National Crime Information Center

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

Abbreviation

FBI

Seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

agency information

Motto

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

Agency Overview

Formed

1908

Employees

30,762 (October 31, 2006)

Annual Budget

8.7 billion USD (2006)

Legal personality

Governmental agency

Jurisdictional Structure

Federal agency
(Operations jurisdiction)

United States

Legal jurisdiction

As per operations jurisdiction.

Governing body

United States Congress

Constituting instrument

United States Code Title 28 Part II Chapter 33

General nature

Civilian agency
Federal law enforcement

Operational Structure

Headquarters

J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, D.C.

Sworn members

12,659 (October 31, 2006)

Unsworn members

18,009 (October 31, 2006)

Agency executives

Child agencies

FBI Academy
FBI Laboratory
Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)
Counterterrorism Division (CTD)

Major units

Field offices

56: List of FBI Field Offices

Notables
People	John Edgar Hoover, Director, for being the founding director William Mark Felt, former Federal Agent, for whistle blowing, Watergate scandal Joseph Leo Gormley, Forensic Scientist, for expert testimony
Programmes	FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives FBI Most Wanted Terrorists National Incident Based Reporting System Uniform Crime Reports
Significant Operation	COINTELPRO

Website

http://www.fbi.gov/

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The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) is the United States' central database for tracking crime-related information. Since 1967, the NCIC has been maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, and is interlinked with similar systems that each state maintains. Data is received from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as tribal law enforcement agencies, railroad police, and non-law enforcement agencies, such as state and federal motor vehicle registration and licensing authorities.

1 History
2 Records
3 Validity
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading

[edit] History

The NCIC database was created in 1967 under FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The purpose of the system was to create a centralized information system to facilitate information flow between the numerous law enforcement branches. The original infrastructure cost is estimated to have been over $180 million.^[1] In the mid-1990s, the program went through an upgrade from the legacy system to the current NCIC 2000 system. A 1993 GAO estimate concluded that in addition to the costs of the upgrades, the FBI would need to spend an additional $2 billion to update its computer system to allow all users workstation access.^[2]

[edit] Records

The NCIC makes available a variety of records to be used for law enforcement and security purposes. These records are made up of a variety of forms of personal and property records.

Personal records:

Persons with active arrest warrants
Missing persons
Persons with active protection orders
Violent gang organizations and membership
Terrorist organizations and membership
Secret Service protective alerts
Unidentified human remains information
Convicted sex offenders
Foreign fugitives
Immigration violators
Parolees or people on supervised release
Criminal conviction records

Property records:

Firearms records, including lost or missing firearms
Stolen vehicles and boats
Stolen vehicle and boat parts
Stolen property
Stolen, embezzled or counterfeit securities

[edit] Validity

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has raised concerns over the validity of information in the NCIC database.^[3] The FBI had the administrative authority to ensure the accuracy of the information provided in the database, but was discharged from this role by the Department of Justice in 2003.