Criminal Justice Information Services Division

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

Abbreviation

FBI

Seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

agency information

Motto

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

Agency Overview

Formed

1908

Employees

30,762 (October 31, 2006)

Annual Budget

8.7 billion USD (2006)

Legal personality

Governmental agency

Jurisdictional Structure

Federal agency
(Operations jurisdiction)

United States

Legal jurisdiction

As per operations jurisdiction.

Governing body

United States Congress

Constituting instrument

United States Code Title 28 Part II Chapter 33

General nature

Civilian agency
Federal law enforcement

Operational Structure

Headquarters

J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, D.C.

Sworn members

12,659 (October 31, 2006)

Unsworn members

18,009 (October 31, 2006)

Agency executives

Child agencies

FBI Academy
FBI Laboratory
Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)
Counterterrorism Division (CTD)

Major units

Field offices

56: List of FBI Field Offices

Notables
People	John Edgar Hoover, Director, for being the founding director William Mark Felt, former Federal Agent, for whistle blowing, Watergate scandal Joseph Leo Gormley, Forensic Scientist, for expert testimony
Programmes	FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives FBI Most Wanted Terrorists National Incident Based Reporting System Uniform Crime Reports
Significant Operation	COINTELPRO

Website

http://www.fbi.gov/

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The Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) is a division of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). A computerized criminal justice information system that is a counterpart of FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) in Washington, and is maintained by Department of Justice (DOJ) in each state. It is available to authorized local, state, and federal law enforcement and criminal justice agencies via any of the three law enforcement communication systems – National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS), a state criminal information system (name varies by state), and the International Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (INLETS). Usually CJIS offers a much wider range of information nationwide and more precise inquiry search parameters than NCIC. CJIS consists of several databases and one subsystem, and its retrieval and update capabilities are online.

[edit] Major California CJIS Databases

Stolen Vehicle System (SVS)
Automated Boat System (ABS)
Automated Property/Stolen Bicycle System (APS)
Automated Firearms System (AFS)
Wanted Persons System (WPS)
Missing/Unidentified Persons System (MUPS)
Automated Criminal Intelligence Index/Western States Information Network (WSIN)
Adult Criminal Justice Statistical System (ACJSS)

DOJ/FBI/CJIS is the largest division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is located in a half million square foot main facility on a 986 acre (4.0 km²) tract North of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Computer systems located at this site include the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), Law Enforcement Online (LEO), National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), and the Uniform Crime Reporting Program/National Incident-Based Reporting System (UCR/NIBRS). Most systems are hosted on HP Superdome computers.

The CJIS Mission: Reduce terrorist and criminal activities by maximizing the ability to provide timely and relevant criminal justice information to the FBI and to qualified law enforcement, criminal justice, civilian, academic, employment, and licensing agencies concerning individuals, stolen property, criminal organizations and activities, and other law enforcement related data.