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Creating Group Profiles for an Investigation

A group record provides profile information on international and domestic organizations. Groups can be associated with incidents, cases, events, references, and advisories.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Investigative Cases.

To create a group record

1. Navigate to the Groups screen.
2. In the Groups list, add a record.
3. In the new record, complete the fields.

   The following table describes some of the fields.

   Field	Comments
   Name	The name or alias of the group.
   Status	The group status is Active or Inactive.
   Parent Group	The name of the parent group if applicable. The parent group record must already exist.
   Associated Groups	The names of other groups affiliated with the group being created.
   Threat	The type of threat, for example, Armed Robbery, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Cybercrime, Kidnapping, Murder, Nuclear Weapons, or Other.
   Membership	The estimated number of members in the group.
   Leader	The leader of the group. You can select the leader from the list of suspects previously associated with the group.
   Description	Text field for entry of other information about the group.
   Team	Primary member of the investigative team. Defaults to the user ID of the individual creating the group record. Other team members can be added, but only one member can be designated as the primary.