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IALEIA Certification

formerly The Society of Certified Criminal Analysts (SCCA)

certificate

Law Enforcement Analyst Standards

Purpose

The purpose of the IALEIA Certification Program is to promote professionalism and high standards in analysis by establishing standards and testing and by certifying analysts. Certified analysts tend to be among the more experienced and educated analysts and frequently hold higher classifications in their respective organizations. Some agencies encourage IALEIA certification for analysts seeking promotion or employment. Many agencies financially support their analysts in becoming certified.

Countries in which analysts have been certified include Canada, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.

(Posted July 21, 2009) Several components of the IALEIA Professional Certification Program are currently under review. Updates to the program will be posted in the near future.

CERTIFICATION EXAM-INFORMATION

ATTENTION ALL IALEIA MEMBERS DESIRING TO TAKE THE CERTIFICATION EXAM

The certification test is undergoing revision and is being rewritten. The current test has been removed and is no longer available. IALEIA members can still submit their application, however, there will be a delay until the new test has been implemented.

IALEIA will review existing analytic training curriculum for use in qualifying students for IALEIA certification. The current list of approved training courses for IALEIA Certification includes:

  • Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training (FIAT)
  • Tactical Intelligence Analysis (TIAC-80 Hours) - Canadian Police College
  • Strategic Intelligence Analysis (SIAC-80 Hours) - Canadian Police College
  • Short Course in Intelligence Analysis - 4Knowledge Analysis Solutions
  • Strategic Intelligence Analysis (80 Hours) - Intelligence Study Centre/ College of Intelligence Studies
  • Florida Law Enforcement Analyst Academy (6 Weeks)
  • Criminal Intelligence Analysis (80 Hours) - ANACAPA
  • Counterdrug Criminal Intelligence Analysis Course - NGB
  • Intelligence Analysis Training - The Alpha Group
  • Criminal Antiterrorism and Police Intelligence Management (CAPIM) Course (86 Hours) - U.S. Army MPS

To submit additional training courses for approval, please contact Bill Brown at brown@ialeia.org

Please click here to apply:

Certification Application

IALEIA Membership is a requirement for Certification. Please log on to the web site in order to access the application.

Please send completed applications to:

Pat Thomas Law Enforcement Academy
c/o Heather Dobbins, IALEIA Certification Program
75 College Drive, Suite 203
Havana, FL 32333

STUDY MATERIALS

IALEIA has six books on which this test is based. These books are considered primary sources of intelligence methodology and five of the six won the IALEIA award for literature.

The IALEIA test is now 100 questions (scrambled from an index of 125 questions) which are taken from these six books; the majority of the questions are from the first three books and the remainder from the second three books.

IALEIA provides these books to certification applicants at discounts as provided by the authors/publishers. Applicants may order the books through IALEIA (Pat Thomas Law Enforcement Academy) after their application for certification is submitted.

  • Intelligence 2000: Revising the Basic Elements (2001)

    Marilyn B. Peterson, Richard Wright and Bob Morehouse, editors. Sacramento, CA: L.E.I.U. and IALEIA.

    Provides an overview of intelligence and how it is managed and used in law enforcement. Chapters: Introduction, Applications of Intelligence, Staffing the Intelligence Unit, Managing the Intelligence Unit, Collection, Collation and Evaluation, Analysis, Dissemination, Reports, Evaluation, Training, Security, Intelligence Databases, and Networks, Organizations and Resources.

  • Applications in Criminal Analysis: A Sourcebook (1994 and 1998)

    Marilyn B. Peterson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press/Praeger (paperback).

    Provides overview of use of analysis for managers and practitioners. Chapters include Introduction, Techniques in Criminal Analysis, Report Applications, Violent Crime Applications, Organized Crime Applications, Narcotics Applications, White Collar Crime, Street Crime Applications, Specialists in Analysis, and Intelligence, Analysis and Policy in the Future.

  • The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (1999)

    Richards J. Heuer. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic Intelligence (CIA). Online: the Center for the Study of Intelligence's website, http://www.odci.gov/csi.

    Cognitive psychology applied to intelligence analysis. Chapters: Thinking About Thinking, Perception, Memory, Strategies for Analytic Judgment, Do You Really Need More Information?, Keeping an Open Mind, Structuring Analytical Problems, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, What are Cognitive Biases?, Biases in Evaluation of Evidence, Biases in Perception of Cause and Effect, Biases in Estimating Probabilities, Hindsight Biases, and Improving Intelligence Analysis.

  • A Guide to the Financial Analysis of Personal and Corporate Bank Records (1996, 1998 and 2002)

    Marilyn B. Peterson. Richmond, VA: National White Collar Crime Center.

    Chapters include: Introduction, Bank Record Analysis, Patterns, Unusual Activity, Indicators, Beyond the Columns, Business Record Analysis, Beyond the Columns, Business Record Analysis, Future Developments.

  • Strategic Intelligence: A Handbook for Practitioners, Managers and Users (1998)

    Don McDowell. Australia, Istana Enterprises.

    Gives an overview of the uses and methods of strategic intelligence. Chapters on General Concept, Critical Observations, Issues for Clients and Managers, Processes and Techniques, and the Analyst.

  • Crime Analysis: From First Report to Final Arrest (1995)

    Steven Gottlieb, Raj Singh, and Sheldon Arenberg. Montclair, CA: Alpha Press.

    An encyclopedia of issues relating to crime analysis. Chapters include Crime Analysis, An Historical Perspective, How to Develop a Crime Analysis Unit, How to Collect, Collate, Analyze and Disseminate Data, Feedback and Evaluation, How to Develop a Management of Patrol Operations Program, Crime Analysis and Community Policing, Statistics, How to Organize and Present Data, How to Predict When the Criminals will strike Again, How to Forecast Events, How to Analyze Time Series.

    • For pricing and ordering information, please refer to the attached Study Materials Order Form.

    New Study Materials Order Form

    Please contact Heather Dobbins at PTLEC if you require further information.

    Heather Dobbins
    Office:850-201-7081
    Fax: 850-201-7013
    DOBBINSH@tcc.fl.edu