International Journal of Current Innovation Research
Authors:
ALAO David
Publication Type: Journal article
Journal: International Journal Of Current Innovation Research
ISSN Number:
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Abstract
Intelligence has continued to occupy an indispensable place in the maintenance of border security across the world relatively due to the much expectations from intelligence agencies to proffer vital information that could be shared both from within and outside their security sphere of influence for the purpose of containing diverse security threats along existing borders. Thus, intelligence is critical to crime prevention or border control. Nevertheless, intelligence tasks could be delineated into five major stages, namely: planning and direction, gathering information and conducting research, information processing and storing, intelligence analysis of information and intelligence dissemination. Indeed, eac stage
remains highly crucial to border security sustenance.Therefore through the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, the paper focuses on one aspect of these five stages of intelligence- intelligence processes, its challenges and relevance to border security maintenance. However, the study considerably examines intelligence processes and procedures being adopted by the NCS Customs Intelligence Unit (CIU) towards securing the Nigerian borders.