Intelligence/Investigations Function (IIF)
Intelligence/Investigations Function (IIF) : "The Intelligence/Investigations Function within the Incident Command System (ICS) provides a flexible and scalable framework that will allow for the integration of intelligence and investigations activities and information -- Defined as information that either leads to the detection, prevention, apprehension, and prosecution of criminal activities (or the individual(s) involved) including terrorist incidents or information that leads to determination of the cause of a given incident (regardless of source) such as public health events or fires with unknown origins". (FEMA, IIFOG Ver. 3, Feb 2008, 1) The Intelligence/Investigations Function provides several crucial benefits to an Incident Commander/Unified Command (IC/UC), including, but not limited to the following: (1) Provides an IC/UC with classified information, Sensitive Compartmented Information and Sensitive Information in the same manner as these types of information would be made available to Federal government personnel who may be responding to the incident. (2) Allows an IC/UC to initiate Intelligence/Investigations operations concurrently with life safety operations in order to protect evidence at crime and investigative scenes while ensuring that life safety operations remain the primary incident objective (See: Chart 1, page 4). (3) Allows an IC/UC to determine whether the incident is the result of criminal acts or terrorism, and to maximize efforts to prevent additional criminal activities or terrorism. When appropriate, provides a means of linking directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Joint Operations Center (JOC) to provide for constant information sharing to ensure that operational activities undertaken by varying agencies are not in conflict (e.g., crime scene processing, interviewing witnesses, physical surveillance), and affords coordination with other information-sharing entities including Regional Fusion Centers, Regional Intelligence Sharing Consortiums and the National Counter Terrorism Center. (4) Ensures that an IC/UC has the appropriate personnel with the necessary subject matter expertise to conduct the required intelligence/investigative operations. (Ibid, p.3)
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