Knowledge-managed policing framework for Communication Tnterception Technologies (CIT) in criminal justice system

Abstract

This is a conceptual paper on Communication Interception Technologies (CIT) within the criminal justice system because little substantive research exits, outside of the military/defence and national security domains, on several methodological issues surrounding the use of CIT particularly in a policing context. The paper proposes the adoption of an organising framework based on a Knowledge-Managed Policing (KMP) approach to the use of CIT to effectively address methodological concerns. The paper initially overviews what is characteristically involved in a Knowledge-Managed Policing perspective. It concentrates of three key dimensions that of police practitioners' knowledge as the basis of a KMP system; the technological processes which support a KMP system; and the organisational context of police work from a KMP perspective. Then the conceptual dimensions of CIT are briefly outlined and discussed with reference to adopting a KMP framework. The paper concludes with some speculative comments on the suitability of KMP as a regulatory framework for CIT.