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O*NET detailed work activityExamine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities
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AI can get you up to speed fast and suggest where to look, but you need to confirm findings against real sources, records or people.
Part of Investigate criminal or legal matters, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (3 AI-ready, 13 AI-assist, 3 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
- Analyze completed police reports to determine what additional information and investigative work is needed.
- Perform forensic investigations of operating or file systems.
- Examine records and governmental agency files to find identifying data about suspects.
- Examine records to locate links in chains of evidence or information.
- Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.
- Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.
- Identify gaps in information.
- Perform file signature analysis to verify files on storage media or discover potential hidden files.
- Obtain and analyze information on suspects, crimes, or disturbances to solve cases, to identify criminal activity, or to gather information for court cases.
- Investigate security incidents, using computer forensics, network forensics, root cause analysis, or malware analysis.
- Analyze log files or other digital information to identify the perpetrators of network intrusions.
- Predict future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
- Obtain and verify evidence by interviewing and observing suspects and witnesses or by analyzing records.
- Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
- Search computer databases, credit reports, public records, tax or legal filings, or other resources to locate persons or to compile information for investigations.
- Gather and evaluate information, using tools such as aerial photographs, radar equipment, or sensitive radio equipment.
- Perform web service network traffic analysis or waveform analysis to detect anomalies, such as unusual events or trends.