Abstract

VILLAMIZAR MORENO, Artur Oswaldo  and  PEDRAZA URIBE, Luisa Fernanda. Methodological characteristics of information analysis in police intelligence in Colombia. Rev. logos cienc. tecnol. [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.2, pp.87-106.  Epub Aug 17, 2023. ISSN 2145-594X.  https://doi.org/10.22335/rlct.v15i2.1774.

Police intelligence in Colombia executes a cycle comprising the activities of planning, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, evaluation and feedback in order to advise the decision-making process of the institutional command and the national government. The article discusses the methodological characteristics of intelligence information analysis, based on a case design with descriptive scope and qualitative approach in three phases. The first phase compiles twenty-six cases of analysis that in the second phase were submitted to a process of review and validation by experts to select three successful cases. In the third phase, cognitive maps were constructed with emphasis on the representative and replicable features. The results show that there is no clarity in the decisional criteria used in the formulation of solution alternatives, the use and articulation of analysis techniques is restricted and there is confusion between analysis and police intelligence methods. It is concluded that police intelligence has successful cases of analysis, however, the analysts’ reasoning is based on experience, so that the use of techniques and instruments is limited. A dialogue of scientific and empirical knowledge is recommended to raise the standards of intelligence reports.

Keywords : ntelligence; data analysis; police; decision making; methodology (Tesauro Unesco).

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