Advanced Analytical Techniques (AANALT)

Purpose

The point where the need for advanced training has been identified. Managers and supervisors of intelligence analysis units, as well as senior intelligence analysts, have emphasized the importance of formal working knowledge and practice of critical thinking techniques, and also the importance of keeping current regarding new and topical analytical methods. Such advanced training is intended to add intellectual complexity and sophistication to one’s intelligence analysis.

The Canadian Police College (CPC) currently offers two courses that introduce participants to the essential elements and practices of both tactical and strategic intelligence analysis (the Tactical Intelligence Analysis Course - TIAC and the Strategic Intelligence Analysis Course - SIAC). The purpose of these advanced workshops or courses is to help participants enhance and build on their current analytical skills and techniques, above and beyond what is covered within the TIAC and SIAC. In these workshops or courses, participants will explore and develop advanced critical thinking and methodological skills and techniques by applying them to law enforcement intelligence analysis. These new workshops or courses have been developed by and for seasoned analysts and will become part of the CPC’s intelligence analysis curriculum.

CNIA 10-01

July 26 to 30, 2010

Counter-Narcotics Intelligence Analyst Workshop

Chuck Johnston and Ray King of the US Defense Intelligence Agency will deliver a Counter-narcotics Intelligence Analyst Workshop at the Canadian Police College. This workshop starts with an examination of the counterdrug efforts at the strategic, operational and tactical levels from both a National Defence and a law enforcement perspective. The workshop then examines the nature of organized criminal activity in drug trafficking. Tools, techniques and procedures for analyzing these organizations include, but are not limited to: matrix analysis, link analysis, telecommunications analysis, visual investigative analysis and critical path analysis. To reinforce these analytical skills, students will participate in numerous practical exercises and a final comprehensive analysis of a narco-trafficking organization.

Objectives

1. To understand the nature of organized criminal activity in drug trafficking and the process of analyzing these organizations.
2. To understand analytical tools and techniques used in counter-narcotics intelligence analysis and to demonstrate comprehension of these tools in a series of practical exercises

Topical Agenda

• Roles of Intelligence Analysis in Counter-Narcotics (CN) operations
• Drugs of Abuse
• Telecommunications Analysis
• Commodity Flow Analysis
• Critical Path Analysis
• Visual Investigative Analysis
• Pattern Trend Analysis
• Time Event Analysis
• Intelligence Preparation of the Counterdrug Environment (Ground, Maritime and / or Urban)
• Review of Matrix Analysis and Link Analysis as necessary
• Final comprehensive exercise
  

Participant Selection Criteria

Interested applicants for this workshop must meet the following selection criteria. Applicants must:

• be full-time intelligence analysts with at least three years of experience as tactical and/or strategic criminal intelligence analysts

Participant Assessment

Participants taking this workshop will be assessed against the workshop learning objectives. They will be assessed in several ways, including in-class interactive group activities. Participants taking this workshop should note that a high degree of participation will be expected of them in order to successfully complete this training.

Logistics

Duration: five working days
Location: Canadian Police College campus - Ottawa
Number of participants: 30
Language of instruction: English

WAW 10-02

Writing for Analysis Workshop

Oct. 18 - 21, 2010

David Cariens Jr. will deliver a writing workshop at the Canadian Police College. Mr. Cariens served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for 31 years before retiring in 1997. This workshop is four days of training designed to familiarize participants with the basic writing principles used throughout the Intelligence Community (IC), and to give them practice in developing their skills in using those principles. The workshop also examines intelligence successes and failures, and looks at the ethics of the intelligence profession.

Objectives

1. To be familiar with the basic paragraph form of intelligence writing – the Inverted Pyramid style – and to practice writing paragraphs in that style.
2. To recognize and practice concise sentence structure and word choice.
3. To practice and improve their skills to draw on a wide variety of intelligence sources, determine what the main points are, and present those points in a tightly written paragraph.

Topical Agenda

• Keys to good Intelligence writing
• Principles of English used in the Intelligence Community
• Tips for Fine-Tuning Intelligence Writing
• Frequent Mistakes Made in Intelligence Writing
• The Not So Subtle Subtleties of English
• Intelligence significance of the source
• The Importance of Words
• Five Principles Behind Intelligence Writing

Participant Selection Criteria

Interested applicants for this workshop must meet the following selection criteria:

• be full-time intelligence analysts with at least three years of experience as tactical and/or strategic criminal intelligence analysts;

Participant Assessment

Pre-workshop Exercise: Workshop participants are given a package of phony Intelligence sources and asked to answer the following question, “What does the intelligence and military activity mean? ”The answer must be written in an Intelligence paragraph of no more than 125 words. The papers will be edited before the class begins and threewill be selected to be put on the board (anonymous). As a class we will edit the papers using Intelligence writing principles.

Participants taking this workshop will be assessed against the workshop learning objectives. They will be assessed in several ways, including in-class interactive group activities. Participants taking this workshop should note that a high degree of participation will be expected of them in order to successfully complete this training.

Logistics

Duration: four working days
Location: Canadian Police College campus - Ottawa
Number of participants: 24
Language of instruction: English