The mission of policing was described by the author as covering 6 key areas: (1) enforcing the law, (2)
apprehending offenders, (3) preventing crime, (4) predicting crime, (5) preserving the peace, and (6)
providing services. With the advent of various forms of terrorism and transnational crime, the police
mission has expanded beyond the traditional borders of tangible burglaries and domestic disputes.
Beginning with the material conveyed in the assigned reading and presentation, select 2 scholarly articles
from the university criminal justice databases, and integrate those resources to discuss the use of
intelligence-led policing (ILP) and its application through the development of fusion centers to equip law
enforcement for their expanded mission. Finally, integrate within your discussion the impact of a Judeo-
Christian viewpoint on ILP and the development of fusion centers.
Your thread is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of Module/Week 3. Your replies are due by 11:59 p.m.
(ET) on Sunday of the same module/week.
For this discussion the first article I chose was Intelligence Led Policing within the city of San
Antonio. This article discusses how the San Antonio Police Department received an
administration logic and policing model known as the Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP). The ILP
model actually depends on a process of information gathering and data analysis. But the san
Antonio Police Department has revamped the traditional hierarchal structure that was originally
assigned to the department and replaced it with a flattened, cooperative structure that increases
the collection of information and is able to deliver the criminal intelligence to field units quicker. A
key component of the ILP procedure is a promise to drawing in the group as an accomplice in
wrongdoing diminishment endeavors. The San Antonio Police Department effectively takes part
in communitarian associations with the group to expand data assembling and enhance insight,
expanding on the reasoning of different models, for example, Community Oriented Policing and
Problem-Oriented Policing. Besides, the San Antonio Police Department is focused on
guaranteeing group's trust by receiving legitimate shields to ensure people in general's
protection and common freedoms. ILP advances expanded data gathering, information
investigation, and coordinated effort to better react to contemporary wrongdoing issues and all
the more precisely anticipate future wrongdoing patterns. So in all actuality this model
incorporates all six key factors; enforcing the law, apprehending the offenders, prevents and
predicts crimes, preserving the peace. This article also goes on to discuss the topic of the
terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11th, 2001. This attack actually fostered the
development of ILP showing police agencies that they must consider a wider variety of threats
and hazards than the traditional focus of past policing strategies, including threats to key
resources such as food, agriculture, water and critical infrastructure such as energy,
transportation, and telecommunications. Due to the San Antonio’s ILP they actually helped with
the development of the Southwest Texas Fusion Center (SWTFC), which is currently managed
by the San Antonio Police Department. The mission of the SWTFC is to develop an "all threat/all
hazard" approach to information/intelligence sharing and public safety through a process of
collaboration with regional and national partners in pursuit of a safer community and nation. .
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The next article I located actually discusses the types of terrorism and the causes. This article
defines terrorism as the use of violence to physically and psychologically terrorize a population
by an individual or a group in order to draw attention to a cause, enact political change, or gain
political power. (Grothaus, N. (n.d.) The section, Religious Terrorism, would include groups like
Al-Qaeda which was the main cause of the 9/11 attack, and as mentioned in the article above
the 9/11 attack was ultimately the reason for fusion centers and Intelligence Led Policing, which
both incorporate the six key factors.
References
Grothaus, N. (n.d.). Types Of Terrorism. Retrieved from http://handofreason.com/2011/featured/types-
of-terrorism
www.sanantonio.gov. (n.d.). INTELLIGENCE LED POLICING. Retrieved from
http://www.sanantonio.gov/SAPD/IntelligenceLedPolicing.aspx
Replies
Great post Arthur! You are absolutely correct, Intelligence Led Policing models and the Fusion
Centers are a huge part of our countries efforts to keep us safe, from police officers to armies.
Sad to say that these two things were basically nonexistent until the attack of September 11th,
2001. The ILP model advances expanded data gathering, information investigation, and
coordinated effort to better react to contemporary wrongdoing issues and all the more precisely
anticipate future wrongdoing patterns. And the fusion center is a “collaborative effort of two or
more agencies that provide resources, expertise, and information to the center with the goal of
maximizing their ability to detect, prevent, investigate, and respond to criminal and terrorist
activity (Hansen, 2013, p. 30). So by incorporating the two together, we are covering all the key
factors of enforcing the law, apprehending the offenders, preventing and predicting the crimes,
and preserving the peace.
Hansen, J. (2013). “A Look at Fusion Centers,” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, December
2013, 28-32.
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