Intelligence-Led Policing

Beyond the Fusion Center – Intelligence-Led Policing’s Central, Strategic Role. By Stephen G. Serrao, Captain, New Jersey State Police (ret.)

Becoming an Intelligence-Led Policing organization, or ILP, is a complicated and arduous task, yet many police executives still believe just building a Fusion Center makes them “intelligence-led.” In fact, that’s just not enough! Becoming an intelligence-led organization involves change from the very top to the very bottom of the law enforcement organization. A combination of threat assessment, information collection, and analysis – consistently applied to command level decision-making – is the true formula for success. Throughout my 25-year career as a law enforcement professional and now working internationally with law enforcement agencies on their intelligence management initiatives, I have challenged police executives to understand the key elements of ILP and to employ this approach systematically