Person and Organization

Persons and organizations are those parties that are the focus of policing activities and investigative cases. They are typically suspects, victims, witnesses, gangs, or criminal organizations, and professionals working on their behalf, such as lawyers and doctors. They do not include those parties working in a professional capacity for the law enforcement agency.

While persons and organizations are the focus of investigative cases the entire set of parties involved in investigative case management is much larger. An overview of typical parties and their representation in the system is provided below:

Parties (Examples)	Description	System
Criminals, suspects, witnesses, victims	Any individual identified as being of interest to an investigation or incident.	ICM persons
Gangs, criminal organizations, victims	A formal or informal group of individuals with a common interest, constituting the focus of a law enforcement agency.	ICM organizations
Lawyers, doctors, psychologists, surveyors	Those working on behalf of suspects, victims, witnesses.	ICM persons
Police officers, inspectors, crime scene investigators	Internal professionals working for the law enforcement agency.	Individual accounts
Employees of police organization	Members of the law enforcement agency.	Employees Note If an internal employee who already has an employee record in the system becomes relevant to a case, for example, as suspect or witness, a new business partner record, that is an ICM person, has to be created. This is due to country-specific legal regulations that stipulate that data related to investigative cases has to be deleted or expunged after a certain period of time. End of the note.
State attorneys or partner police officers	External professionals working together with the law enforcement agency.	Individual accounts
Acting police organization, partner police organization, or the state attorney’s office	Internal or external professional organizations.	Corporate accounts and organizational model for internal police organization structure. Note Relationships cannot be created to law enforcement organizational units. End of the note.

Integration

Persons and organizations in investigative case management are based on standard business partner functionality. Certain functions are therefore directly reused and others have been modified for ICM purposes.

You make the Customizing settings as follows:

For standard business partners in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management under Master Data Business Partner
For ICM persons and organizations in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management under Industry-Specific Solutions Public Sector Investigative Case Management Persons and Organizations
In the Customizing activity Exclude ICM Persons and Organizations from Account and Contact Search you exclude ICM persons and organizations from the standard search for accounts and contacts.