You know, not to sound too "big brother"ish, if our intel came strictly from our own department, I'd wonder sometimes. The reason I do pay attention is because the vast majority of our intel comes from police departments from all over the country and from other countries too. We get info from everything from ICE, CBP, and FBI down to local yokel "we caught this dude in a traffic stop what do ya know?" stuff. When you add that to the stuff anyone can find on the internet. We actually see pictures of the dude with the fake beer belly, the dude with the exotic birds taped to his legs, the drugs under the wig, etc. Go ahead, google it; no ssi here. True, our mandate doesn't involve drug runners or smugglers, but the philosophy is, if you can hide something there you can hide explosives there and no one here can say our mandate doesn't involve searching for explosives.