Different Information Organizations to Produce the Same High Quality Intelligence: An Overview of the Police Forces in the Netherlands1

Intelligence-led policing has been an important concept for policing worldwide for more than a decade now. The concept has been implemented very differently by different police forces. In this research article, we describe the different implementations of the concept in the 25 regional police forces in the Netherlands. We focused on the way the information organization is hierarchically organized, the governance structure, the processes and products of the information organization, the organizational culture, the level of education, and the information technology tools used. We also identified... Mehr ...