The Jail Intelligence Manual: How Jails Can Implement Low Cost & No Cost Intelligence Practices That Proactively Assist Investigations, Solve Crimes

Criminal Intelligence: These words conjure up many differing definitions. Some think of television shows as police hackers, cops, and analysts who quickly solve crimes, always within their hour-long allotted time limit. Fictional portrayals of agencies such as NYPD or the FBI are popular. Others envision CIA agents fighting bad guys from the other side, with dramatic fight scenes. Some also think of industrial espionage, where corporate secrets are stolen for the benefit of competing companies, much to the detriment of intellectual property owners. The intelligence world has long been glamorized in movies and television. Reality is far different. Intelligence has a legitimate role in law enforcement & corrections, helping to solve crimes and keeping people safe.

Most books about correctional intelligence concentrate on larger facilities, such as prisons, where established intelligence staff often do this work full-time. However, smaller jails and the valuable criminal information they can provide are often overlooked and underutilized. Smaller jails often have no set process to guide them and cannot dedicate full-time staff to this task. This book, aimed at small and medium-sized jails, seeks to solve this issue by showing how Correctional Officers CAN gather & produce valuable Criminal Intelligence from inside the small to medium-sized jail setting.

Topics Covered Include:

• The Differences Between Information & Intelligence
• How Getting Buy-In from the Top is Essential to Success
• How to Plan Intelligence Goals
• Learn Intelligence Procedures and Processes that WORK
• Using the Intelligence Cycle as a Guide
• Gangs & Security Threat Groups
• The Legal Aspects of Correctional Intelligence
• Free & Low-Cost Training Resources
• Officer Safety: Protecting Your Information, Life, & Family

Jail Intelligence, when correctly & legally gathered, assessed, and disseminated to law enforcement investigators and correctional administration, can help law enforcement to solve crimes & close cases while helping correctional staff keep the jail a safer place for both staff and inmates. This book is for you if you are a correctional officer, gang specialist, correctional facility manager, or police/task force investigator.