Support the Migration to the National Incident-Based Reporting System

Submitted by: Vehicle Crimes Committee

VCC.020.t2017

WHEREAS, currently, 33 states are certified to report data via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and 16 of these states include agencies that report all of their crime statistics through the incident-based reports; and

WHEREAS, nationwide, approximately 6,300 agencies (one-third of those that participate in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program) submit data via the NIBRS, while the rest report data in a summary format; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED that the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) supports the requirement that all U.S. states migrate to the NIBRS reporting system and calls upon the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist U.S. states with transitioning to reporting data via the NIBRS reporting system, in an expedient manner; and

FURTHER RESOLVED that the IACP encourages all nations to move to incident based reporting.