Market disruption: Gathering intelligence and mapping supply

It is essential for partners to create as complete a map as possible about local supply before designing suitable interventions.

Knowing your market

Assembling data and matching with intelligence

The aim: A map of the local market, detailing what’s being sold, where and how

How produced?  Through gathering data from police and other sources

Mapping the local market is crucial to developing effective disruption, making it harder for drugs to be sold. Only by knowing how the market works can the market be tackled. By assembling the greatest range of data additional names can be added from different sources.

What data?

The core is police data, but relying on this is not enough. It should be added to with additional information from the general public and from professionals.

The data should cover all of the aspects of the market referred to above: information on

• Users

• Buyers

• Sellers

• Situation

• Location

• Commodity

• Price

• Quality

• Harm and impact

Police Data

Gathering information from the public

Professional and user information

Who should gather this information?

In what form should it be displayed?

Who can look at the information held?

A note about NIM

Mapping