ABSTRACT
Assuming that a police service has put in place the required changes listed in the following checklist, then that service should be able to see across its entire reported crime a reasonably useful picture of forensics related in volume to the di„erent reported crime types with which to create intelligence products for action:
• e facilities to adequately forensically examine most suitable reported crime scenes maintaining a high intervention rate
• e training and basic equipment in place to screen suspected o„enders in custody
• e resources to perform some form of crime analysis capability • Service-level agreements in place with forensic science providers to
provide legacy data and a capability to support screened-in cases with cross-case forensic linking support
• Adequately trained analysts or sworn o«cers in the use of crime analysis and forensic intelligence
• Some information technology support to handle intelligence, forensic images, and data on the service network
• Most importantly, achievable objectives for the service to make best use of forensic recoveries within resources
If any of these items is not supported, then it is likely that the use of forensic intelligence as a routine investigative tool will be compromised even down to not making best use of latent print matches or DNA results-let alone footwear, ballistics, tool marks, or other trace evidence in the sense of the view across a complete police service where, through lack of performance management and dened responsibility in this area, the actions around biometric matches may be patchy.
