Abstract

CORTES VARGAS, Yofre Luis  and  PARRA CELY, Rodolfo. An approach to the theoretical foundation of police intelligence. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2013, vol.55, n.2, pp.167-185. ISSN 1794-3108.

This research work is an approximation made in order to describe the knowledge foundations and features of police intelligence as a scientific discipline. The results obtained are centered on the identification of the theoretical framework bearing an affinity with the practice of the activity being developed at the "Direccion de Inteligencia Policial", the Police Intelligence Authority, and the proposal of a new concept serving to support its main characteristics in a theoretical way. The precedent used to initiate the inquiry through documentary consultation, focus groups and seminars, was based on the identification of a core problem: the absence of a systematic structure of propositions dealing with the knowledge grounds supporting police intelligence and the persistent tendency to confuse it with other knowledge areas by erroneously considering them as synonyms. Where it is suggested by using customary argumentative elements that this intelligence bears the features of a scientific discipline substantially different from any other activity, the purpose here consists of generating a critical reflection around the concept that police intelligence is exclusively developed by police forces in order to orientate the police entity's action dealing with coexistence.

Keywords : Police; intelligence services; epistemology; structural-functionalist theory; anticipation.

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