SEARCH Winter Membership Group Meeting

January 2006

Assistant Director, CJISThomas E. Bush, III

Overview

Intro/Background/Vision CJIS Services 2005 New Initiatives

NGI Interoperability Efforts – DHS/DOS/DOD

N-DEx

CJIS Services

IAFIS

IAFIS received 20.7 million ten-print fingerprint submissions in FY05 Up from 18.7 million ten-print fingerprint submissions received in FY04

Criminal 83.9% submitted electronically - 96.7% completed within two

hours; 69.4% completed within 15 minutes The rate completed within 2 hours increased 2.3% over FY04

(FY04 was 94.5%) Civil

82.8% submitted electronically – 99.1% completed within 24 hours

The rate completed within 24 hours increased .1% over FY04 (FY04 was 99.0%)

IAFIS one day record September 7, 2005 – 95,989 submissions

IAFIS

IAFIS System Performance November 2005

99.1% of the Electronic Criminal Answer Required submissions were processed within 2 hours with an adjusted average response time of 13 minutes.

99.8% of the Electronic Civil submissions were processed within 24 hours with an adjusted average response time of 2 hours and 26 minutes

NCIC

Statistics Total transactions and percent change

October 2005 - 135,609,825 October 2004 – 125,261,590

Increase – 10,348,235 % Increase - 8.26%

Average number per day October 2005 - 4,374,510 October 2004 - 4,040,696

Increase - 333,814 NCIC Peak Daily Record - July 29, 2005 - 5,546,849

NCIC

License Plate Reader (LPR) Project Currently 11 states and Washington, DC have signed

agreements October 18-20, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police

Department hosted a demo deploying LPRs in 5 vehicles. The following results were obtained:

38 stolen vehicles recovered 1 stolen tractor trailer 14 stolen tags 18 arrests 2 Bench Warrant Alarms 5 vehicles involved in car jackings 3 guns recovered 100 + grams of crack cocaine 1 lb of marijuana 1 stolen cab evaded capture on the capital grounds and was

recaptured in 10 minutes

NCIC

NCIC Projections from NCIC Vehicle and Wanted Person Benefits Survey

Based on the results from the survey month, the following benefits were projected for NCIC during 2004:

Apprehended 315,963 Missing Found 49,984 Wanted Found 316,566 Vehicles Found 260,760 Value of Recovered Contraband $ 20,593,627 Value of Recovered Property $ 18,235,460 Value of Recovered Vehicles $ 1,290,103,218 Number of Additional Charges 212,583

NICS

Immediate Determination Rate 2005 91.64 percent (.17 % decrease

compared to calendar year 2004) 2004 91.47 percent

Call Center, FBI and E-Check Totals 2005 4,952,639 transactions (5.71% increase

compared to calendar year 2004) 2004 4,685,018 transactions

NICS

Single Day Records - Calls NICS Section and Contracted Call Center

12/17/2005 36,276 calls received (15% increase over same day in 2004)

12/18/2005 15,008 calls received (32% increase over same day in 2004)

12/23/2005 Single day record 43,275 calls received (30% increase over same day

in 2004

NICS

Single Day Records - Transactions NICS Section and Point-of Contact (POC) States

12/17/2005 57,127 POC and non-POC checks, marking the seventh largest volume day program- to-date.

12/23/2005 1,306 firearm transactions via NICS E-Check, marking the largest volume day program-to-date.

12/23/2005 48,684 non-POC state transactions, marking the highest transaction volume program-to-date.

70,581 transactions (includes non-POC, POC, explosives, NICS E-Check, and permit transactions. 30 % increase for the same day in 2004)

Relocation & Re-engineering

Relocation (Scheduled date 9/1/2006)

Moves LEO Processing to Clarksburg

Upgrades Functionality

Capacity

100,000 User Capacity

Security

Adds PKI Soft and Hard Tokens

Disaster Recovery

Adds full recovery site in McLean, Virginia

LEO

UCR

Crime in the United States was released on 10/17/2005

Hate Crime Statistics was released on 11/14/2005

Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted was released on 11/21/2005

New Initiatives

NGI – Six initiatives

Advanced Fingerprint Identification Technology (AFIT)

Quality Check Automation

National Palm Print System

Disposition Reporting Improvements

Enhanced IAFIS Repository

Interstate Photo System

NGI Current Challenges and BenefitsAdvanced Fingerprint Identification Technology (AFIT)

Current Challenges with IAFIS • Possible increase in the volume of processing due to current and

pending Congressional legislation; this may drastically affect processing requirements.

