From The Telegraph UK Two police forces have begun trialling the sophisticated programme, which has echoes of the Tom Cruise film Minority Report, where psychics are used to stop criminals before they commit a crime. The system, known as Crush (Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History) evaluates crime records, intelligence briefings, offender profiles and even weather [...]

From Public Intelligence Risk Management Division 2 pages For Official Use Only September 13, 2006 The United States has more than 46,000 shopping malls nationwide, ranging in size from small open-air neighborhood “strip” shopping centers containing fewer than 10,000 square feet (ft2) of store area to super-regional malls with more than 1 million ft2. Terrorist [...]

Law Enforcement Spying Guide 2009 Edition

From Public Intelligence SEARCH Anniversary: The Next 40 years 13 pages For Official Use Only November 2009 (10.2 MB) Technology will undoubtedly continue to radically change how crimes are committed and policed Increased sophistication and “boundaryless” characteristics of crimes pose new challenges – “Criminal and terrorist networks of the information age will be able to [...]

From Public Intelligence Department of Homeland Security 126 pages November 2009 6. Global-Scale Identity Management BACKGROUND What is the problem being addressed? Global-scale identity management concerns identifying and authenticating entities such as people, hardware devices, distributed sensors and actuators, and software applications when accessing critical information technology (IT) systems from anywhere. The term global-scale is [...]

From Public Intelligence Secure Commonwealth Panel 21 pages April 22, 2009 Fusion Center Concept •Bring together various resources in one place –Multiple Agencies –Databases –Analysts –Investigative resources •Provide conduit for collection, analysis, and dissemination of information & intelligence •All Hazards, All Crimes approach VFC Mission •Primary Mission –Fuse together resources from local, state, and federal [...]