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 Fielded Programs:
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The projects listed under this section represent either specific technologies or services
available to the field.
- Technology Programs of the National Institute of Justice:: NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges
of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels. On this site access information
on technology research areas, laboratory enhancement programs, agency assistance, and review NIJ's
technology program publication collections.
- Expanded Online Biometrics Catalog: The Biometrics Catalog is a U.S. Government sponsored "catalog" of biometric technologies and related information. A new version of the catalog, with added features, is now available. The new version adds a keyword search option to existing portions of the catalog (commercial products, research projects, evaluations, and consultants), and adds two new areas: news articles and government documents.
ODP Emergency Responder Guidelines: The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) has prepared Emergency Responder Guidelines to help provide America's response community with a baseline understanding of the training necessary to effectively and safely respond to an act of terrorism involving the use of weapons of mass destruction. The Guidelines are only available online from the ODP web site in Adobe Acrobat format. For more information, please contact the ODP at 800-368-6498.
Testing
the Capabilities of Facial Recognition Systems: Face Recognition
Vendor Tests (FRVT) provide independent government evaluations of commercially
available and mature prototype face recognition systems. These evaluations
are designed to provide government and law enforcement agencies with information
to assist them in determining where and how facial recognition technology
can best be deployed. In addition, FRVT results help identify future research
directions for the face recognition community. The FRVT is co-sponsored
by the Department of Defense Counterdrug Technology Development Program
Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and NIJ.
Body Armor Database: NIJ's NLECTC Equipment Testing and Evaluation Program is now testing
personal body armor for both ballistic and stab resistance using the new
NIJ standards, Ballistic
Resistance of Personal Body Armorr: NIJ Standard 0101.04 , and Stab
Resistance of Personal Body Armor: NIJ Standard 0115.00.
Telemarketing
Fraud. BJA is supporting a comprehensive effort, through the National
Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to investigate, prosecute, and
thereby hopefully prevent telemarketing fraud schemes directed at senior
citizens. Telemarketing fraud has become a pervasive form of white-collar
crime in the United States and Canada, with annual losses in both countries
in the billions of dollars. In April 1997, President Clinton and Prime
Minister Chretien directed officials from both countries to prepare a report
studying ways to counter this serious problem. The report was issued in
November 1997, setting out an agreement for cross-border cooperation and
strategies. A Working Group on Cross-Border Telemarketing Fraud was established
to carry out those strategies.
The
Global Justice Information Network was formed in support of a fundamental
belief: the ability to share justice data will result in safer communities
because a crucial, driving currency -- information -- will be quickly and
accurately available to all those protecting our nation's citizens.
An Overview
of OJP Bureaus, Offices, and COPS Information Technology Initiatives
(BJA, June 2001): Describes initiatives underway at OJP and the COPS Office
to help State, local, and tribal justice systems encourage and facilitate
the design and implementation of integrated information systems. ( Text
or PDF)
Drug Court Technology:
The
DCPO-sponsored Center for Court Innovation offers a comprehensive
array of tools, information and resources on the use of technology in drug
courts. Users can also take a virtual tour of active computer applications
used in three different treatment courts.
NIJ Mapping and Analysis for
Public Safety. Promotes research, evaluation, development,
and dissemination of GIS (geographic information systems) technology and
the spatial analysis of crime.
Center
for Integrated Justice Information: The National Center for Rural
Law Enforcement will establish a technology branch at the Center for Integrated
Justice Information through a multi-phased project. These phases will include
the listing, ordering, and requisition of equipment, as well as the set-up
and configuration of the equipment.
National
Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) is an umbrella program
designed to assist States in meeting evolving Federal and State requirements
concerning criminal history and related records such as protective orders
and sexual offender registry records. The goal of the NCHIP program is
to ensure that accurate records are available for use in law enforcement,
including sex offender registry requirements, and to permit States to identify
ineligible firearm purchasers, persons ineligible to hold positions involving
children, the elderly, or the disabled, and persons subject to protective
orders or wanted, arrested, or convicted of stalking and/or domestic violence.
National
Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Implementation Program:
The objective of this program is to improve the quality of crime statistics
in the United States by implementing the National Incident-Based Reporting
System (NIBRS). This program provides funding to States (in conjunction
with units of Local government) and tribes that want to participate in
the FBI's new approach to uniform crime reporting, NIBRS.
