Key Differences Between Information, Intelligence, and Analysis

Project - Criminal Intelligence Analyst
1. Identify the key differences between information, intelligence, and analysis.
Intelligence can be subdivided into how many types? What are they? (5+5)
Answer:
Information Intelligence Analysis
Information is all about
the knowledge
communicated the
particular facts, figures
and other circumstances.
Information can be
collected into different
formats such as statistical,
descriptive etc.
Intelligence is related the
finding out information,
determining what it means
and then perform
significant actions.
Intelligence is a way to
express the information in
the visualise manner. This
can help for exchange data
easily.
Analysis is process of
breaking the
information into
smaller parts in order
to gain a better
understanding of it.
Analysis process will
support for
information and
intelligence to
represent the accurate
result or outcome.
Intelligence can be divided into different types: breaks down into at least number of
components. It involves logical mathematical, spatial, linguistic, interpersonal and
kinaesthetic.
2. What is criminal intelligence? What is Criminal Intelligence Analysis? Identify the four
stages of the Intelligence Cycle. (2+2+4)
Answer:-
Criminal intelligence is defined the process of compiled, analysed and disseminated the
information. this will help for putting more efforts to anticipate, prevent or monitor
criminal activities.

Criminal intelligence analysis is type of components of effective policing at strategic and
operational level. Analyst can study the criminal data in order to find possible trends,
relationship or connection between different crimes.
Four stages of the Intelligence Cycle
 Collection
 Processing
 Analysis
 Publication of intelligence
3. What knowledge, general mental and technical ability are required in an effective
analyst? Identify the characteristics of an exceptional analyst. (9+6)
Answer:
For an effective analyst, it has been required the knowledge, general mental and
technical ability that can understand the current business intelligence process.
Generally, it is considered the technical ability such as MS office, power point, SRS, uses
cases etc. On the other hand, analyst has a knowledge about the business requirements
so that they can establish a communication between management and client.
Additionally, Communication skill is also considered the essential skill or ability.
Characteristics of an exceptional analyst
There are different characteristics of exceptional analyst as follows:
 Excellent critical thinking
 Analytical mind
 Processing modelling knowledge
 Impressive communication skill
 Problem solving skill

4. Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of the data currently available for crime
psychology research. (10
Answer:
Advantage-
Solving crime- this can help for improving depth understanding towards available data in
which motivate towards crime, personality types. Sometimes, it empathy for victims that
help for criminologists to be gained benefits to society after crime.
Preventing crime- through research, it is able to predict the patterns in family
background, socio-economic status, mental health and other kind of factors. These are
likely to increase certain type of criminal activities.
Disadvantage-
Critical thinking and better qualification- It is the straight forwards things that research
would occurs on the basis of high level critical thinking. But at certain point, due to the
lower ability and difficult to identify the actual criminal patterns.
Poor knowledge about crime psychology research- it is very difficult to understand the
academic training in regards of crime psychology research.
5. Elaborate on qualitative and quantitative research methods. (10)
Answer:
Qualitative method is based in the expression of words, which is mainly used to
understand the concepts, thoughts and experience. This type of method enable to
gather or collect in depth insights on topic of criminal intelligence. Usually, there are
different methods of qualitative such as interviews with open-ended questions,
observations in words, Literature review that supports for exploring logical concepts and
theories.