Intelligence Trade Craft Learning Programme
15 June 2007
Twenty two intelligence operatives from the country's four internal
intelligence agencies were awarded certificates after completing an intensive
nine-week Intelligence Trade Craft Learning Programme at the South African
Police Service (SAPS) Training Institution in Hammanskraal, outside Pretoria,
today.
The Intelligence Trade Craft Learning Programme was designed and developed
to equip intelligence operatives with the knowledge, skills and attributes to
understand, identify and, plan the exploitation of resources to collect
information.
An integrated approach is being adopted in the joint implementation of the
programme, hence the inclusion of learners and trainers from the National
Intelligence Agency, Defence Intelligence, SAPS Crime Intelligence and Military
Intelligence.
The learning programme is nine weeks long, it commenced on 16 April and
ended on 15 June 2007, and the modules included the collection of intelligence,
recruitment of sources, operational management of sources and surveillance,
pursuit and counter surveillance techniques.
The Intelligence Trade Craft Learning Programme makes use of specific
methodology. Apart from adult learning based in classroom interventions, it
also allows for practical, reality-based simulated exercises which involve
learners being taken from the classroom environment into the field to perform
activities relating to trade craft.
South African Police Service Divisional Commissioner for Training Gary
Kruser said the programme would allow the police crime intelligence operatives
to perform their relevant roles in the broader intelligence environment, and
also to pursue individual intelligence investigations.
"This partnership also facilitated the transfer of skills in operational
issues and intelligence training. In future, each agency will be implementing
the Intelligence Trade Craft Learning Programme independently in their
respective environments," Commissioner Kruser said.
Speaking at the same function, Deputy National Commissioner of SAPS Mala
Singh, who presented the certificates to the successful learners, told the
intelligence managers and their operatives that the programme was indeed a
first step in fostering a partnership and conducting a joint venture between
various intelligence agencies.
Commissioner Singh said the security agencies faced highly sophisticated
criminal syndicates and criminally inspired individuals who pursued a complex
web of illegal activities worldwide.
"I know being intelligence operative is a difficult and a dangerous job. You
risk your lives every day, you are tasked with handling some of the most
sensitive and important investigations of our country, and you help provide an
environment in which individuals, families and, their communities can pursue
and fulfil their dreams," Commissioner Singh said.
The occasion was attended by, among others, the Director-General of the
National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr Manala Manzini, NIA's General Manager of
Counter Intelligence, Mr Ramabulana, Provost Marshal General for Military
Police, Brigadier-General Ledwaba, and the Chief Director of Intelligence
Support for Defence Intelligence, Brigadier-General Odendaal.
The Intelligence Trade Craft Learning Programme is an entry requirement for
the advanced Counter Terrorism Learning Programme.
Enquiries:
Selby Bokaba
Cell: 082 778 0245
Issued by: South African Police Service
15 June 2007
