This report assesses the activities of organized crime groups, terrorist groups, and narcotics traffickers in general in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, focusing mainly …
Organized Crime and Terrorist Activity in Mexico, 1999-2002
This study is based on open source research into the scope of organized crime and terrorist activity in the Republic of Mexico during the period 1999 to 2002, and the extent of cooperation and …
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Involvement of Russian Organized Crime Syndicates – Criminal Elements in the Russian Military, and Regional Terrorist Groups in Narcotics Trafficking in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Chechnya
This report describes the current status of narcotics trafficking in four countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), in the three former Soviet republics of the …
Asian Organized Crime and Terrorist Activity in Canada, 1999-2002
This study is based on open source research into the scope of Asian organized crime and terrorist activity in Canada during the period 1999 to 2002, and the extent of cooperation and possible overlap …
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Policing Terrorism: An Executive’s Guide
This manual is intended to help police executives and other senior executives meet the new challenges involved in countering the threat of terrorism by summarizing writings on the essential components …
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Fusion Center Guidelines: Developing and Sharing Information and Intelligence in a New Era – Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Fusion Centers at the Local, State, and Federal Levels
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) collaborated in the development of these fusion center guidelines. The intent of the partnership is to provide a …
Protecting Your Community From Terrorism: Strategies for Local Law Enforcement: The Production and Sharing of Intelligence
More than 30 Years ago, crime-fighting techniques shifted from the traditional model of policing in the 1960s to the community policing principles of the 1970s. At that time the law enforcement …
Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans
In the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001, and subsequent terrorist attacks elsewhere around the world, a key counterterrorism concern is the possible radicalization of Muslims living in …
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Office for Domestic Preparedness: Emergency Responder Guidelines
Recent tragic events have forced the citizens of the United States, and the public safety agencies that serve them, to confront the terrible potential of terrorism involving the use of weapons of mass …
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Understanding Consequences in Urban Operations
This paper addresses the concept of operational intelligence for homeland security and terrorism. It defines Intelligence Preparation for Operations (IPO), as a concept for addressing the intelligence …
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