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Intelligence Led Policing as a Framework for Law Enforcement in the 21st Century (From Understanding and Responding to Terrorism, P 221-235, 2007, Huseyin Durmaz, Bilal Sevinc, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-224814)

NCJ Number
224834
Author(s)
Edmund F. McGarrell
Date Published
2007
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This overview of the Intelligence Led Model of Policing (ILP) discusses the origins of ILP and provides examples of promising ILP practices in policing street crime and terrorism.
Abstract
The term ILP can be traced to the Kent and Northumbria Constabularies in Great Britain. The Kent Constabulary developed a model of problem solving that focused on burglary and motor vehicle theft. Officers systematically analyzed these offenses and found that a small number of chronic offenders were responsible for most offenses. Using this intelligence, a variety of strategic interventions were implemented, resulting in a significant drop in crime. A similar use of an ILP model in Northumbria identified the patterns of chronic high-rate offenders. The adoption of ILP builds on major developments in law enforcement that emerged in the last two decades of the 20th century. The developments include community policing, problem solving policing, and continuous improvement business models. This paper reviews the connection between these policing models and ILP. This is followed by two examples of the implementation of the ILP model under the managerial system known as COMPSTAT (“compare statistics”) as applied by the New York City and Chicago Police Departments. COMPSTAT involves regular meeting of the police command staff, area commanders, special units, and prosecutors in order to review current crime trends, develop responses to crime problems, and hold commanders accountable for the level and trend in crime in their precincts. The resulting crime decline in these two cities throughout the 1990s led to a greater acceptance of the value of timely crime analysis as the basis for proactive policing. Other examples of the implementation of the ILP model are also provided. The paper concludes with an example of how the ILP model was used to address the threat of terrorism in Istanbul, Turkey. 1 figure and 53 references