Policy Text
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Prepa red by: Ofc Jeff Kuhlmann Chief of Police Kath erine Leste r
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NIBRS Implementation
10-27-2022
Effective November 1 at 0700 hrs, the department will transition to reporting crime statistics to the California
Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation using the National Incident Based Reporting
System (NIBRS) format. In addition to the NIBRS requirements, Califor nia has its own California Incident
Based Reporting System (CIBRS) requirements, reflected in the table updates within Versaterm MRE/ RMS.
WHY IS THIS CHANGING?
The federal mandate will a llow us to:
• Capture all offenses that occur during an incident.
• Report data such as Victim -Offender relationship and other demographics/details.
• Provide a more precise snapshot of crime in California and the U.S.
• Continue to receive critical Feder al fundi ng.
WHAT IS CHANGING?
• For NIBRS, the National Incident Based Reporting Program defines an incident as one or
more offenses committed by the same offender or group of offenders acting in concert at the same time
and place.
• For inci dents that d o not me et this definition, m ore than one report may be required.
TRAINING HAS BEEN COMPLETE D AND AVAILABLE TO REVIEW
Resource material can be located on the X drive in the NIBRS Training folder as well as on the Application
Launcher under N IBRS Trainin g.
IMPO RTANT REMINDERS
• When adding Offenses to a GO ALWAYS use th e F2 button to bring up the search box.
• Verify and select Offense codes not NIBRS def initions .
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• Validate all reports and correct all errors prior to s ubmitting for review .
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ADDING NOTES W HEN SUBMITTING REPORTS
• When submitting reports for approval please add “Ready for Review”.
• If there a re multiple reports for an incident, please list all the report numbers so the supervisor can review
all of them.
• Advise if ther e is a property e rror on the report due to evidence needing to be booked .
REQUESTING CSI
• If multiple re ports are taken and CSI is requested, make sure to advise CSI of the correlating report
numbers for them to write their supplement s.