INTRODUCTION TO POLICE INTELLIGENCE

1. INFORMATION
It is all specific data about some fact, phenomenon, person, or thing in
general.
As data, it constitutes the necessary background to achieve knowledge and is
obtained through the senses directly or indirectly.
The information is essentially objective because it describes the data itself the most.
close to reality and not to interested personal interpretations or
passionate. It is not speculative and its content may refer to the present,
past and/or future.

2. POLICE INFORMATION
It is all knowledge related to any of the fields of human activity.
(Political, Sociological, Criminal, Terrorism, TID, etc.), that is related to
the functional scope of the National Police of Peru, prescribed in art.166 of the
Political Constitution of Peru.

Article 166° The National Police has the fundamental purpose of guaranteeing,
maintain and restore internal order. Provides protection and assistance to people
and to the community. Ensures compliance with the laws and the security of
public and private property. It prevents, investigates, and combats crime.
Monitor and control the borders.

As a premise, all information is important, since that which seems not to have
importance at first sight, it may assume prevalence when contrasted and/or
compared to others. The value of information increases when one knows the
circumstances regarding its origin and the moment it was obtained.

3. INTELLIGENCE
It is the methodologically processed information and ready to be used.
It is also considered as knowledge (of some fact, phenomenon,
person or thing in general) obtained with the utmost scientific rigor possible, that
it has an optimal degree of truth or prediction, and it is determined for a
specific purpose, as an element of judgment for decision-making.

I + I + I + I + ... = I INFORMATION
I => INTELLIGENCE

As a premise, all human activity obeys a mental process of

contrasting and cross-referencing information, which allows deciding on the best option.
useful for our purposes.

4. POLICE INTELLIGENCE
It is the processing resulting from selection, recording, evaluation, analysis,
integration and interpretation of all information related to the functional area of
the National Police, which enables decision-making and planning
execution of operations and other police activities necessary for the
fulfillment of the mission.
 Intelligence in the PNP is necessary for:

A. Consulting in the Areas of:

Personal
Intelligence
Operations
Logistics

B. The Planning of Operations in the Areas of:

Prevention
Research
The Confrontation

c. Decision Making

5. CLASSIFICATION OF INTELLIGENCE

A. BY THE LEVEL OF THE ORGAN OR ORGANISM THAT USES IT:

STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
It is one that is important for decision-making in the
determination of our security policy and in planning,
preparation and execution of national defense at its highest levels.
It is the knowledge required by the government of a nation and the
commands of the highest military and/or police level, regarding the possibilities
and vulnerabilities of the countries that are of interest to National Defense and
of the own country referred to the internal enemy, necessary for the
establishment, direction, and management of security policy and
preparation and execution of said defense.
Due to the very nature of this intelligence and the deadlines that
Normally, a visa has a longer validity period than intelligence.
Operational and more time for its production.

Operational Intelligence
It is the knowledge that the unit commanders require.
executives PNP. About the possibilities, vulnerabilities, and probable
forms of action of the opponent, real or potential, for planning
and execution of police operations necessary for the
fulfillment of the mission.
Due to its rapid depreciation, its production and dissemination
They must be very fast.

B. FOR THE TIME WITH WHICH ITS CONTENT IS RELATED

BASIC INTELLIGENCE
It is that produced earlier, on the elements of analysis,
that serve as the basis for current and predictive intelligence; the extension and
the depth of the topics makes it necessary to organize it sometimes in
basic studies with an encyclopedic character, which receive various
 names such as manuals, books, etc.; and others, in files or
intelligence banks, ideally supported by systems of
computer science that facilitates the process of intelligence production.
With the knowledge it provides, follow-up can be done.
of the variations or changes that have occurred and produce, thus, a
updated knowledge which is one of the ways in which it
presents Current Intelligence. The lack of Basic Intelligence or the
underestimation of its importance can cause harm to the
production of Current and Predictive Intelligence and, consequently,
lead to errors in decisions and in the conduct of actions
national defense operations.

CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
It is that of the moment, produced either as a result of
monitoring of certain aspects of Basic Intelligence or
as new knowledge; it is essential to update it
knowledge because it can serve as a basis when the
importance and urgency justify it for decision-making or can
increase basic intelligence or to produce intelligence
Predictive.

Predictive Intelligence
It is one that presents situations or facts that may occur in the
future based on basic and current intelligence. This is
the most important and most difficult to produce.

6. POLICE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM

It is the set of hierarchically organized organisms, with a mission and doctrine of work.
uniform, whose functions, procedures, and techniques are closely related
related, cohesive and clearly defined, to perform a task
integrated to ensure maximum efficiency in intelligence production
necessary for police operations.

7. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
It is the set of active and passive measures adopted to conceal the
opponent our intentions, activities, possibilities, vulnerabilities,
forms of action, and to neutralize or prevent intelligence activities,
espionage, sabotage, terrorism, etc., of the opponent. It also includes the
detection of acts of discontent and disloyalty from the institution's staff.

8. SECURITY
It is the state of trust of a person or human group based on the
conviction that there is no danger or risk to fear, after
to have taken a series of measures or regulations that eliminate all risks
let them present themselves.

9. INTEGRAL SECURITY
It is the situation in which the state has guaranteed its existence, its freedom of
action and the free availability of its resources, for the achievement of the common good.
10. DOCTRINE
It is the set of principles, norms, and concepts established based on theory.
or the experience and which represents the most complete accumulation of knowledge that
they are arranged regarding a specific matter.

11. OPPONENT
It is any natural person or organization with open or clandestine activities,
that threaten the institutional mission and national defense.

12. POSSIBILITIES
It is any action or form of action that the opponent is physically capable of performing.
and what, if done, will affect positively or negatively the fulfillment
of the mission or the achievement of our objectives. It is also conceptualized
like the ability of a state or internal group to carry out actions to
achieve their development or defense objectives and that, if done, will affect
favorably or unfavorably the achievement of our goals.

13. VULNERABILITIES
It is any disadvantageous condition or circumstance or existing weak point in the
situation of the opponent, susceptible to being exploited for the benefit of the
fulfillment of the mission.

14. PROBABLE COURSE OF ACTION

It is all those possibilities or combinations of possibilities that the opponent is
in better conditions to carry out, with the greatest advantages and effect, and that,
Due to this rationality, we assume that it could decide to execute. The balance
between possibilities and vulnerabilities allows to determine the likely form of
action, that is to say the possibility that the minor number has
vulnerabilities and if they exist, they should be the least significant.

15. INTENTIONS
They are conjectures about the future behavior of the opponent, about their purposes and the
willingness to put them into practice, determined based on their background,
traditions, customs, trends, aspirations, and capacity referred to the
action that can be carried out in a certain time, under certain conditions
circumstances.