Intelligence Analysts

Also called: Crime Analyst (Criminal Analyst), Crime Intelligence Analyst (Criminal Intelligence Analyst), Intel Analyst (Intelligence Analyst)

Career Cluster: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
What they do:
Gather, analyze, or evaluate information from a variety of sources, such as law enforcement databases, surveillance, intelligence networks or geographic information systems. Use intelligence data to anticipate and prevent organized crime activities, such as terrorism.
On the job, you would:
  • Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
  • Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
  • Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.
Knowledge icon KNOWLEDGE

Safety and Government
  • law and government
  • public safety and security
Engineering and Technology
  • computers and electronics
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • administrative services
  • customer service
Skills Image SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • reading work related information
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
People and Technology Systems
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilities Image ABILITIES

Visual Understanding
  • see hidden patterns
  • quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Ideas and Logic
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen
Verbal
  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written
Personality Image PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Tolerance for Ambiguity
  • Adaptability
  • Perseverance
  • Achievement Orientation
  • Intellectual Curiosity
  • Cautiousness
Technology Image TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Analytical or scientific software
  • SAS
  • TensorFlow
Data base user interface and query software
  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • Microsoft SQL Server
Education Image EDUCATION

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Bachelor's degree or Master's degree
usually needed
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Job Outlook Image JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are less likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $159,410.00
Median: $93,580.00
Low: $54,160.00
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