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    Contribution of criminal intelligence in the war against crime in Tanzania mainland
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2011) Feleshi, Eliezer Mbuki
    The statistics available in the Police Force adequately showed that the increasing number of criminal activities in the country from the 1980s demonstrated how normal crime prevention and control measures by the police had failed to contain the problem. An exploratory study based on documentary review and field research was therefore undertaken to investigate the contribution of criminal intelligence in the war against crime in Tanzania Mainland. The study has revealed that the police criminal intelligence service in the country is still immature, not spread countrywide, reliant on old models of reacting to reported crime incidents and under-resourced. Due to lack of integrity and cooperation, and other problems, intelligence and investigative agencies have not fully exploited the intelligence collected from various sources to repress the prevalence of crime, and has thus caused crime reports which are reported to them but ignored, to be subsequently successfully investigated and prosecuted adhering to directives given by bureaucrats. This work further portrays that the lessons learnt from the Tanganyika British’s rule Police Special Branch, and from other jurisdictions where police forces are backed up by fully-fledged systematic criminal intelligence service capable of detecting and preventing crime, rather than simply waiting to react to them, if adopted and utilized, would enable the police to reduce the crime rate. The work therefore recommends a number of steps to remedy the deficiencies in the present set-up, including establishing an independent, robust and ethical criminal intelligence division in the Police Force that is supplied with adequate resources and guidelines, so that criminal intelligence and investigative agencies and other stakeholders cooperate in combating crime.