The good SAR

An intelligence database must be mined to be useful but by whom and why, specifically? Tristram Hicks argues that the investigatory value in suspicious activity reports - all of them - is best extracted by frontline law enforcement to tackle the crime they see.

Tristram Hicks spent a decade on the UK Criminal Finance Board and in operational command of financial investigators. He now teaches and researches.

An intelligence database must be mined to be useful but by whom and why, specifically? Tristram Hicks argues that the investigatory value in suspicious activity reports - all of them - is best extracted by frontline law enforcement to tackle the crime they see.