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International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship

The International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship is a professional development organization dedicated to maintaining the integrity and quality of criminal investigative analysis and behaviorally oriented investigative techniques designed to meet the critical needs of law enforcement agencies throughout the world.

 

What is Criminal Investigative Analysis?

Criminal Investigative Analysis is a process of reviewing crimes from both a behavioral and investigative perspective. It involves reviewing and assessing the facts of a criminal act, interpreting offender behavior, and interaction with the victim, as exhibited during the commission of the crime, or as displayed in the crime scene.

 

Criminal Investigative Analysis is a series of specialties contained within the investigative toolbox. Originally known as Psychological Profiling, it has evolved and adapted through the years. Now known by a myriad of names such as Behavioral Analysis, Criminal Profiling, Offender Profiling, et al, it is a collection of skills that includes crime scene reconstruction, providing traits for the unknown offender, bloodstain pattern analysis, statement analysis, crisis negotiation, interogation techniques, and behavioral assessments of crime scenes.

 

What is the ICIAF?

In 1984, the FBI began its Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship program, a yearlong training curriculum of behavioral studies open to law enforcement investigators with strong backgrounds in violent crime investigation from around the world. They attended classes at the FBI Academy and upon graduation, returned to their respective agencies as criminal profilers. The FBI discontinued the program in 1992.

 

In November 1992, the non-FBI graduates of the FBI Fellowship formed the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. The ICIAF became the training and accreditation authority for the certification of Criminal Investigative Analysts (Criminal Profilers). It undertook the responsibility of ensuring that future non-FBI Analysts would meet a minimum standard of competency prior to offering their opinions as Criminal Investigative Analysts.

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​Throughout the history of the ICIAF, members have joined from all over the world and represented a vast number of law enforcement agencies. Some of these agencies have included the following:

 Australia

  • New South Wales Police Force

  • Queensland Police Service

  • South Australia Police

  • Victoria Police

Canada

  • Calgary Police Service

  • Ontario Provincial Police

  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police

  • Sureté du Québec

Netherlands

  • Dutch National Police Agency

  • Regional Police for South Limburg

United Kingdom

  • National Crime Agency

United States

  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

  • California Department of Justice

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Florida Department of Law Enforcement

  • Food and Drug Administration

  • Georgia Bureau of Investigation

  • Illinois State Police

  • Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation

  • Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

  • Minnesota State Police

  • Naval Criminal Investigative Service

  • Nebraska State Patrol

  • New Jersey State Police

  • New York City Police Department

  • Pennsylvania State Police

  • South Carolina Law Enforcement Division

  • Texas Rangers

  • Transportation Security Administration

  • Virginia State Police

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