# Intelligence Analysis and Reporting

> Collect, evaluate and analyse information and produce clear intelligence products that support decisions.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Security & Law Enforcement
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/security-law-enforcement/intelligence-analysis-and-reporting
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=intelligence-analysis-and-reporting

## Overview

Intelligence-led organisations act on analysis, not assumptions. This course covers the intelligence cycle, source evaluation, analytical techniques, link and pattern analysis, open-source intelligence, structured analytic techniques that reduce bias, and writing clear, actionable reports and briefings, with attention to legal and ethical limits.

## Who should attend

- Intelligence and crime analysts
- Investigators and security managers
- Compliance and fraud analysts
- Risk analysts

## Learning outcomes

- Apply the intelligence cycle
- Evaluate sources and information
- Use analytical techniques, including link analysis
- Reduce bias with structured analytic techniques
- Write clear intelligence reports and briefings

## Course outline

### Day 1: Intelligence foundations

- Intelligence cycle
- Types of intelligence
- Legal and ethical frameworks
- Intelligence-led policing

### Day 2: Collection

- Source evaluation
- Open-source intelligence
- Information management
- Data protection

### Day 3: Analysis

- Link and network analysis
- Pattern and trend analysis
- Geographic analysis
- Financial analysis

### Day 4: Thinking clearly

- Cognitive biases
- Analysis of competing hypotheses
- Estimative language
- Red teaming

### Day 5: Reporting

- Report writing
- Briefings
- Dissemination
- Analysis exercise