ABSTRACT
Internal policing of financial crime requires police intelligence and police investigations. Police intelligence has to be based on an intelligence strategy that is implemented. Knowledge organization has emerged as the dominant structure of both public and private organizations in the transition from an industrial to a knowledge society. Knowledge management research has described organizational knowledge flows in terms of the knowledge circulation process, consisting of five components: knowledge creation, accumulation, sharing, utilization and internalization. Strategic knowledge is characterized by being valuable, unique, rare, non-imitable, non-substitutable, non-transferable, combinable and exploitable. Uretsky (2001) argues that the real knowledge organization is the learning organization. Organizational intelligence is the ability of an organization to perceive, interpret and respond to its environment in a manner that meets its goals while satisfying multiple stakeholders. Criminal knowledge organizations are able to adapt quickly to new market conditions, law enforcement strategies, customs control procedures and other factors influencing business performance.
