text: Appendix B
  operations, time-sensitive operations, or policing strategies necessary to forecast, anticipate, and preempt
  crime or related disruptive activities to maintain order.
  B-47. Police intelligence is the product resulting from the collection, processing, analysis, and integration of
  criminal intelligence and crime analysis about crime, disorder, criminal activity, and criminal threats
  (FM 3-39). Police intelligence provides commanders and MPs with a complete picture of the criminal
  environment. (See FM 3-39.)
  B-48. The following provide a framework for and understanding of police intelligence operations:
  ⚫ Police information is information collected during military police operations concerning crime,
  disorder, criminal activity, and criminal threats (FM 3-39).
  ⚫ Crime analysis is the systematic examination and interpretation of police information to
  determine when, where, and why crime, disorder, fear of crime, and other destabilizing events
  occur in specific places (FM 3-39).
  ⚫ Criminal intelligence is police information compiled, analyzed, and disseminated in an effort to
  anticipate, prevent, or monitor criminal activity (FM 3-39).
  Note. Police intelligence operations is not an MI task. However, it is within the provide support
  to situational understanding IWFT that police intelligence operations best supports the operations
  process and informs the intelligence process. Police intelligence operations is essential to this task,
  particularly where irregular threats (criminal, terrorist, and insurgent) threaten the security of U.S.
  forces and military operations. Police intelligence operations supports and enhances the
  commander’s situational awareness and common operational picture through planning and
  directing, collecting and processing, producing (crime and criminal analysis), and disseminating
  relevant police intelligence products. Police intelligence operations consists of vital law
  enforcement and criminal investigation tools that distribute and focus MP and criminal
  investigation assets. U.S. Codes, executive orders, DOD directives, and Army regulations contain
  specific guidance regarding the prohibition of intelligence personnel from collecting intelligence
  on U.S. persons, U.S. corporations, and resident aliens. Any access by the U.S. intelligence
  community to information or products due to police intelligence operations directed against U.S.
  persons should undergo competent legal review.
  Plan and Direct (2.2.6.1)
  B-49. Planning information collection leverages unique DA Criminal Investigation Division and MP
  capabilities (such as special agents, detention specialists, military working dogs), skills, and knowledge to
  understand crime environments and organized criminal activity relevant to current and future operations.
  MPs direct collection assets through the operations process and the Army planning methodologies (Army
  problem solving, Army design methodology, the MDMP, the rapid decision-making and synchronization
  process, and troop leading procedures) based on the information collection plan. MPs direct collection assets
  through the tasking process based on the information collection plan. Collection assets typically consist of
  organic or attached MP patrols, but they may include other specialty MP personnel such as DA Criminal
  Investigation Division special agents, detention specialists, or military working dog teams.
  Collect and Process (2.2.6.2)
  B-50. Collection of police information is a continuous activity. MPs identify gaps in existing police
  information and develop intelligence requirements. This collection can be completed through several means:
  MP patrols, police engagement, criminal investigations, collected evidence, database queries, and the use of
  intelligence reach centers. Collection efforts also assist in enhancing protection operations and antiterrorism
  by identifying potential criminal threat and other threat activities. (See ATP 3-39.20.)