Government And Intelligence Agencies Report

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Introduction
In its broadest sense, terrorism can be defined as the use of violence in an international way
against the civilians of a country for any political purpose. It is often described as the use of
violence in a systematic manner which would create fear in the population with the sole
objective of bringing about any specific objective of the politics. As the term is inherently
ferocious and violent therefore the definition of terrorism is usually very complex and has
many controversies relating to the term. Counter terrorism, on the other hand, can be
described as the tactics techniques and strategies used by the government, military or any
other law enforcement for combating or preventing terrorism. In this paper a brief discussion
will be done about terrorism and its effects. In this paper discussion will be done about the
crimes that the terrorist used for collecting funds for their organisations. The paper will
further provide the readers with the efforts taken by the government and intelligence agencies
to curb terrorism. In this context the paper will discuss about the use of information and
intelligence by the agencies to counter the terrorists.
Terrorism
Terrorism can be described as the use of violence in a systematic manner which would create
fear in the population with the sole objective of bringing about any specific objective of the
politics. As the term is inherently ferocious and violent therefore the definition of terrorism is
usually very complex and has many controversies relating to the term (Newburn 20170.
However section 1 of the Terrorism Act has provided with the general definition of the term
terrorism. Under the provision of this section terrorism can be defined as any conduct, either
by way of threat or by persuasion, is capable of causing immense violence which can further
cause serious damage to the life or the properties of individuals and has been solely designed

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with any specific political agenda. Terrorists can be defined as individuals using violence
against the civilians for any particular political purpose in a unlawful way (Wilkinson 2016).
The terrorist are generally associated with large organisations. There are various ways by
which a terrorism organisation can collect funds for pursuing their agenda. There are many
individuals who support these kinds of activities for their own agenda; they are often seen as
donating funds to the terrorist organisations. Many of the terrorists are often seen as self
funding their organisation. Terrorist often use criminal activities like white collar crimes or
money laundering to collect funds for continuing the terrorist organisations. Terrorist are
often seen as investing in the legal businesses for raising funds for their terrorism
organisations. Organised crime groups can be seen as being used by the terrorists to assist in
the measure and deals of illicit drugs which ensures extraordinary revenue for terrorist groups
with a comparatively little threat of being trapped. By laundering money the terrorist groups
ensure that the law enforcement services are unable to track the movements of cash by the
organizations.
After the funds are collected this wants are transferred to the network organisation of
the terrorists. By help of these funds they are seen as purchasing weapons or equipment, and
use them for covering the expenses necessary for running an organisation. Although, the
steps mentioned are not the only ways in which the terrorists can finance their organisations.
In case the organisation is large, the funds are transferred through the multiple levels present
in the structure of that organisation (Combs, 2017). Funds from one cell of the organization
can often be seen as being used for the governance of the other groups of terrorists working
under the organization overseas. The funds that the terrorists use to finance their activities are
known as the “instrument of crime”.

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Counter terrorism
Counter terrorism can be described as the tactics techniques and strategies used by the
government, military or any other law enforcement for combating or preventing terrorism. To
combat terrorism the government use information and intelligence (Jackson 2018).
Information can be described as the data that has been collected by way of individuals
informing about terrorist activities. Intelligence on the other hand can be described as the
information which the agencies have been collecting from various sources and have kept
them in record by grading and evaluating them. In the British law enforcement agencies both
information and intelligence are considered as the prime methods for heading towards
evidence based policing. Although there multitude of reasons for using analytics by the
British law enforcement agencies, are the most important reason for which analytics are used
for the assessment of information and intelligence is that the information and intelligence are
used by the law enforcement agencies in an efficient manner. The data that are available to
the law enforcement agencies are assessed by analysing them categorically. There are
multitude categories that help the agencies for fighting various criminal activities. The law
enforcement agencies are helped by way of the result analysis for providing outlines towards
the strategies or tactics that can be used to prevent it or reduce crime. By way of the market
profiles the law enforcement officers are needed to be identifying the networks and the main
stakeholders in the organised crime groups. By assessing operational intelligence the
officers can evaluate the information they receive on various organised crime groups or
convicts. By analysis of the demographic of social trends the law enforcement officers are
added for identifying the effect of demographical or societal change towards the crimes in
any community. Network analysis it's the law enforcement officers to identify the roles of
the stakeholders present in an organised criminal activity group and in furtherance help them
to recognise the strengths and the weaknesses present in the group (Blakemore 2016). The