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UK: Met police intelligence

01 September 1995

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The London Metropolitan Police have a new form - "Form 5020" - as part of the its new SID system (SID stands for: Systems for Intelligence and Detection). Evaluation of intelligence put into by officers is graded into four categories according to its source. Category A describes a source where there is no doubt about its "trustworthiness and competence"; Category B: where the source is generally has proved reliable in the past; Category C: where a source has "generally proved unreliable previously"; and Category X: where there is serious doubt about the source's trustworthiness. Critics wonder why intelligence from "unreliable" sources or where there are "serious doubts" is put into the system? Working on the theory that 67% of crime is committed by 7% of criminals suspects are put into three categories: "prom noms" for most active prominent suspects who will be monitored if they go to prison with their visitors and cell mates recorded; "dev noms", developing nominals for suspects not previously known; and "ag-noms", for agency nominals for suspects operating across police divisional boundaries. The Job, 21.7.95 & 18.8.95.

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