NCS-X NIBRS Transition Plan Indiana University Police Department

The National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) is an effort to expand the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) into a nationally representative system of incident-based crime statistics. BJS and the FBI are implementing NCS-X with the support of other Department of Justice agencies, including the Office for Victims of Crime. The goal of NCS-X is to enroll a sample of 400 scientifically selected law enforcement agencies to submit data to NIBRS; when these 400 new NIBRS-reporting agencies are combined with the more than 6,600 agencies that currently report to NIBRS, the nation will have a nationally representative system of incident-based crime statistics drawn from the operational data systems of local police departments. These incident-based data will draw upon the attributes and circumstances of criminal incidents and allow for more detailed and transparent descriptions of crime in communities. The current mechanism by which local law enforcement (LE) agencies report data to the FBI’s NIBRS, in general, is for local LE agencies to submit data to their state UCR reporting program, and then for the state UCR program to report those data to the FBI. While the FBI does accept NIBRS data directly from a small number of law enforcement agencies, the highly preferred route of reporting is through the state UCR program. The FY2018 solicitation furthers the goals of the NCS-X initiative by providing funding to the remaining states and local agencies in the NCS-X sample in order to assist them transition to NIBRS reporting.

Across the Indiana University system, there are seven (7) campus law enforcement agencies, a number of which run different instances (versions) of the same record management system (RMS). This project seeks to consolidate the seven campuses to operate on one version of the same RMS. The project will proceed in two stages: first, the disparate RMS instances will be synchronized such that data elements collected within each system are identical and consistent with NIBRS reporting requirements; second, the 7 versions operating across campuses will be merged into a single instance such that all 7 agencies can simultaneously submit automated NIBRS data.
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