Intelligence Analysis

Assignment Questions
7129PS

Module Leader: Adrian James PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons)

Reader in Police Studies
Email: a.d.james@ljmu.ac.uk
1 Assignment Questions
Your assessment for 7129PS Intelligence Analysis is in two parts.

1. Essay (2,000 words) representing 30% of the total mark

2. Portfolio (3,000 words) representing 70% of the total mark

You must complete BOTH assignments.

Note: please also refer to the Module Booklet and the section on Assignment Details.

Assignment 1:

Essay
2,000 Words
Weighing: 30%
Research cases of intelligence failures in the military, security, law enforcement or corporate milieu
(choose the sector in which you are most interested or which is most relevant to your profession). Select
three cases where the principal cause of the intelligence failure was identified as a failure of acceptance.

• Critically examine the cases

• Critically assess the extent to which factors other than those identified in the subsequent inquiry
as significant also may have been relevant to those failures.

Assignment 2:

Portfolio (Essay & Reflection)

3,000 Words
Weighing: 70%
Consider this statement made by US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, in the wake of the 9/11
attacks - ‘We basically went from no information to floods. It just started flooding with everything. So
now you were getting unassessed intelligence. You know, just about anything anyone said, might be a
threat’ (cited in Bumiller, 2009 p.168).

a) Critically assess the impact of information overload for effective, efficient, and ethical intelligence
practice (2000 words).

b) Briefly reflect on what you have learned about intelligence pathologies (Sheptycki, 2004 and
Stanier, 2013) and how they may be relevant to your own practice (1000 words).

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2 Assignment Submission Details

The deadline for BOTH assignments is:

Friday 3rd April 2020

All assignments should be uploaded via Turnitin. You will have the opportunity to upload draft
assignments and final assignments. The draft assignment submission will allow you to check your
similarity score to ensure that your work could not be perceived as plagiarism. Once you have checked
that, you can submit the final version of your assignment for marking.

There are two parts to the assessment - please ensure you upload the correct part to the correct
section.

You will need to include a cover sheet with your assessment. The sheet should include the following
information:

Your Full Name:

Course Code & Name:
Module Code: 7129PS
Module name: Intelligence Analysis
Your enrolled course Level: PGCert/PGDip or MSc

Please name the file with the course code, assessment part and your surname.

Full details on how to upload your assessments may be found on the module homepage.

Discussion

Please post any queries about the assignment on the forum so that your fellow students can benefit
from the answer. Alternatively, you may email the module leader direct.

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