intelligence-led policing making a difference? 243
Surveillance, intelligence and the 'geology' of policing 246
The centrality of targeting 249
The National Intelligence Model in the UK 251
Intelligence and the growth of 'informalism' 252
Organising intelligence 256
Conclusion: making intelligence accountable 258.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
184014923X
OCLC:
44652096

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