Investigation and intelligence

In this unit, you will explore the practices of criminal investigation and intelligence used in policing, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. The first half explores how eyewitness testimony, investigative interviewing, and physical and digital crime scenes and evidence are used in criminal investigation. The second half will focus on how the intelligence cycle, sources, criminal intelligence, security intelligence and espionage influence decision-making. In doing so, you will critically assess how analysts, investigators and agencies use information to hypothesise, identify persons of interest, formulate suspicion, and generate belief.