Congratulations you've been just designated the police departments new Criminal Gang Squad Commander, with this promotion to Lieutenant comes the responsibility of establishing a Task Force and addressing the influx of what is believed to be an undercurrent of MS-13 gang activity.

Following is an excerpt from: FBI MS-13 Threat AssessmentLinks to an external site.

MS-13 members engage in a wide range of criminal activity,MS-13 is expanding its membership at a "moderate" rate

You have information/intelligence gapson what manner of MS-13 activity exists in your community. Ensuring you protect civil rights and conduct lawful investigative/intelligence activity how will you address these gaps and manage the information/analytical functions necessary to safeguard your community from this emerging threat?

Part 1) It's all aboutRaw Information, where are you going to look to collect this information?

Part 2) It's also about theCommunity, how are you going to have your personnel engage and interact with the community to develop information/intelligence to address the gaps on what manner of MS-13 gang members/criminal activity is in the community?

Part 3) Don't forgetCollaborationwith other law enforcement agencies, immigration, corrections etc., discuss how you plan to do this?

Part 4) How will you safeguardCivil Rights?

Part 5) Parts 1-4 involve managing a variety of analytical functions and requirements, how are you going to bring them all together to develop an operational response to this emerging criminal issue of MS-13?