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NCIC PURPOSE: The purpose for
maintaining the NCIC system is to provide a computerized database for
ready access by a criminal justice agency making an inquiry and for
prompt disclosure of information in the system from other criminal
justice agencies about crimes and criminals. This information assists
authorized agencies in criminal justice and related law enforcement
objectives, such as apprehending fugitives, locating missing persons,
locating and returning stolen property, as well as in the protection of
the law enforcement officers encountering the individuals described in
the system. It is available to
Federal, state, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice
agencies and is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
ACCESS CONSTRAINTS: All records in NCIC are protected from
unauthorized access through appropriate administrative, physical, and
technical safeguards. These safeguards include restricting access to
those with a need to know to perform their official duties, and using
locks, alarm devices, passwords, and/or encrypting data communications.
USE CONSTRAINTS: Users of the NCIC system will be restricted to
only those privileges necessary to perform an authorized task(s).
AGENCY PROGRAM: The FBI is authorized to acquire, collect,
classify and preserve identification, criminal identification, crime,
and other records and to exchange such information with authorized
entities.
SOURCES OF DATA: Data contained in NCIC is provided by the FBI,
federal, state, local and foreign criminal justice agencies, and
authorized courts.
The most recent iteration of NCIC became operational on July 11, 1999 at
the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg,
West Virginia. A recent hardware upgrade to the NCIC system is
responsible for this significant improvement in performance.
(Source:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm )
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