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Pro-Active Policing

ILP in Different Countries:

Intelligence-led policing gained its momentum in the 1970s, when the National Advisory
Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals announced that every law enforcement

agency should immediately create system for gathering and analyzing data. However,
agencies were not governed by polices and violated many civil liberties, resulting in many

agencies shutting down their intelligence functions by court order or voluntarily.

Intelligence-led policing in the UK has been applied as a specialized police practice involving the

identification and targeting of high-rate, chronic offenders, and devising strategic interventions
based on that intelligence. ILP originated as a problem-oriented strategy in the Kent and North

Umbria Constabularies in combating motor vehicle theft and other property crime.

In the Canadian context, the lineage of intelligence-led policing can be traced to the Royal

Canadian Mounted Police‘s failure to prevent the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182. Post-event
analysis concluded that if the RCMP had had a better relationship with the Sikh community
in Vancouver, they might have acquired actionable intelligence alerting them to the plot by

extremists looking to establish an independent Sikh state in the Punjab region of India.

New Zealand has been experimenting with intelligence-led policing since the 1990s and has

implemented it throughout the New Zealand Police, which is the national police organization in the
country of New Zealand. Intelligence-led policing is encouraged throughout the districts of the

New Zealand Police, and is implemented throughout the country and is an implementation of
intelligence-led policing throughout an entire country.

Covert Policing or Undercover Policing

Covert policing in the United Kingdom are the practices of the British police that are hidden to the
public, usually employed in order that an officer can gather intelligence and approach an offender
without prompting escape.

Most British police forces have formed a unit solely for covert policing operations. One of the
forces that make extensive use of surveillance-led policing is Greater London's Metropolitan

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