S'R'F'E'R'S' State, Regional,

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S.R.F.E.R.S.State, Regional, Federal
Enterprise Retrieval SystemBJA Regional
Information Sharing Conference
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SRFERS Background

• ARJIS awarded a grant from NIJ
• ARJIS is a JPA formed to share law enforcement
  info in the San Diego Region among 11,000 users
  and 71 local, state, and federal agencies
• Goal of the SRFERS grant to implement
  recommendations from the National Criminal
  Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP)
• NCISP endorsed by DOD and DOJ

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Grant Objective

• Develop an interstate info sharing application
  featuring 3 data sources
• Inter-State Booking Photos Data
• License Plate Reader data (LPR)
• NLETS Message Archive (RAND)
• Develop a Toolkit for information sharing of
  data and functionality not previously available
  across state lines

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Business Case

• Established need for interstate info sharing
• Practitioner interviews and surveys
• Analytical studies conducted
• Comparison of other info sharing initiatives
• Results indicated that SRFERS would
• Save time and resources
• Improve quality of service
• Enhance public and officer safety

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Partnership

• Phase I participants included
• Nlets
• ARJIS
• California Department of Justice
• Maricopa County ICJIS
• Arizona Department of Public Safety

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Data SourceInterstate Booking Photos

• No automated system for interstate Sharing of
  booking photos
• User survey and interviews
• How do you go about gettingthese photos today?
• How useful would it be to youto be able to
  receive photosfrom other states?

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How do you go about getting out-of-state photos
today?

• It is a slow and laborious process that takes
  days.
• By calling the agency in order to request one.
  This is very time consuming and not at all
  practical in the field.
• I work at night and agencies handle photo
  requests during the day.

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How useful would this be?

• Would greatly improve our efficiency. I am
  currently attempting to locate an AZ fugitive of
  which I have not been able to obtain a photo.
• It can include or exclude a person as a suspect
  early in an investigation.
• Immediate access to these photos would enable us
  to make positive identification of suspects.
• This would help close cases much more quickly.

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Interstate activity studies

• ARJIS conducted a study of 137 suspects in Tucson
  and Phoenix involved in
• Aggravated Assault
• Burglary
• Criminal Homicide
• When the suspects were run through ARJIS 190
  related incident reports were found that matched
  those names
• Nlets averages over a million interstate
  transactions per month

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Data SourceLicense Plate Reader Data

• Nlets has access to National Insurance Crime
  Bureaus License Plate Reader (LPR) data
• Users surveyed and interviewed
• Would you want to know if a vehicle of interest
  has crossed the border?
• How would LPR be useful to your job?

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LPR User Feedback

• Many of our murder suspects flee to Mexico.
  Anything that would help track wanted suspects
  would be great.
• Multiple crossings within a short period of time
  should raise the concern level of our officers
  and enhance our safety.
• It would save us time
• and resources, which
• equals money.

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Vehicle Border Crossing Study

• 5 Day Test conducted
• 780,000 plates crossed the border
• More than 1300 involved in

• 4 Murders
• 14 Rapes
• 24 Robberies
• 273 Assaults
• 128 Burglaries
• 345 Vehicle Theft
• 361 Weapons
• 241 Narcotics

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Data SourceRAND

• Nlets logs over 80 million transactions a month
• Provides users with ability to see who else has
  queried the same people and plates
• It makes the process more effective and
  efficient when officers and prosecutors have a
  complete picture of the criminals actions.
• As it stands there is little or no communication
  with agencies from another state."

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Phase 1 RAND
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S.R.F.E.R.S. Toolkit

S.R.F.E.R.S. Toolkit
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Toolkit Successful Demo of NCISP

• Utilize existing multi-jurisdictional
  info-sharing systems
• Focus on using existing public safety networks as
  the conduit for deploying a nationwide system
• Operational requirements, technical
  specifications, standard interfaces, model MOUs,
  Security Protocols, and other required governing
  documents
• Addresses legal and policy limitations and
  restrictions on implementing information sharing
  systems
• Overcome political and technical barriers

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User Feedback - Photos

• Had missing person report with a guy that was
  supposed to be going to Arizona. I checked him in
  SRFERS and found out he had been recently
  arrested in Arizona. So one missing person report
  closed, case solved.
• I received the information I needed within
  seconds. This is a dramatic improvement over the
  old system.

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User Feedback - LPR

• Feedback indicates that LPR has assisted
• Jail Escape Case, Murder Case, Locating stolen
  vehicles
• The fact that the average street cop and
  investigator has access to this is huge.

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Governance Communication

• Led by multi-disciplinary team
• Bi-weekly conference calls
• Quarterly meetings
• On-line forum keep the team informed

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Policy Advisory Committee (PAC)

• Review validate deliverables
• Provide policy guidance
• Each member will be
• Knowledgeable about national info sharing and
  intelligence issues, initiatives and projects
• Actively involved in and able to represent one
  national organization and one state level
  organization

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PAC Representation

• FBI/CJIS (1 representative)
• DOJ/CIO (1 representative)
• DHS/IAIP/HSIN (1 representative)
• NIJ (1 representative)
• Global (1 representative)
• Federal Law Enforcement (1 representative)
• State representation (2 representatives)
• Local/tribal representation (2 representatives)

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Phase II NIJ Funds

• Research and develop
• New data sources (i.e. Drivers License Photos)
• Alert notification system
• Centralized metrics collection and reporting
  system

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Phase II DHS Funds

• Goal Operational Roll out of tool kit to Tool
  kit roll out to other Western regions/states

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Phase II Accomplishments to Date

• Funding established
• Project Team established
• Technical kickoff meeting held
• Partnerships formed with locals/states and other
  info sharing projects (i.e. NISP)
• Bi-Weekly Technical Calls
• CAL-DOJ Gap Analysis of current image exchange
  data sets
• CAL-DOJ review of image encoding options
• Draft recommended PAC members established

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Next Steps

• Hire a full time Technical Manager
• Hold First PAC meeting
• Continue Roll out application to ARJIS users
• Develop Phase II functional requirements
• Establish a detailed Project Plan
• New regions/states participation readiness
  assessment

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Questions??

• Pamela Scanlon
• ARJIS Executive Director
• [phone]
• pscanlon_at_arjis.org