Produce an intelligence product on the industrial estate burglary series

What is going on

Three commercial burglaries have occurred in the Riverina Industrial Estate within a month, each overnight between Thursday and Saturday, each targeting tools and copper from premises without alarm monitoring. A residential burglary at Larkspur Rise used a similar method of forcing a rear door. The estate traders have a business watch briefing on Thursday and are asking what police are doing. The Detective Senior Sergeant wants an intelligence product that analyses the series, assesses the threat and risk to other premises, and recommends patrol tasking and crime prevention advice, ready to brief investigators and to inform what can be said to the traders.

Your brief

Analyse the available incident and exhibit records, develop an intelligence assessment of the series including the threat and risk to other premises, and produce a briefing note with recommendations that can be actioned by patrols and investigators, while protecting sensitive information.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Information Management and Privacy Policy and identify what information in an intelligence product can be shared with the traders and what must remain internal.
• Extract the relevant incident records from the Incident Log and build an analysis table of date, day, time window, location, entry method, property taken and evidence available.
• Analyse the pattern for method, timing and target selection, and state whether the Larkspur Rise residential burglary is likely to be linked, with reasons.
• Prepare a threat and risk assessment for other premises in the estate, identifying the characteristics of the most vulnerable premises and rating likelihood and consequence.
• Develop recommendations for patrol tasking by day and time window, for investigative actions such as forensic results and second-hand dealer checks, and for crime prevention advice to traders.
• Write the intelligence briefing note in the district format with a dissemination marking, a summary, the analysis, the assessment and the recommendations.
• Prepare a separate one page version of the advice that is suitable for the business watch briefing and does not disclose sensitive information.
• Record the intelligence product against the linked incident records in the Incident Log and note the exhibits relied on.

What someone in this role would produce

• Analysis table of the series
• Threat and risk assessment
• Intelligence briefing note with recommendations
• Public version for the business watch briefing
• Updated Incident Log records