Teaching Intelligence in Law Enforcement: Understudy Program for Intelligence Analysts

1. Teaching Intelligence in Law Enforcement: Understudy Program for Intelligence Analysts Royal Canadian Mounted Police Canadian Criminal Intelligence Support and Development Branch

2. Rationale for Understudy Program • Demographics • Need for: • high-functioning and motivated workforce • interoperability within pillars of intelligence program • learning and development benchmarks • common standards • career path for professionalization

3. Basic Cross-Training • Two mandatory courses for all Pillars of Criminal Intelligence (CI) Program • Criminal Intelligence Foundations Course (CIFC) – classroom • On-line information handling course

4. Intelligence Analyst Understudy Program • Two year completion • Structured roadmap for training and development • Mandatory and optional classroom and on-line courses • Specific benchmarks in terms of related tasks that demonstrate progression in competency

5. Task Analyses and Validation • Major analytical tasks validated by group of experienced analysts • Core tasks common to all analysts • Each task has five levels of competency • Unacceptable, beginner, intermediate, advanced and proficient • Knowledge, standards, autonomy, perceptions of context, coping with complexity • Milestones for: one month; one year; two years ; over two years

7. List of 8 Major Tasks and Objectives #1 Communicate mandate of RCMP and Criminal Intelligence (CI) program and advise on roles and functions of analyst in support of CI and client mandates. #2 Plan effectively by determining client needs; selecting priorities; identifying available resources relevant to analytic requirement; and producing timely work plan in agreement with client.

8. List of Tasks and Objectives #3 Identify and collect all relevant information while safeguarding the security of information in accordance with legislation, procedures and policies. • Relevant • Complete • Timely • Secure

9. List of Tasks and Objectives #4 Evaluate through corroboration the reliability and validity of all information using standard ratings. #5 Categorize and share relevant information in a retrievable format according to legislation, policies and procedures.

10. List of Tasks and Objectives #6 Analyze information using appropriate, reliable methods to address analytical requirement, such as identifying priorities, emerging, threats, crime trends, investigative leads and intelligence/enforcement gaps.

11. List of Tasks and Objectives #7 Produce an analytical assessment for intelligence clients which convey the findings in an appropriate format in accordance with security requirements. #8 Apply the review, approval and dissemination processes in accordance with legislation, policy and procedures.

12. Overarching Knowledge and Competencies • Networking • Teamwork • Police culture and procedures • Technology • Informing, educating and advising to assist police management in planning resource and operations

13. Next Steps • Completion of learning strategy/roadmap • Establish which training and analytical tasks are to be completed within first month; first year; and second year • Developing new courses/workshops and other developmental opportunities • Identifying coaches and developing coaching strategies