The importance of prisonal intelligence to combat organized crime

This work deals with investigation activities, police intelligence and penitentiary intelligence. At first, the analysis of the main differences between police investigation, police and penitentiary intelligence is carried out, addressing the interconnection between activities and their indispensability in the fight against organized crime. The main objective is to identify the importance of the effective implementation of intelligence activity in the prison system of the State of Rio Grande do Sul as an instrument capable of preventing, neutralizing and suppressing the activity of criminal organizations, considering that the main leaders of the factions are inmates in prison houses and commanding organized crime from within the prison establishment.

KEYWORDS: Research. Investigation. Police intelligence. Penitentiary Intelligence. Prison facility. Organized crime.