First Issue of the Journal of Applied Operational Intelligence

We are pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Applied Operational Intelligence. The full issue can be accessed here. The Journal is Co-Edited by BUCSIS’s Dr Ian Stanier and Dr Jordan Nunan. The aim of the journal is to bridge the gap between academia and the intelligence practitioner community. An important component of this relationship is free access to academic research. This open access to knowledge was only made possible by the generous sponsorship from i2 (2024), an intelligence possible by the generous sponsorship of i2partner who offer the global industry standard for creating and sharing intelligence.

Articles listed in the first issue include:

• Applied Operational Intelligence: Improving Practice Through Marginal Gains
• Time Sensitive Interviews with Suspects, Witnesses, and Informants: Challenges and Opportunities An Operational Analysis of County Lines and Serious Organised Crime Data From the Police National Database Using i2 Analyst’s Notebook
• Assessing Deception Projection via OSINT: The Case of the Ukraine 2022 Counter-Offensive
• Critical Thinking for Intelligence Analysts & Police Officers: A Path to Improved Criminal Justice
• Assessing the Capacity to Build Rapport in Investigative Interviews with the Rapport-Based Inventory – Short Form (RBI-SF) Scale
• Why Does Sri Lanka Need Intelligence Reform?
• Operational Intelligence and the Spanish Guardia Civil’s Carteia Plan: An Exploratory Thematic Analysis of Police Officer Perceptions and Experiences
• Fast-tracking Trust: Exploring the Relative Importance of Competence, Integrity, and Benevolence in Informant-Handler Interactions
• Thomson, Henry. Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, The Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024