Columbus Police Department's Criminal Intelligence Unit
Summary of Agency
The Columbus Division of Police is organized into six subdivisions. The subdivisions include the Administrative, Investigative, Support Services, Homeland Security, and two Patrol subdivisions: North and South. Each subdivision is commanded by a Deputy Chief. The nature of each task to be performed determines which subdivision has responsibility and authority.
The individual subdivisions are further divided into bureaus or zones, each of which fulfills a more specific mission. Each zone or bureau is supervised by a police commander.
The zones or bureaus are subdivided into sections or watches and are commanded by a police lieutenant or civilian employee of equivalent position. The sections and watches are broken down into precincts, units, squads, or teams. Each is commanded by a police sergeant or civilian.
The Division of Police operates in a semi-military manner. Authority descends from superior to subordinate and responsibility ascends from subordinate to superior. More information regarding the Columbus Police Department can be found here:
http://www.columbuspolice.org/
Intern Responsibilities
The Columbus Police Department Criminal Intelligence Unit is seeking one unpaid volunteer undergraduate intern to assist with investigative case management. The internship will provide students with basic investigative training and training on the ACISS case management system (a web-based intelligence system used nationally by law enforcement agencies). Students will help with tracking and researching criminal gangs and domestic terrorists, data entry and link analysis, and detailed research on individuals, locations, organizations & vehicles.
The intern will practice and develop the following skills:
- Acquire the knowledge and skills of intelligence analysis throughout the internship.
- Provide dedicated analytical support to investigations, programs, and operations.
- Learn and effectively utilize the Intelligence Cycle. (Research, Analyze, and write or brief)
- Effectively use critical thinking, critical writing, and critical communication to support the intelligence cycle.
- Maintain liaison and network with other law enforcement agencies; local, state and federal.
- Understand the role of a hypothesis in the intelligence process to confirm or deny a theory that can focus further data collection efforts.
- Collect data through Open Source, Public Records, internal police files etc.
- Collate information and organize the intelligence (Events, Business Records, Document Exploitation, Charts, Biographies, and Associates)
- Learn and utilize basic computer applications as well as analytical software tools to support the intelligence cycle.
- Understand how to evaluate information based on reliability, sensitivity, validity, and relevancy.
- Acquire a deep familiarity of the ‘analysis steps’ (hypotheses, premises, conclusions, compare & contrast, summarize, and be able to interpret the significance)
- Provide to the investigative subdivision the facts, findings, and forecasts obtained from the analytical process.
- Learn the different intelligence products and be able to disseminate the intelligence through the different types (written, oral, and visual)
- Gain an understanding of the different intelligence reports: debriefings, threat assessments, bulletins, intelligence summaries, document analysis.
- Gain an understanding of the different intelligence products: organizational link charts, timelines, flow charts, tolls
- Learn and be able to explain the three different levels of intelligence (tactical, operational, and strategic)
- Understand the difference between crime/incident based intelligence and threat based intelligence.
- Effectively be able to create intelligence products in support of investigations, policy, and for informational purposes.
Qualifications
The applicant must be a Junior or Senior with an excellent academic record. Please note that a thorough background check including a polygraph test is required for this position. A student must work 10 hours per week minimum in this position, and be simultaneously enrolled for internship credit hours. Familiarity with Microsoft office is a plus, foreign language skills is a plus, and the selected intern must be “of good moral character” with an interest in law enforcement and justice issues.
Location/Hours
The selected intern should be available during business hours and will work on-site at the Columbus Police Department.
Application
For further information on this opportunity, please contact the CJRC Program Manager – Christopher Yanai. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to: Christopher Yanai, Program Manager (614) 688-8685, Email: Yanai.7@osu.edu
Note: This is an unpaid internship. Academic credit for Research or Internship is available. Applications will begin to be reviewed on 8/1/2015.