ABSTRACT
Being a policeman in the 21st Century is like being the man who was standing on the bank of a very fast flowing river. Brian Flood and Roger Gaspar argue that a central precept of intelligence-led policing is the necessity to tackle and incapacitate the criminal leaders' and criminal specialists'. As opposed to addressing crime problems at the lower levels of the crime funnel, crime prevention is designed to work at the top of the funnel. Crime reduction is cognisant of the available resources and is an action that brings net benefits after considering the impact of displacement and diffusion of benefits, fear of crime and the impact from other programmes that may have contributed to any specific crime reduction activity'. Crime prevention involves any activity by an individual or group, public or private, which attempts to eliminate crime either before it occurs or before any additional activity results.
