Target Interview Questions Analysis, University Report

This report addresses two target interview questions, exploring the differences between tactical and operational intelligence and their applications, particularly in policing. Tactical intelligence focuses on short-term planning and narrow scopes, while operational intelligence has a broader, longer-term perspective. The report explains how operational intelligence aids in restoring public order and planning activities, while tactical intelligence supports information gathering and proactive planning. The second question analyzes the application of the principle of analysis in research, differentiating between qualitative and quantitative methods. It highlights the use of descriptive, comparative, and inductive reasoning, using a healthcare field research example to illustrate how inductive content analysis helped identify challenges nurses face when caring for dementia patients, ultimately enhancing research validity. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of these analytical methods in uncovering complex factors influencing people's experiences and constructing meaningful theories.

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Target interview questions
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Question 1
Difference between tactical and operational intelligence
Tactical and operational intelligence are two level of intelligence in which the former
deals with articulating what the opposition do to prevent accomplishment of one’s vision and
latter deals with planning campaigns and activities in accomplish any strategic objective in
organization (Clark, 2016). Hence, tactical intelligence is implemented after an operational level
planning is done. Although both tactical and operational intelligence have a cyclic relation,
however the difference in both approach is that operational intelligence has a wider scope,
whereas the tactical intelligence has a narrow scope. Another difference between both forms of
intelligence is that the time orientation for both the activity. Tactical intelligence is a short range
planning that may continue for less than one year and it may mainly focus on the areas of
production and marketing. In contrast, the operational intelligence links the strategic goals with
tactical goals and has a longer implication for business or a public situation (Ratcliffe, 2016).
Application of both level of intelligence in policing
In the context of application of the two level of intelligence in policing, the operational
intelligence would help to restore a negative public order situations like dealing with a
commotion or mob. It promote planning activities to maintain order. Operational intelligence
planning helps to locate threat in a public situation, identify the infrastructure needed to deal with
threat plan activities to manage adverse situations. Hence, it can be said that in the area of
policing, operational intelligence promotes restoring law and order. In addition, the tactical
intelligence complements the policing process by gathering all information related to unlawful
conduct and planning of the crowd in a public situation. It may help plan operations and identify

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opportunities to prevent any risk events. It also informs the development of training required in
the area of policing (Carter, Phillips, & Gayadeen, 2014). Therefore, the tactical intelligence is
based on the information available from operational level plan for a public order situation. The
application of this intelligence is beneficial in getting the data about activities of criminal groups
in any area and devise proactive plan to address coercion or abduction related cases in public.
Question 2
` Application of the principle of analysis in specific research field:
While conducting any research, the principle of analysis is applied to measure and
analysis specific research variables and data. The analysis principle differs for qualitative and
quantitative research. The core principle included in research includes the descriptive analysis,
correlation, comparison and many others. A descriptive analysis in research is done by
tranforming the raw data into a form that can be easily interpreted. It may be done by category
formulation and providing geometric number of harmonic mean to them. Secondly, comparative
analysis supports comparison of two events or attributes with one another. In qualitative
research, inductive reasoning is also taken to analyze research data. In this process, the data is
recorded in a manner to uncover deeper meaning related to human behavior or experience in
particular context (Vaismoradi, Turunen, & Bondas, 2013)..
The principle of inductive reasoning was applied in a research for the health care field.
The purpose of the research was to explore the experience of nurses in dealing with dementia
patient. For this purpose, the data regarding the challenges faced by the participants in caring for
dementia patient was collected by means of interview and questionnaire. The data was collected
by means of online survey and the data was analysed by means of statistical analysis to explore

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causal relationship between challenges and dementia patient. Secondly, inductive reasoning
approach to data analysis helped to separate general information and take specific data to gain
answer to the research process.
After collecting the response of the participants, inductive content analysis was done by
reading the response and separating the vitals points related to challenges. Secondly, the selected
vital points were further analysed to identify the main categories based on the research question.
The challenges for nurse was further subcategorize into dementia care practice, nursing
knowledge about dementia, communication related limitation and many others (Ahmad, 2014).
Hence, the principle of inductive content analysis increased the validity of research as all the
important component leading to challenges for nurses were clearly identified. This validates the
research process because main purpose of qualitative research is to develop insight regarding
complex factor influencing people’s experience (Percy et al., 2015). Therefore, based on the
research data, a pattern of meaning of theory is constructed. There is no predetermined
hypothesis for such research.

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Reference
Ahmad, M. N. (2014). Efficacy of communication among nurses and elderly patients suffering
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Clark, R. M. (2016). Intelligence analysis: A target-centric approach. CQ press.
Percy, W. H., Kostere, K., & Kostere, S. (2015). Generic qualitative research in psychology. The
Qualitative Report, 20(2), 76.
Ratcliffe, J. H. (2016). Intelligence-led policing. Routledge.
Vaismoradi, M., Turunen, H., & Bondas, T. (2013). Content analysis and thematic analysis:
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