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James, Adrian --- "Intelligence-led policing: comparing national approaches to its regulation and control" [2018] ELECD 1317; in den Boer, Monica (ed), "Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 134

Book Title: Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective

Editor(s): den Boer, Monica

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785369100

Section: Chapter 6

Section Title: Intelligence-led policing: comparing national approaches to its regulation and control

Author(s): James, Adrian

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

Intelligence-led policing is increasingly regarded as a pragmatic reality, based on the assumption that pro-active investigation and disruption of criminal activities is more effective than a reactive model of policing. Meanwhile, as intelligence-led policing is spread across many jurisdictions, supported and transferred by institutional vehicles like Interpol and Europol, one could argue that public policing is the subject of a thorough reconfiguration, leading to profound normative questions concerning legitimacy and citizens’ rights. In most liberal democracies, legal rules confine the limits within which intelligence-led policing can be conducted. Interception of telecommunication, the use of surveillance devices and the employment of informers all belong to a growing repertory of intelligence-based policing activities. Increasingly, intelligence-led policing is applied in the context of ordinary policing tasks, making accountability, transparency and procedural rights increasingly relevant in a wide situational variety.