Law Enforcement Intelligence consolidated a relevant position, in Brazil and globally, from the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s as a necessary response to transnational organized crime.

Since then, both in support of executive decision-making processes by the Police and other public security bodies as far as supporting the tactical and operational levels of policing, prevention, repression and, deterrence, the activity has been developing in the country (Brazil), often serving as an efficiency parameter for policies and operations against transnational organized crime.

Such development has occurred both in the empirical-police and academic-scientific fields, feeding doctrinal, bibliographic, and research production in the thematic area.

On the other hand, the use of techniques and methods derived from intelligence in police and public security activities, including their judicial and prosecutable consequences, remains a daily challenge for both police operators and scholars on the subject. In fact, it is an activity that, considering the potential collisions of fundamental rights and guarantees involved during its exercise, requires a constant link with the foundations of the Democratic Rule of Law, a society pillar for which police intelligence must necessarily operate, seeking the fulfillment of the fundamental right to public security.