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The Criminal Intelligence Service New Brunswick (CISNB) is one of ten provincial bureaus of the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC). The CISNB bureau was established in 1978 and is located in Fredericton. The bureau is funded through a federal, provincial and municipal law enforcement sector funding agreement that is administered through the RCMP.

The mandate of CISNB is to provide facilities to ensure the timely production and exchange of criminal information and intelligence between the CISNB Provincial Bureau, its member agencies, and CISC. CISNB strives to be a provincial centre of excellence where the intelligence process is used in support of law enforcement's efforts to detect, reduce, disrupt and prevent organized crime and other
serious crime in New Brunswick. This mandate will be exercised in compliance with the laws of Canada and in the spirit of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

To accomplish our mandate and enable us to contribute to reducing the threat of organized crime and serious crime, CISNB has identified five priority areas of focus:

1. Intelligence Sharing
CISNB staff regularly liaise with intelligence officers, create and foster partnerships, as well as facilitate opportunities for the timely exchange of information between the bureau and member agencies. CISNB also manages the provincial intelligence contribution to the Automated Criminal Intelligence Information System (ACIIS).

2. Strategic Analysis
CISNB produces strategic threat assessments on organized and other serious crimes that are available to assist law enforcement in setting priorities for investigations.  The strategic impact analysis presents the current organized crime situation in the province, new trends, as well as a forecasting organized and serious crime activity that New Brunswick may encounter in the years to come.

3. Operational Support
CISNB provides administrative and analytical support to agencies and multi-disciplinary enforcement strategies to detect, prevent, combat and control the growth of organized and serious crime in New Brunswick.  Joint force operations that target organized and serious crime can also be financially supported through the CISNB Joint Forces Funding Assistance Program.

4. Professional Development
CISNB facilitates professional development opportunities for New Brunswick law enforcement officers to enhance their skills and abilities in the areas of criminal intelligence and the investigation of organized and serious crime.

5. Organized Crime Awareness
CISNB informs citizens and policy makers by delivering an accurate message of the scope and impact of organized crime in New Brunswick. A public that is informed and can recognize organized and other serious crime activity in their community play an important role in the detection and prevention of further criminal activity and fostering safe communities.

 

Definitions:

Organized crime or criminal organization, as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada, means a group, however organized, that:

      i)    is composed of three or more persons in or outside of Canada; and

      ii)   has as one of their main purposes or main activities, the facilitation or commission of one or more serious offences that, if committed, would likely result in the direct or indirect receipt of a material benefit, by the group or by any of the persons who constitute the group.

Serious crime, as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada, means an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament for which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for five years or more, or another offence that is prescribed by regulation.

Criminal intelligence is the end product of information that has been put through the intelligence process.

The intelligence process involves the collection, evaluation (for reliability and validity), collation, analysis and dissemination of criminal information.

Analysis is the process of taking information from various sources and giving it meaning, thus making it criminal intelligence.