Amy Gledden
Manager, State Intelligence Division, Victoria Police
After 16 years as a sworn police officer, Amy Gledden transferred to an unsworn Senior Specialist Analyst position in February 2012. Amy manages the State Intelligence Unit and Centre for Intelligence Discipline who recently developed the Victoria Police Intelligence Doctrine (VPID) which was launched by the Chief Commissioner on 27 June 2012. The VPID will provide an accountable policy framework for intelligence and T&C processes and products. Amy has worked within the intelligence discipline for 10 years, with a particular interest in strategic intelligence and drivers of crime.
Amy commenced with the Police Department at 19 and worked her way up through the ranks with a variety of positions, including a posting at the Collingwood Police Station. She began working in Intelligence, interspersed with postings to state regions to keep in tune with the community, this being the normal route to promotion. She said intelligence gathering in the Police force began in the 1930s, expanding in the 1960s to cover Homicide intelligence. Victoria adopted the UK model but this has now been adapted to suit local conditions. An increasing range of areas are requiring the collection of intelligence, such as family violence, road accidents, where predictions based on intelligence can lower the road toll, and certain key areas of crime. Intelligence is now recognised as a skilled career and methods of collection and distribution are being updated and trialled , such as the use of Ipads and the exchange of information between states to maximise results.