article_snippet.sent: Roy Ramm, a former commander of specialist operations at London's Scotland Yard for 27 years, explains.
article_snippet.sent: Many of those who commit the bigger crimes or run major criminal enterprises combine high IQs with a kind of raw street intelligence.
article_snippet.sent: One of their skills is the ability to recognize a criminal opportunity when it presents it, possibly from a source of inside information.
article_snippet.sent: Inside information is one way of identifying a criminal opportunity, using people who are able to provide that crucial detail or who will participate in some small way to facilitate the crime.
article_snippet.sent: Both were made possible by inside information: it's an angle that London detectives investigating last weekend's heist will be looking at very closely.
article_snippet.sent: police enquiries will look at every aspect of how the target business operates, then try to think like criminals to identify the weaknesses in physical and operational security that the gang may have been informed about or else spotted and then exploited.
article_snippet.sent: In the police's criminal intelligence branch, the movements of known criminals will be analyzed and the networks of sources -- informers -- will be tasked to report what the movements of known criminals hear.
highlights_snippet.sent: Former police commander: Such crimes require meticulous planning and use of information by criminals .
  
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