Iligan Capitol College
Mahayahay, Iligan City
COLLEGE of CRIMINOLOGY
Police Intelligence
and Secret Service
➢ Essential Interest in Intelligence
➢ Kinds of Intelligence
Prepared by: Kiven M. Geonzon
Intelligence Defined
• According to Psychology – intelligence is the capacity of a
person to adjust to new situations through the use of what
has been previously learned.
• According to Police Parlance - The end product resulting from
the collection, evaluation, analysis, integration and
interpretation of all available information regarding the
activities of criminal and other law violators for the purpose of
affecting criminals and other law violators for the purpose of
affecting their arrest, obtaining evidence, and forestalling plan
to commit crime.
Functions of Intelligence in General
1. the collection or procurement of information
2. the evaluation of the information which then become
intelligence
3. the dissemination of intelligence to those who need it.
4. counter intelligence or negative intelligence, which is
dedicated to the concealment and protection of one’s own
information from the adversary intelligence operation. It is a
defensive function of intelligence.
Criteria for Intelligence
1. Universality of application - it should apply to as many
phases and aspects of intelligence as possible.
2. It must be broad - it should form the basis for a formulation
of corollary and subsidiary guides.
3. It must be important, indeed essential, to intelligence- if a
guide is truly important and essential, then its violations
should bring its own immediate penalties.
Principles of Intelligence
1. Objectivity - in intelligence, only the well guided succeed. It
is a basic intelligence concept that there must be unity
between knowledge and action.
2. Interdependence - Intelligence is artificially subdivided into
component elements to insure complete coverage,
eliminate duplication and to reduce the overall task or
manageable sizes.
3. Continuity- It is necessary that coverage be continuous so
that the shape of what happens today could be studied in
the light of what happened before, which in turn would
enable us to predict the shape of things to come.
4. Communication - Intelligence adequate to their needs must
be communicated to all the decision makers in manner that
they will understand and form that will permit its most
effective use.
5. Usefulness - Intelligence is useless if it remains in the minds,
or in the files of its collectors or its producers. The story
must be told and it must be told well.
6. Selection - Intelligence should be essential and pertinent to
the purpose at hand.
7. Timeliness - Timeliness is one principle that complements
all the others.
8. Security - Security is achieved by the measures which
intelligence takes to protect and preserve the integrity of its
activities.
Functional Classification of Police Intelligence
1. Criminal Intelligence – refers to information collected and
organized in order to help prevent illegal activity from taking
place and to help stop those engaged in illegal activity.
2. Internal Security Intelligence – refers to the knowledge
essential to the maintenance of peace and order.
3. Public Safety Intelligence – refers to the knowledge
essential to ensure the protection of lives and properties.
KINDS OF INTELLIGENCE
1. Strategic Intelligence – It does not have immediate
operational value but rather long range that may become
relevant to future police operations.
2. Line Intelligence – It is the kind of intelligence required by
the commander to provide for planning and conduct tactical
and administrative operation in counter insurgency.
Intelligence information to be determined
in Line Intelligence are (PWET):
• People - living condition of the people, sources of income, education
of the people, government livelihood projects, extent of enemy
influence to the people
• Weather – visibility, cloudy, temperature, precipitation (rain), wind
• Enemy - location of the enemy, strength of the enemy, disposition,
tactical capability, enemy vulnerability
• Terrain - relief and drainage system, vegetation, surface material,
man made features. There are military aspects of terrain which
includes cover and concealment, obstacle, critical key terrain
features, observation and fields of fire, and avenues of approach.
3. Counter Intelligence (CI) - this kind of intelligence covers the
activity devoted in destroying the effectiveness of hostile
foreign activities and to the protection of info against
espionage, subversion and sabotage.
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