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As law enforcement organizations strive to address society's challenges they face a variety of problems that differ in their severity and impact. With the opening up of borders and the formation of multi-cultural societies, the ability to integrate and share information has become an integral part of the investigative process. Similarly, the ever-present threat of terrorism impacts on the law enforcement environment continually, requiring agencies to hold, analyze and disseminate information from around the globe.

Issues such as drugs pose very different problems. Their addictive nature provides a constant source of income for those importing and supplying, as well as an unyielding financial demand for those consuming. The supply networks must be identified and the individuals brought to justice, while those whose lives are being destroyed by addiction need to be identified and helped.

Repeat offenders continue to be responsible for high proportions of criminal activity, such as theft, burglary, drug offences and vehicle crime. Law enforcement agencies need to identify the offenders quickly and effectively to minimize their impact on society.

i2 products are continually being enhanced to offer comprehensive solutions with the flexibility required to address these challenges.

Data collection

It is critical to provide analysts with tools that can quickly discern patterns and meaning from large data sets and enable them to effectively share intelligence with a variety of agencies charged with countering criminal activities.

i2 provides a suite of tools that enable investigators to capture and organize data from a wide variety of sources, discover the hidden connections in disparate data sets and effectively communicate and share intelligence with cooperating agencies.

Analysts collect data from different sources including online public records, proprietary systems, existing databases, communications records, and human intelligence. i2 software allows analysts to store, organize and access multi-source data without advanced technical expertise.

Using iBase, a database specifically designed for investigations and intelligence, analysts can quickly build and populate a database readily adapted for all types of data, allow security level access to team members and run comprehensive reports.

Access to intelligence information in existing databases is created through iBridge, a connectivity solution that enables live connections to multiple databases located throughout an organization. iBridge allows analysts to use Analyst's Notebook to query databases without learning advanced query languages or relying on a database expert.

With i2 products, analysts will spend less time searching for captured information, creating more time for analysis.

Intelligence Analysis

After collection of information, intelligence analysts need the ability to find hidden connections and meaning within volumes of disparate data. Analyst's Notebook enables analysts to quickly understand large amounts of data, uncover seemingly unrelated links and display complex information in intuitive visual charts. Charts can be generated automatically from structured data or the analyst can manually build visual products.

These charts show the relationship between people, places, events, vehicles and phone numbers. Analyst's Notebook also provides for common intelligence grading systems smeaning intelligence charts are more than just pictures. All underlying chart information is captured behind each chart entity and graded on reliability.

The charts generated with Analyst's Notebook are used to communicate complex scenarios in intelligence reports and briefings. In some cases, charts are printed and posted on walls, making the current set of information available to all. Sensitive information can be shared electronically, even to those without access to Analyst's Notebook by using i2's free ChartReader.

As information sharing grows in importance amongst law enforcement and intelligence organizations, Analyst's Notebook is often used in cross-agency operations. Information gathered by one agency can be combined with that of another by simply dragging and dropping related charts in Analyst's Notebook. Matching entities are automatically merged, cards updated and new links established on the chart. No information is deleted in the process, and color coding systems can be used to indicate the source of information contributed by each agency.

With over 2,000 law enforcement, military and intelligence organizations using i2 Analyst's Notebook, i2 products are a great way to facilitate information sharing without expensive backend IT expenditures.