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San Joaquin NIBRS Transition

Award Information

Awardee
SAN JOAQUIN, COUNTY OF
Award #
2018-FU-CX-K044
Funding Category
Competitive Discretionary
Location

FRENCH CAMP, CA

Congressional District
9
Status
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2018
Total funding (to date)
$118,825
Original Solicitation
FY 2018 NCS-X Implementation Assistance Program: Support for Local Law Enforcement Agencies, Part 2

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2018, $118,825)

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 in their transition to NIBRS reporting.

San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office (SJCSO) serves a population of 177,000 with a force of 310 sworn officers. In a typical year, SJCSO receives 140,000 calls for service resulting in 21,200 reports. SJCSO uses a commercial RMS which is not currently configured to report IBR data. Funds from this award will be used to update the RMS to allow it to collect data to the federal NIBRS standard, as well as modifying it to allow for the CA-specific elements.

CA/NCF

Date Created: September 20, 2018