“I Need You To Tell Me What’s Going On Here”: Analyse the Situation and Provide a Quick Assessment

Your Director Needs A Quick Assessment Before Her 9am Meeting –

Situation: You are a Criminal Intelligence Analyst working in the Avon and Somerset Police, located in Bristol UK.

You’ve been assigned to the Criminal Intelligence Branch (C.I.B) – with an operational focus on Organised Crime in Bristol, UK.

It’s 8:05am and you’ve just arrived in the office carrying a fresh coffee and toasted ham and cheese croissant.

But before you get to put the flaky-pastry to your mouth, the C.I.B Director needs to see you in her office…

…you take a quick swig of your coffee, grab your notebook and pen and head in.

“I need you to tell me what’s going on here”

She hands you a file containing a mix-mash of Police reporting, and tells you she needs a quick assessment before her meeting with the Commissioner at 9am.

This Criminal Group are up to something, and we need to know what it is –

I need you to read into the problem and provide me a quick summary.

Now to get down to business…. (click image for PDF Scenario).

Analyse the Crimson Tide Organised Criminal Syndicate

• You have less than 1 hour to read the available information and provide a quick assessment to the chief.
• She needs to know the bottom line up front – what are they doing in Bristol?
• Provide her a summary she can take to the Commissioner
• Put your response in the comments below.
• Provide her with a summary of the reporting and assessment of what you think is going on.
• Make a recommendation for further Intelligence Collection

Task

Review the information and using the comments section below, provide an quick assessment to inform your Director what is going on?

Rules

• This is a made-up scenario for exercise purposes only.
• Use what you’ve been given – there’s enough to go off.
• Feel free to ask questions, put in collection requests and post images including link diagrams, timelines etc.
• The information is in no particular order.
• Let me know if you have any issues – post in the comments or email me ben@intelligence101.com

Do you speak Spanish? Our Intelligence Training Scenario has been translated by our friends over at AETAD for our Spanish audience Check it out here – Escenario de Crimson Tide Intelligence (traducción al español).

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