The New York City Police Department Intelligence Bureau is a division of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) which claims responsibility for the detection and disruption of criminal and terrorist activity through the use of intelligence-led policing. There is limited oversight over the Intelligence Bureau, and it conducts work in secrecy without the city council being informed of operations. The intelligence and counterterrorism bureaus fall under the domain of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, which is commanded by Deputy Commissioner John Miller. Current subdivisions Intelligence Operations and Analysis Section (IOAS) The IOAS is responsible for both collecting and analyzing data for counter-terrorism purposes. Criminal Intelligence Section (CIS) Similar to the IOAS, the CIS collects and analyzes data for counter-crime purposes. They also conduct the Field Intelligence Officer (FIO) program, where officers conduct intelligence work with narcotics, firearms, and other criminal investigations. International Liaison Program (ILP) The International Liaison Program places NYPD intelligence officers in existing law enforcement agencies around the globe. It was created in 2003 with the intention of counter-terrorism operations and has since found utility in investigating criminal cases that have international elements. The program is externally funded by the New York City Police Foundation. ILP has received criticism for its lack of government oversight, justification, and proper handling of intelligence. Currently, it has officers in 16 cities outside of New York. Former subdivisions Demographics / Zone Assessment Unit The Demographics Unit (later known as the Zone Assessment Unit) was a secret police intelligence division formed after the September 11 attacks to surveil Muslim-Americans. Police Spokespersons did not publicly acknowledge the unit until after the Associated Press revealed the organization through a Pulitzer Prize award-winning series of articles. The unit's techniques included eavesdropping on conversations held in public locations, gaining access to internet usage by Muslim groups on college campuses by claiming to be investigating narcotics or gang activity, and labeling entire mosques as terror groups in order to record sermons and spy on religious officials without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Twenty-eight "ancestries of interest were monitored by the unit, ranging from Arab ethnicities like Palestinian and Syrian to heavily Muslim populations from former Soviet states such as Chechnya and Uzbekistan to Black American Muslims". It was noted by the ACLU that the NYPD "expressly excluded from its surveillance and mapping activities non-Muslims such as Coptic Christian Egyptians or Iranian Jews". In 2013, the Muslim American Civil