Crime Mapping
Case Studies: Successes in the Field: NIJ Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety,
in partnership with the Police Executive Research Forum, has published
a volume of practical, real-life uses of crime mapping in law enforcement
and public safety. Papers were selected for their direct link to a successful
outcome, as well as being chosen to represent a variety of crime and disorder
problems, geographic locations, and agency size and type. You can call
the Police Executive Research Forum
at
1-888-202-4563 to order the book. The product number is #834.
Criminal Intelligence
System Training and Technical Assistance: Through this initiative,
the Institute for Intergovernmental Research
(IIR) provides technical assistance to state and local BJA grantees
on the operating policies of interjurisdictional criminal intelligence
systems, including compliance with federal regulations. IIR also delivers
onsite resolution to specific problems and coordinates specialized technical
assistance. Priority for assistance under this project is given to BJA
LLEBG grantees.
Regional
Information Sharing Systems Program: RISS is composed of six regional
centers that share intelligence and coordinate efforts against criminal
networks that operate in many locations across jurisdictional lines. Typical
targets of RISS activities are drug trafficking, violent crime and gang
activity, and organized criminal activities.The Drug
Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Internal Revenue
Service, U.S. Secret Service, U.S.
Customs Service, and Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms participate in the program.
The Strategic
Information Technology Resource Center; operated by the National
Center for Rural Law Enforcement, University of Arkansas-Little Rock
; is charged with developing a national strategic information technology
(IT) plan to provide easy, guided access to centralized and categorized
information and technical assistance related to IT planning, implementation,
and management. As part of this project, the center will compile an inventory
of IT needs; create a centralized, Internet-based resource center; and
establish a full-spectrum help desk on IT issues for state and local jurisdictions.
Center
for Civil Force Protection (CCFP): The National Institute of Justice,
through the Joint (Justice-Defense) Program Steering Group (JPSG), is providing
funding to Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to establish a Center for
Civil Force Protection. The Center will provide physical security counterterrorism
assistance to state and local law enforcement agencies, other organizations
within State and local governments and private industry.
Investigating
and Prosecuting Computer Crimes: Investigating
and Prosecuting Computer Crime and Prosecuting
Crimes Facilitated by Computers and by the Internet are sites that
explains the legal basis for prosecution and specific case studies from
the US DOJ Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property
Section.
The Justice
Technology Information Network: JUSTNET is a service of the National
Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC), which is a
program of the National Institute of Justice Office of Science and Technology.
Through NLECTC, NIJ can provide the following types of support:
- help to develop industry collaboration to address cybercrime technical and investigative issues;
- host cybercrime training sessions in conjunction with NCTP;
- provide specialized electronic crime forensic analysis for unique situations;
- coordinate computer vulnerability assessments with law enforcement agencies; and
- distribute cybercrime technology tools and information to local and state law enforcement agencies.
National
Association of Attorneys General (NAAG)
will assist state attorneys general in examining computer crimes and advanced
computer technology systems used to commit computer crimes. NAAG will undertake
a variety of activities to facilitate communication and cooperation among
the states in establishing new computer crimes units.
The
Office of Law Enforcement Standards' (OLES) mission is to apply science
and technology to the needs of the criminal justice community, including
law enforcement, corrections, forensic science, and the fire service. While
its major objective is to develop minimum performance standards, OLES also
undertakes studies leading to the publication of technical reports and
guides. OLES assists law enforcement and criminal justice agencies in acquiring,
on a cost-effective basis, the high-quality resources they need to do their
jobs. To accomplish this, OLES:
- Develops methods for testing equipment performance and examining evidentiary materials.
- Develops standards for equipment and operating procedures.
- Develops standard reference materials.
- Performs other scientific and engineering research as required.
For More Information
call OLES at 301-975-2757.
Partnerships
Against Violence Network (PAVNET) Online is
a searchable "virtual library" of information about promising programs,
funding sources, and technical information sources related to violence
prevention and youth at risk. PAVNET also offers a searchable
database of Federally-funded research on violence. PAVNET is supported
by a partnership of seven different federal agencies, including the Justice
Department.
Electronic Fraud
Assistance: The US DOJ Criminal Division has prepared sites on Cybercrime,
Internet
Fraud and Telemarketing
Fraud that provides consumer advice and links to resources for law
enforcement and citizens. The Security and
Exchange Commission has created a site for practical information for
citizens called Internet
Fraud: How to Avoid Internet Investment Scams.
National
Fraud Information Center has prepared a site to protect consumers from
Telemarketing
Fraud and Internet
Fraud.
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