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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Cmdr. Michael Doerzaph, Commander Support Services
Jeff Anderson, Deputy Chief Information Officer
Shanita Thompson, Director IT Operations
DATE: December 14, 2020
SUBJECT:
A resolution amending the maintenance agreement with Intergraph (Hexagon) Corporation of Huntsville, Alabama for compliance with mandatory state police NIBRS reporting requirement for an amount of $7,995.45.
PURPOSE:
The Aurora Police Department and all Illinois law enforcement agencies are required to report their crime statistics to the State of Illinois as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigations, under Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management. As of January 1st, 2021 (state was behind getting the repository set up and understands agencies will not meet this deadline; they have been informed we will not meet the deadline), the State of Illinois will require ALL Illinois law enforcement agencies to begin reporting NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System), in addition to UCR. Implemented to improve the overall quality of crime data collected by law enforcement, NIBRS captures details on each single crime incident-as well as on separate offenses within the same incident-including information on victims, known offenders, relationships between victims and offenders, arrestees, and property involved in crimes. Unlike data reported through the UCR Program's traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS)-an aggregate monthly tally of crimes-NIBRS goes much deeper because of its ability to provide circumstances and context for crimes like location, time of day, and whether the incident was cleared.
BACKGROUND:
In addition to data collected for NIBRS reporting to the FBI, the State of Illinois has mandated separate NIBRS collection and reporting requirements for Illinois law enforcement agencies. The City's Hexagon WebRMS system supports Federal NIBRS requirements but needs modificati...
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