The Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training (FIAT) Program

Mission Statement:

The mission of the FIAT Program is to provide quality analytic training, using experienced analysts, to IALEIA members and other interested parties at a reasonable cost on a regional basis.

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March 22-26, 2010 Tallahassee, FL (Class is FULL)

Pat Thomas College: Florida Public Safety Institute will cover student tuition, housing, and meals. Please contact Heather Dobbins at DOBBINSH@tcc.fl.edu.

April 12-16, 2010 Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center are holding a FIAT course (closed/no seats currently available).

April 19-23, 2010 Ottawa, CAN (Class is full as of 2/17/2010)

Environment Canada is hosting a FIAT course, open to any Canadian law enforcement agency.
Contact Dave McClocklin at dave.mcclocklin@ontario.ca.

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We are looking for additional locations to host FIAT classes in 2010... and beyond!

Contact Elise Dekoschak (edekoschak@azdps.gov) for details.

The FIAT is a five-day introduction to the basics of law enforcement intelligence analysis. As the name indicates, the FIAT Program aims to provide a foundation, a basic knowledge and understanding, of the elements of the law enforcement analysis profession. It was designed to be an entry-level curriculum.

Course topics include:

• History of Intelligence
• Legal Issues/Ethics
• Sources of Information
• Creative/Critical Thinking
• Logic
• Inference Development
• Competing Hypotheses
• Crime Pattern Analysis
• Association Analysis
• Flow Analysis
• Strategic Analysis
• Communication Analysis
• Products of Analysis

The FIAT course is intended for civilian and sworn law enforcement, as well as regulatory personnel who have not received formal, basic, intelligence analysis training or those who require a refresher.

Evaluations are completed after each FIAT and cover the course modules and each instructor. The goal is continual improvement of the product.

Certified FIAT instructors are available in the US, Canada, Europe and the United Kingdom, to provide your agency or organization with quality training. They are all experienced, working professional analysts in the field, who have been certified by IALEIA and the LEIU.

For further details contact the Interim FIAT Coordinator, Elise Dekoschak at edekoschak@azdps.gov

The FIAT curriculum is guided by IALEIA’s Analytic Standards document and is in line with the US Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative. It meets the training standards requirements set out in the US National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP).

The FIAT meets the Criteria for basic level certification with IALEIA. It also meets the minimum training requirements set by the Society of Certified Criminal Analysts.

FIAT is a cooperative venture of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU)

The FIAT course is approved for agency funding reimbursement by US-DHS (must be coordinated with your state grant coordinator).

FIAT Schedule

Recent courses:

November 28-December 4, 2009 Tucson, AZ

Currently the majority of courses are closed agency courses. Occasionally a host will “open” unused seats to the analytical community. These may be advertised locally, or on occasion, posted in this section of the IALEIA website.

AGENCIES & ORGANIZATIONS: Any agencies or organizations interested in the FIAT Program are encourged to contact the Program Coordinator. We can provide closed agency or open registration hosted agency courses.

INDIVIDUALS: If you would like to be notified by email if a host has open seats, please contact Heather Dobbins at DOBBINSH@tcc.fl.edu and ask to be added to our notification list.

The FIAT Coordinator is currently working with an several agencies scheduling FIATs. Please continue to watch this site for courses that have openings.

FIAT is always looking for a host willing to have an open course that we can advertise to our membership and the law enforcement intelligence community. This is a great way to bring the course to your area, even if you don’t have enough internal members to fill the class to its limit of 24.

Fees:

The cost associated with each course will be determined based on the estimated expenses related to the training session. IALEIA members will receive a $50.00 discount from the fee for the course.

For further details contact the Interim FIAT Coordinator,

Elise Dekoschak at edekoschak@azdps.gov

The History: Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training

In early 2004, the IALEIA Board decided to take the Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training course it had developed in a consortium including the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), the Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Project Directors and the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (L.E.I.U.) and facilitate ways for IALEIA chapters to provide this training at a reasonable cost in their areas. IALEIA has made it a priority to assemble an experienced cadre of experienced analysts to teach this basic intelligence analysis course regionally. In the fall of 2005, the Department of Homeland Security issued a mandate for standardized training for all newly hired analysts who are paid with DHS grant funds. The IALEIA FIAT is one of the two training courses listed as meeting the requirement.