Geographic Profiling Analysis (GPA)] Training
Geographic profiling is a sub-type of offender or criminal profiling (the inference of offender characteristics from offence characteristics). It is therefore related to psychological or behavioral profiling. If psychological profiling is the "who," geographic profiling is the "where." All certified geographic profilers are members of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF), a professional profiling organization first begun by investigators trained by the FBI in the mid-1980s.
Furthermore, the Geographic Profiling Analysis (GPA) training programme ensures that geographic profiling analysis remains a recognized law enforcement tool; a meaningful certification for crime analysts and detectives; maintain a standard of quality through adequate qualifications in law enforcements; and finally to establish an ethical code of conduct.
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