Force Intelligence Bureau
The Force Intelligence Bureau is part of Crime Management Services and is located in police headquarters.
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary gets intelligence (information) from a variety of sources. The main job of the Bureau is to collate the intelligence and use it in the most productive way to fight crime. Intelligence can come from a number of places, such as: police officers, members of the public and Crimestoppers. It can also be obtained from other police forces and partner agencies across the country.
Once we get this intelligence we check and grade it. Afterwards it is then distributed to the relevant policing area so that a fuller picture can be compiled about the criminal activity or offending behaviour of the groups or individuals involved.
This intelligence allows officers to take effective action to the problems highlighted. This can be through surveillance, targeted patrols or the obtaining of search warrants on the offenders and their premises. It is often directly through our intelligence that arrests can be made.
These processes are intrinsic to the processes of the National Intelligence Model utilised by the force and its effectiveness in driving frontline policing business.
The Bureau therefore plays a vital role in responding and tackling crime in your neighbourhood.
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