ABSTRACT
Intelligence-led policing (ILP) is a strategy and business model that integrates the intelligence process with the operations and overall mission of a policing organization. As an integrative strategy, ILP fuses usually fragmented information collection and analysis processes within a policing organization and directs them toward specified crime and disorder reduction objectives. Like many other policing strategies, ILP originated in response to an inadequate deterrence-based standard model of policing. ILP incorporates useful elements of other policing strategies, including the standard model of policing, problem-oriented policing, and community-oriented policing. Originally focused on targeting prolific offenders, hot spots, and threat groups, ILP has more recently added opportunity reduction, problem solving, risk management, and other evidence-based techniques that have demonstrated long-term impact on crime and disorder. Challenges to implementing ILP can be significant and require changes to a police agency’s procedures, training, technology, organizational structure, and culture. This entry examines the origin, history, and theoretical foundations of ILP. Specific emphasis is placed on changes in the definition and application of the strategy particularly after the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. Finally, the entry reviews the challenges in implementing ILP.
