Overview of Current Criminal

Justice Information
Systems

PRESENTED BY:
Surbhi Kumar(09609053)
Roopal Vegad(6503862)
Anshika Singh(09609052)
Criminal justice information systems can be divided roughly
into two categories:

 “Public record” information

(e.g., stolen property reports, arrest warrants, criminal history
records, sex offender lists)
 Investigative systems
(non-public information on cases under investigation,
including names of suspects, informants, victims and
witnesses)

Some systems operate on a name search (augmented by date of

birth, race and other non-unique identifiers), while in others
(in particular, criminal history records) identification is
supported by fingerprints.

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SOME FACTS:
 The states and the Federal government also maintain separate
DNA identification databases.

 There are databases of non-personally identifiable

information, such as stolen property or ballistics data.

 In the US, there are nearly 19,000 state and local police
agencies, approximately 200 federal police agencies each with
one or more internal systems as well as links to national
systems.

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OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to give an overview of the major
criminal justice information systems, as background to a
discussion of issues of access, linkage and control:

1.The National Law Enforcement Telecommunications Systems

(NLETS)

2.The FBI’s National Crime Information Centre(NCIC) Network

3.The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Wide Area

Network (CJIS WAN)

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4.Other Systems and Telecommunications Networks

A. National – systems that support local, state, tribal and

federal agencies.
B. Federal - systems that support the justice activities of
one or more federal agency at the federal level only.
C. State - systems at the state, regional, and/or local
level.
D. Multi-State

5. FBI Information Systems

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NLETS
 Nationwide network that links all states and many federal
agencies together.

 In each state, an interface agency is responsible for

maintaining an in-state law enforcement telecommunication
systems.

 Through these connections, any criminal justice agency on a

state law enforcement 102 telecommunications systems in one
state can communicate with any criminal justice agency.

 Law enforcement and criminal justice agencies use NLETS

more than 1,000,000 times everyday via nearly 327,000
terminals.

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INFORMATION AVAILABLE
FROM OTHER STATES VIA NLETS
 Vehicle Registration Information
 Drivers License Information
 Criminal History Records
 Boat and Snowmobile Registration
 Parole and Probation Information
 Corrections Information

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The FBI’’s National Crime Information
Center (NCIC) Network
What is the NCIC?

• Is a computerized database of documented criminal justice

information
• Is available to virtually every law enforcement agency
nationwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Real Time information (12 second response)
• Became operational on January 27, 1967, with the goal of
assisting law enforcement in apprehending fugitives and
locating stolen property.

 This goal has since expanded to include locating missing persons and
further protecting law enforcement personnel and the public.
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Types of Information Provided by
NCIC
 Information regarding
◦ Stolen property & recovered ammunition
◦ Persons (wanted, fugitive, missing, protected etc)

 Inquiry access to the FBI’s Interstate Identification Index (III)

◦ III provides criminal history record to NCIC
◦ Connects NCIC to NLETS

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FBI’s Criminal Justice Information
Services Wide Area Network (CJIS
WAN)
 Connects the states to the FBI’s Integrated Automated
Fingerprint Identification Systems(IAFIS)

 Enables electronic submission of arrest fingerprints to the FBI

◦ This allows for automatically creates a criminal history record in III

 States having AFIS systems are capable of

1. accepting electronic submission of fingerprints from local arresting
agencies
2. forward those electronic fingerprints to FBI
3. receive a response as to that person’s national identification and
criminal history within two (2) hours
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Other Systems and
Telecommunications Networks
A.) National – systems that support local, state,
tribal and federal agencies:
a. CODIS-Combined DNA Index System
b. NIBIN-National Integrated Ballistics Information
Network
c. NDPIX-National Drug Pointer Index
d. UCR/NIBRS-National Uniform Crime Reporting
System
e. NICS-National Instant Criminal Background
Check System
f. LEO-Law Enforcement On-Line
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Other Systems and Telecommunications
Networks(Contd.)
B.) Federal - systems that support the justice
activities of one or more federal agency at the
federal level only:
a. TECS-Treasury Enforcement Communications System
b. DRUGX-a common FBI/DEA drug intelligence database
c. JABS-Joint Automated Booking System
d. NIPC’s-National Infrastructure Protection Center data
e. IDENT-INS’s two print AFIS capability for searching
aliens entering the country
f. FinCEN – Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

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Other Systems and
Telecommunications Networks(Contd.)
C.) State - systems at the state, regional, and/or local
level:
a. Criminal History Records Systems
b. State and Local Stolen Property and Wanted Person
Systems
c. State and Local Court Systems
d. Driver and Vehicle Registration Systems
e. Jail Management Systems

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Other Systems and
Telecommunications Networks(Contd.)
D.) Multi-State Systems:

a. RISS-Regional Information Sharing Systems

b. WIN-Western Identification Network.
c. SWBS ADIS-Southwest Border States Anti-Drug
Information System.
d. GREAT – Gang Reporting, Evaluation and Tracking system.

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FBI Information Systems
 The FBI helps in administering several of the major
nationwide criminal justice databases, including NCIC and the
Interstate Identification Index/National Fingerprint File
(III/NFF), while at the same time maintaining large in-house
databases of investigative information.

 The analytic tools being developed by the FBI are:

 1) link analysis – the identification of relationships across
organizations, people, places, and events etc.;
 2) telephone toll analysis – the analysis of information
collected through pen registers;

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FBI Information Systems(Contd.)
 3) visual investigative analysis – a graphical representation of
data analysis;
 4) geographic analysis – a mapping of subjects activities
movements;
 5) enterprise access to Multi-Domain Expert Systems;
 6) analysis of large volumes of data related to a single case at
a single location.

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THANK YOU

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