ABSTRACT
From a practical point of view, the process of dealing with forensic intelligence mirrors many of the features of the approaches used by police intelligence units in research and crime analysis. e focus, however, in dealing with forensics is to focus on crime and evidence types as well as the traditional tasks of researching methods, locations, victim proles, behaviours, types of property taken, etc. at is not to say that activity denes the limits for forensic intelligence. It has applications in market analysis and, in dealing with illegal commodities, o„ers opportunities to upstream casework with considerable impact, as is the case with drug markets in Operation Endorse created by the UK Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) (see Chapter 1). At any stage in an intelligence-led operation, what seems to be reactive forensic evidence at the outset can be used to create a proactive intelligence product or assist in the creation of one.
