Highway Safety Initiatives: Intelligence-Led Traffic Safety Policing

Intelligence-led policing is a method of law enforcement that has been adopted by many police managers to reduce crime and neighborhood problems. In this method’s simplest form, raw data and other information are analyzed and turned into actionable intelligence to guide decision making. The IACP Intelligence Summit in 2002 defined intelligence as “the combination of credible information with quality analysis—information that has been evaluated and from which conclusions have been drawn.”1