Fire Service Intelligence: Informed Strategies, Operations, and Tactics
Abstract
Fire service agencies struggle to receive and use relevant, agency-specific intelligence, which hamperstheir ability to prevent attacks, protect the community, mitigate an attacks impact, respond safely, andrecover from such events. This thesis presents the intelligence requirements necessary to support the fireservice and specifies how the fire service can use intelligence to guide strategic policy development,operational planning, and tactical decision-making. It employed a qualitative gap analysis, using a 15-question survey of fire service personnel, to compare the current state of the fire service intelligenceapparatus with a desired future state. This thesis also used case analysis to identify current intelligenceproducts to understand how well they support strategic, operational, and tactical decisions. This thesisidentifies intelligence gaps from a broader fire-service audience and offers a holistic set ofrecommendations, thus contributing to intelligence research. The gaps involve collaborating with lawenforcement on intelligence, establishing intelligence requirements to better support the fire service,handling sensitive information, and using finished intelligence for decision-making. This thesis recommendsidentifying and distributing intelligence requirements to the fire service, developing training and policyguidance on intelligence handling, and creating a joint intelligence guide.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1127048
Entities
People
- Derrick D Phillips
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School