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Programme 4: Crime Intelligence11.1 Purpose
Manage crime intelligence and analyse crime information, and provide technical support forinvestigations and crime prevention operations.

11.2 Measurable objectives
Contribute to the neutralization of crime by gathering, collating and analysing intelligence
information that leads to an actionable policing activity.
There are two subprogrammes:
Crime Intelligence Operations provides for intelligence-based crime investigations.

Intelligence and Information Management provides for the analysis of crime intelligence patterns
to facilitate crime detection, in support of crime prevention and crime investigation.

2008/2009

Through its various national and provincial linked components, Crime Intelligence has establishedcoverage throughout the country which extends down to station level. Cooperation with foreign
law enforcement agencies is done through platforms such as Interpol and the Southern African
Regional Police Chiefs Coordinating Committee. This has extended the reach of Crime Intelligencebeyond the national borders. In keeping with legislative requirements, the operational activities of
Crime Intelligence are confined to the borders of South Africa.

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Crime intelligenceproducts

Neutralised threats

OutputNumber of crime
intelligenceproducts.

Number ofoperations
conducted toneutralize crime
threats5.

Measure/Indicator

Maintain or increase7

Maintain or increase6

TargetIncreased from 95 848
reports in 2007/2008 to142 020 reports in2008/2009.

Decreased from 18 631
operations in 2007/2008
to 17 035 operations in2008/2009.

Actual performance against
target

The restructuring of the Division CrimeIntelligence during 2008/2009 which
led to the establishment of a crime
intelligence capacity in all 1 116 station
precincts and the establishment of sucha capacity in all 176 cluster stations.
This led to a more focused approach inthe collection of crime information andintelligence, coupled with the merging
of large numbers of intelligence driven
operations with the same focus andtargets, especially on cluster level.
Increase of 46 122 in the number ofreports due to more focused collection ofcrime-related information and intelligence(ground coverage).

Decrease of 1 536 in the number ofoperations due to:Deviation & Reason

2008/2009

Crime Intelligence operations with regard to Social fabric-related contact crimes are usually only conducted in cases where serial murderers, serial rapist and pedophiles areinvolved.
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The type of threat will determine the frequency of operations conducted.
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The type of threat will determine the frequency of intelligence products (reports) generated.

5Intelligence and Information
Management

Crime Intelligence
Operations

Subprogrammes

Table 24: Actual performance against target

11.3 Service delivery achievements

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11.4 Service delivery objectives and indicators
11.4.1 Subprogramme:  Crime Intelligence Operationsa)

Operations conducted to neutralise crime threats

Threats are neutralized through overt and covert operations at various levels of activity.
Crime Intelligence conducted or contributed to a total of 17 035 operations. The
intelligence/information gathered resulted in the arrest of 14 444 individuals andthe recovery of goods/items with an estimated value of R 3 998 878 971.00. These
operations – which focused on violent organized crime, security intelligence, propertyrelated crime and crimes dependent on police action for detection – comprised ofIntelligence operations, Court operations and Ad hoc operations.

Intelligence operations
Intelligence operations are operations undertaken by Crime Intelligence to gather
intelligence/information to better understand a situation. The intelligence/information
is used to generate more focused operations. For the 2008/2009 financial year CrimeIntelligence conducted 8 103 operations of this nature.

Court operations

2008/2009

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Court operations are operations undertaken by Crime Intelligence, together with theDetective Service, to generate intelligence/ information that could be turned into
evidence for use in a court of law. During the period under review, a total of 2 373 court
operations were conducted.

Ad hoc operations
Ad hoc operations are operations initiated by other components within the SAPS
using intelligence/information supplied by Crime Intelligence. 6 559 operations wereconducted for the period under review.

11.4.2 Subprogramme:  Intelligence and Information Managementa)

Intelligence and information products

For the financial year under review, Crime Intelligence produced a total of 142 020
reports. This consisted of 9 953 strategic reports; 40 131 tactical reports; 22 370 crime
prevention reports; and 69 566 information reports.

Strategic intelligence /information products


These products were provided to the National Commissioner, the Minister for Safety
and Security, the Presidency and political decision-makers at national and provinciallevel. For the year under review, a total of 9 953 strategic intelligence and informationproducts relating to the following were produced:

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Category

Number of reports

Violent organised crime

3 269

Security intelligence

1 903

Property-related crime

3 655

Crimes dependent on police action

1 090

Other crimes

36

Total

9 953

Tactical intelligence /information products
Tactical information was used to guide operational units to specific locations wheresuspects linked to a variety of crimes were arrested and property was seized. A total of
40 131 tactical products relating to the following were compiled:
Category

Number of reports

Violent organised crime

13 850

Security intelligence

6 825

Property-related crime

9 982

Crimes dependent on police action

4 002

Other Crimes

5 472

Total

40 131

Crime prevention intelligence/information products

Crime prevention intelligence/information reports were forwarded to operational
units for the purpose of preventing the perpetration of certain criminal acts. They werealso used to determine the force and resources required for deployment to addressidentified crime threats effectively. During the period under review, Crime Intelligencecompiled and forwarded 22 370 reports relating to the following:
Category

Number of reports

Violent organised crime

5 528

Security intelligence

4 805

Property-related crime

9 870

Crimes dependent on police action

1 757

Other crimes

410

Total

22 370Information products

Crime Intelligence compiled a total of 69 566 information products during the year
under review. The information products assisted divisional commissioners andprovincial commissioners in making decisions on the identification of areas susceptibleto criminal activity, the appropriate deployment of resources to address crime in
identified areas, and the identification of organised crime-related risks. These reports
related to the following:

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Category

Number of reports

Violent organised crime

19 779Security intelligence

13 440Property-related crime

18 514

Crimes dependent on police action

7 127

Other crimes

10 706

Total69 5662008/2009
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