FY19 NCS-X Implementation Assistance Program: Support for Local Law Enforcement Agencies

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 7,000 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 FY2019 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.

The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) is a full service police department whose jurisdiction serves 1.92 million residents across the state’s 77,358 square miles, employing 437 sworn personnel and 250 civilian personnel. In order to become NIBRS compliant, NSP needs to upgrade its current RMS to collect the required NIBRS data elements. Under this award, NSP will acquire business analyst services, software applications development tasks, and additional data storage and server capacity. When complete, NSP will become certified to report NIBRS/IBR data.

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