ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the implications of the broadening security agenda in the face of reduced police budgets. It explores how police employ source development, surveillance and the legislation surrounding these information collection tools. One of the significant threats is a misconception among both police and the public that the meaning of intelligence retains a suggestion of subterfuge, a clandestine and covert activity conducted by officers of a shady disposition and involving a degree of moral ambiguity'. The future of intelligence-led policing may well be linked to associated developments. Police legitimacy is hard earned yet too easily lost. The principle of proportionality also applies to the storage of private individual information, an area with considerable legal implications for the development of intelligence-led policing. The purpose of 28CFR23 is to ensure that criminal intelligence systems are operated and maintained so that individual privacy and rights are not violated unless in accordance with the law.
