CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE: CONCEPT, IMPLEMENTATION, COMPARED EXPERIENCES.

Abstract

Criminal intelligence is knowledge about crime, to prevent it, and confront it effectively. In various countries around the world to obtain, develop, and disseminate this knowledge, criminal intelligence organizations are created, consisting mainly of police officers, profes- sional analysts in various disciplines to understand and interpret crime, computer technicians and administrative support staff, and criminal in- telligence units are established in police institutions, security forces, and other bodies that participate in public security, interconnecting telematically with the head criminal intelligence body of the system, all working by accordance with a common doctrine. There are other organizational forms with a similar purpose: that of knowing crime, that of interpreting the criminal environment (Ratcliffe), which is what must be achieve