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The International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF) operates as the training and certification body for police profilers. The ICIAF also establishes standards for conducting assessments and providing expert testimony. The mission of the ICIAF is to provide quality criminal investigative analysis services to law enforcement agencies internationally.
The ICIAF is comprised of two divisions, the criminal profiling and geographic profiling divisions, and is governed by one Executive Board. Membership consists of 112 members from 14 states, the FBI, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Netherlands. The ICIAF has 69 certified police profilers and FBI agents from the NCAVC, and 7 criminal profiling understudies. There are 8 certified geographic profilers and 4 geographic profiling understudies. The ICIAF has 23 Affiliate members from the forensic psychiatric, forensic psychology and forensic pathology communities. The affiliate members provide their services, free of charge, to include case consultations and research relating to this field.