NCJ Number
219563
Journal
THE POLICE CHIEF Volume: 74 Issue: 4 Dated: April 2007 Pages: 26,28,30,31
Date Published
April 2007
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This article provides an overview of current U.S. Department of Justice initiatives in the area of law enforcement information-sharing and the potential benefits to State, local, and tribal law enforcement.
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking the leading role in facilitating the sharing of law enforcement information. As part of the OneDOJ approach, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the U.S. Marshals Service; and the Bureau of Prisons have been working to pull unclassified case information from their individual systems and place these data into the Regional Data Exchange (R-DEx) system for sharing with their partners at the local level. The first pilot of the OneDOJ information sharing approach began in 2005. DOJ’s approach allows different technology solutions in different regions to use a standard interface and agreed-upon policies to enable trusted and secure sharing among partners. DOJ is also working on the construction of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx), an information sharing system that will collect and correlate criminal incident reports from Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies across the United States. N-DEX complements the R-DEx system. DOJ will soon roll out OneDOJ/R-DEx, but there are things that can done now, such as ensuring that local and regional information sharing efforts have strong governance, working with grant managers to ensure that law enforcement and homeland security are coordinated and can obtain the funding to upgrade systems; and complying with the DOJ technical standards.