• System errors• Response times• Missed candidates• Need more robust latent processing services

Benefits with incorporation of planned enhancements• Faster, more accurate responses• Capability to process an increase in daily submissions• Compliance with Congressional mandates i.e IDENT-IAFIS

Interoperability, mandated background checks such as HAZMAT• Improve IAFIS ability to support National Security Objectives• Improve ten-print and latent process capabilities

NGI Current Challenges and BenefitsQuality Check (QC) Automation Initiative

Current Challenges• Although the process is partially automated, existing manual reviews impact

the ability to provide timely and accurate information, consistency of actions, and response times.

• Utilization of personnel and financial resources could be improved through a more fully automated process.

• Federal and State statutes are not available in automated form, which requires time-consuming manual look-up, as evidenced in personnel utilization and other limitations noted above.

Benefits• Significant reduction in processing IAFIS criminal and civil ten-print

submissions by eliminating the queuing of many of these submissions.• Automation will enable FBI CJIS to meet increasing demands for fingerprint

identification services with current or reduced staffing levels.• Automatic verification of required fields for specific transactions through a

rule-based process, and automatic population of certain fields.• Better utilization of existing resources: technical, personnel, and financial.

NGI Current Challenges and BenefitsInterstate Photo System (IPS) Enhancements Initiative

Current Challenges• IAFIS requires submission of photos to be with ten-print criminal

fingerprint submissions. Photos cannot be added later nor can they be submitted with non-criminal ten-print fingerprint submissions

• IAFIS limits the current number of photo sets per subject to a maximum of ten.

• Many states have collected an extensive photo database including mug shots and scars, marks and tattoo (SMT) images, there is no procedure for bulk loading the images to IAFIS.

• There is no method for searching and retrieving a national database of SMT photos based on SMT characteristics.

• There is no method of retrieving photos from IAFIS through NCIC.

Benefits• Provide law enforcement agents with better access to a more

complete database of photos for identifying missing persons, wanted persons, criminals, and visual inspections of suspects in custody.

• Will help the U.S. law enforcement community solve more crimes and better protect citizens against criminal and terrorist activity.

NGI Current Challenges and BenefitsDisposition Reporting Improvements (DRI) Initiative

Current Challenges• The FBI has no legal authority to make States share their criminal history

information, and most State repositories do not have control over State court clerks (often elected county officials).

System improvement depends on cooperation and goodwill at many levels.Criminal history records will be more accurate and up-to-date with improvedmethods of disposition reporting.

Benefits• More effective identification of felons and others prohibited from firearm

purchases• Check backgrounds of persons responsible for child, elder and disabled care• Identify individuals who have a history of domestic violence or stalking• Informed decisions relating to pretrial release and detention of offenders,

prosecutions of career criminals and appropriate correctional confinement• Background checks to protect public safety and national security

NGI Current Challenges and BenefitsEnhanced IAFIS Repository Initiative

Current Challenges• Content and format of criminal and civil repositories differ; it is difficult

to transfer records between them.• Civil repository submissions are stored chronologically; multiple

submissions for an individual result in multiple unlinked datasets.• The civil repository is difficult to search due to structural difficulties;

Attempts at applying for employment under a second identity sometimes go undetected.

• No cross-reference between civil and criminal repositoriesBenefits• Consolidate multiple individual submissions for an individual into a

single dataset• Interoperability between civil and criminal repositories• Will extend search, storage, file maintenance, and response

generation to the civil repository• Civil repository will be searched when criminal data is submitted on an

individual who has no criminal history. Civil data found in the repository will be consolidated with the newly submitted criminal data.

• Rap Back, new civil repository service

Interoperability DHS/DOS

Interoperability between DHS’s IDENT system and FBI’s IAFIS Formed Integrated Project Team in May 2005

Established Guiding Principles Developed business requirements and concept of operations--October 2005 Analyzing technical alternatives--December 2005

Shared Services Shared Data Single Service

Performing cost benefit analysis –January 2006 Developing interim solution—Available in 2006

Reciprocal exchange of information Wants and Warrants from FBI Recidivists with Alerts from DHS and Visa Critical Refusals from DOS

On 11/17-18/2005, DHS, DOS, and FBI participated in an off-site to discuss and resolve key issues regarding interoperability

N-DEx

Executive Review Reorganization

Enlisted contractor support for IV&V (Independent Verification and Validation)

Committed to increased and consistent communication with key stakeholders, notably DOJ, FBI CIOs, APB, IACP, MCC, NSA, MCSA)

N-DEx

Funding Received reprogrammed FY 2005 funding

N-DEx established as DOJ LEISP Justice Information Sharing Technology budget line in FYs 2006 and 2007

FY 2008 spend plans are being developed with DOJ and FBI CIOs coordination

N-DEx

Procurement Strategy Performance Based Acquisition Strategy

Acquisition Solutions Incorporated (ASI) will assist in oversight of the new Acquisition Strategy

Project on schedule