Israel Police

The Intelligence Department's responsibilities require it to:

Collect, store, evaluate and distribute intelligence relating to crime fighting, public order and internal security; Maintain collaboration with overseas police forces involved in international operations and operate I.P. officers stationed abroad; Draw up an annual status report on the intelligence aspect of I.P. work for planning purposes and conduct nationwide intelligence operations;
THE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT Hold HQ responsibility for the I.P.'s own internal security. The Department has 3 divisions -- Research, Information Gathering & Technologies, and Special Duties. It is the duty of the Intelligence Department to provide the I.P.'s policy makers and field operations commanders a comprehensive, updated and objective picture of the I.P.'s ever-changing operational environment -- criminal activity of all kinds, public order, and terrorism -- as the basis for situation assessments, policy-making, and operational decisions. The Department also has a central role in detecting and dismantling criminal and anti-security activity and, through its concealed techniques and devices, in providing evidence against perpetrators. The basic intelligence-gathering methods are surveillance and detective work and running undercover agents. The intelligence is then stored, evaluated and distributed where needed as the basis for short- and long-term decisions. The Department naturally works closely with other intelligence and enforcement agencies in Israel (e.g. Military Police investigators and the Prisons and Customs services).
Another Department responsibility is to maintain the I.P.'s links with Interpol (the international agency coordinating between national police services and overseeing measures against international crime). The Department also takes charge of I.P. operations outside Israel's borders and commands the I.P.'s officers stationed abroad as part of the international effort against organized crime and in order to provide input on Israeli criminals with overseas links.
Also an Intelligence Department function is the internal security of the I.P. itself (personal security clearances and protecting the I.P.'s methods, plans, and data).