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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Reduce and describe information
  2. Analyse and interpret information
  3. Develop inferences
  4. Reduce and describe information
  5. Analyse and interpret information
  6. Develop inferences

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least two occasions.

communicating orally

reading and interpreting complex diagrammatical, graphical and textual information

writing intelligence analysis reports

applying deductive and inductive reasoning

applying sound inductive or deductive argument

using analytical and chart conventions

evaluating and re-evaluating inferences to ensure accuracy and incorporate new information

using computer and information system skills to collect, collate, analyse information and develop intelligence products

managing resources including human and physical resources and allocation/access


Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

organisation's policies and procedures related to intelligence practices

different types of community criminal activity and their elements

activities/processes within the prison environment

available resources required to support the intelligence analysis process

range of analytical techniques appropriate for information analysis including inductive/deductive reasoning processes

information source, including human source information, and information evaluation systems, such as the Admiralty Code or other system

psychology and motivation of human sources

the influence of human factors on information analysis

criminal justice system procedures and evidentiary requirements

jargon used within the organisation