Review article
The Use of Proactive Criminal Intelligence in the Fight Against Serious and Organised Crime
Damjan Potparič
; Generalno tajništvo INTERPOL-a u Lyonu
Petar Veić
Abstract
The Use of Proactive Criminal Intelligence in the Fight Against Serious and Organised Crime
The paper focuses on criminal intelligence and intelligence-led policing that originates out of it as a
generally accepted concept of police work in the EU and the world. It highlights a rather slow application
of the new way of police work, particularly in countries lacking tradition in using intelligence for
police purposes, such as Southeast European countries. These countries experience a lack of understanding
of criminal intelligence, inappropriate terminology, and insufficient legislation. Intelligenceled
policing, based on the idea that the primary task of the police is to prevent and detect crime and
not to respond to already committed crimes, represents a new approach in the criminal investigation.
The new way of policing plays a significant role in the fight against serious and organised crime and
terrorism provided that it is used proactively. The authors suggest more attention should be paid to the
establishment of a system that would allow the use of specific special investigative techniques as part
of criminal intelligence in the development stage, primarily intended for proactive policing to build
up an information position. Consequently, the conditions for implementing this new type of proactive
criminal investigation would be satisfied.
Keywords
: intelligence-led policing, proactive criminal intelligence, criminal intelligence, criminal
Hrčak ID:
249665
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2020.
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