Description
Collect, analyze, and synthesize multi-source intelligence—such as law enforcement data, surveillance, open-source information, and geospatial data—to produce actionable assessments. Use intelligence to anticipate and disrupt organized crime and terrorism, supporting investigations, operations, and strategic decision-making.
- • Forecast gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity from multi-source analysis.
- • Assess threats involving narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, and related national security issues.
- • Design, use, and maintain intelligence databases, GIS mapping, and AI-enabled analytic tools.
- • Develop profiles and typologies to link criminal organizations to members and activities.
- • Analyze communication records to map activity, size, and location of criminal networks.
- • Exploit imagery, radar, and signals collection to gather and evaluate intelligence.
- • Collect intelligence via field observation, confidential sources, and public records (OSINT).
- • Integrate and correlate data from law enforcement databases and other sources.
- • Link and chart suspects, events, and entities to reveal activities and relationships.
- • Task and exploit surveillance systems and lawful intercepts to document activities.
- • Produce clear reports, briefings, maps, and charts from collected and analyzed intelligence.
- • Support planning for lawful interception of foreign communications.
- • Conduct financial analysis to trace assets and money flows linked to targets.
- • Validate and corroborate intelligence with independent sources.
- • Collaborate with partner agencies and intelligence organizations to share information and coordinate activities.
- • Inform operational and defense planning with timely intelligence.
- • Elicit human intelligence through authorized interviews and source engagement.
- • Translate and analyze communications, including coded or foreign-language material.
- • Identify patterns and trends in criminal activity through data analysis.
- • Deliver oral briefings on analytic findings.
- • Identify intelligence gaps and recommend collection to close them.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
