Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council and Global Intelligence
Working Group Meetings
June 3–4, 2009—Bethesda, MD
The Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC) meeting on June 3, 2009, featured
presentations and discussions on a number of issues related to criminal intelligence.
Representatives from the CICC’s federal partners—including the Bureau of Justice Assistance,
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Program Manager for the
Information Sharing Environment, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation—provided updates
on the current activities and initiatives of these agencies. Discussion occurred on how to
strengthen these ongoing partnerships. A presentation on the Law Enforcement National Data
Exchange (N-DEx) program was provided to CICC members, as well as an overview of the
Mexican drug cartels that was presented by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. One of
the primary functions of the CICC is to foster coordination among local, state, tribal, and federal
law enforcement agencies. The June 3 meeting included dialogue focused on improving
information sharing efforts as they relate to privacy and civil liberties protections and the
Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative. The CICC also formally approved the Health
Security Intelligence Enterprise Strategic Plan to forward to the Global Advisory Committee for
its vetting and approval.
Takeaways:
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Gather success stories on the use of Global products and resources and/or
how the initiatives of the CICC/Global have improved information and
intelligence sharing.
Continue to work on outreach and dissemination efforts to state and local
law enforcement. A theme throughout the meeting was how to get
information to local and state law enforcement agencies. Fusion centers
serve as one of these information dissemination mechanisms, but
improvement is needed.
Further engage with the National Governors Association to help fusion
centers in the development and implementation of privacy policies (gaining
support from the executive level).
Identify and develop opportunities to help N-DEx in its rollout efforts.
Standardize the definition and role of tips and leads versus SARs. What are
the differences, and how do they relate to one another?
Begin to address deconfliction among law enforcement and how the CICC
can be involved in event and target deconfliction efforts (from an officer
safety standpoint as well as case deconfliction).
Approved the Health Security Intelligence Enterprise Strategic Plan and will
forward to Global.
Two committees under the Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG) met on June 4, 2009—the
Privacy Committee and the Training Committee. Both committees received a presentation on
the new 28 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 23 online training program. CICC members
were encouraged to pilot and complete this training online. The Privacy Committee discussed
the “Tips and Leads Issue Paper” and its purpose and format. The committee also discussed the
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development of a peer-to-peer audit process for criminal intelligence systems. The Training
Committee examined three nationally recognized analyst training doctrines and the core
competencies within each doctrine to begin development of a national set of competencies for
a basic level of training for local, state, and tribal law enforcement and fusion center analysts.
Takeaways from the Privacy Committee:
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Discuss fusion center privacy policies at the upcoming regional fusion center
meetings (specifically the Northeast), and provide assistance, if necessary,
to fusion centers to develop a fusion center privacy policy.
Revise the “Tips and Leads Issue Paper” in context of law enforcement
information data, including suspicious activity reports.
Create a privacy audit checklist for fusion centers and intelligence units
addressing all aspects of intelligence (including the intelligence function and
associated databases).
Develop a five- to seven-minute “roll-call” training DVD titled “Privacy and
Civil Liberties Issues in American Law Enforcement.” This will serve as an
awareness video stressing the importance of law enforcement officers
understanding the sensitivity of privacy issues with the public and not
engaging in privacy invasions.
Takeaways from the Training Committee:
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Send out the revised core competencies for a basic-level analyst training course to
the Training Committee members for review and to other committees, as needed.
Recommend the inclusion of an analyst certification process in the analyst training
levels.
Continue the support of chief executive training programs.
Distribute the LEIU/IALEIA “An Introduction to Intelligence” training presentation to
committee members for review and comment.
Develop job descriptions and knowledge, skills, and abilities for each of the different
types of analysts (including crime, intelligence, investigative analysts).
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