Criminal intelligence

Razvoj kriminalistično obveščevalne dejavnosti se je začel konec 19. stoletja v Veliki Britaniji. Ker se je koncept dela kriminalistično obveščevalne dejavnosti pokazal kot zelo uspešen v boju zoper različne oblike kriminala, si je ta oblika dela začela hitro vtirati pot tudi v varnostne organe drugih držav. Tudi trendi razvoja varnostnih organov danes kažejo na svetlo prihodnost kriminalistično obveščevalne dejavnosti. Ker se je kriminalistično obveščevalna dejavnost razvila iz klasične obveščevalne dejavnosti, lahko med njima opazimo veliko podobnosti. Dejavnosti sta si zelo podobni v organiziranosti dela, v načinu zbiranja podatkov in informacij, pomemben segment zbiranja informacij obema predstavljajo informatorji. Tudi obveščevalni in kriminalistično obveščevalni cikel sta si zelo podobna, saj imata oba enako razporeditev posameznih faz znotraj cikla in tudi procesi tečejo zelo podobno. Kljub veliko podobnostim med dejavnostima, pa med njima prihaja do nekaj bistvenih razlik. Razlike je moč opaziti v samem namenu dejavnosti, v usmeritvi dejavnosti ter tudi končni izdelki se v obveščevalni in kriminalistično obveščevalni dejavnosti bistveno razlikujejo. V Republiki Sloveniji kriminalistično obveščevalno dejavnost opravlja Center za kriminalistično obveščevalno dejavnost, ki je organiziran znotraj Uprave kriminalistične policije. Center je nastal leta 2010 in se od takrat aktivno razvija in izpopolnjuje. CKOD tudi aktivno sodeluje z mednarodnimi organizacijami, kot sta Interpol in Europol.Criminal intelligence started to develop at the end of the 19th century. As its work concept proved to be very successful in fighting off different sorts of crimes it also started to sneak into security organs of other countries. Even today the security organs deelopment trends announce a bright future of criminal intelligence. As criminal intelligence developed from classical intelligence we can notice many similarities between them. They are a similar organisation of work, data and information collecting and they share a common important part of information collecting which are informers. Intelligence cycle and criminal intelligence cycle are both very similar too, because they have the same arrangement of phases inside the cycle and their processes run in a very similar way, too. In spite of many similarities between them, there are some crucial differences. There are differences in their goal, in their final guidelines, but their final products in intelligence and criminal intelligence differ very much too. In Slovenia criminal intelligence is done by the Centre for Criminal Intelligence, which is organised inside the Administration of Criminal Police. The Centre,established in 2010, has been actively developing and improving ever since. The Centre for Criminal Intelligence also actively cooperates with the international organisations, like Interpol and Europol