DHS encompasses nine operational law enforcement agencies with nearly 80,000 law enforcement officers and agents across the country.

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Your records clerks have the knowledge and training to clean the reports up, but they don’t know what happened.  Sometimes they can guess, but inevitably they’re going to have to connect with Patrol.  So your agency plays “ring around the report” sending incidents back and forth between records and patrol, until they finally get the NIBRS reporting entered correctly (at least until they get the error report back from the state…).

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”It helped us get NIBRS compliant. We love the hilighted required fields, and how easy it is to complete and search reports.

”We have enjoyed EFORCE because it is easy to use. We continue to be impressed with the support at EFORCE. They are always prompt, and even know my voice when I call!

Like you, we were tired of struggling with NIBRS.  We’re confident that the program was created with the best of intentions, and it’s done real good for American Law Enforcement, but there’s a reason why EVERYONE struggles with it.

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Although this policy establishes requirements for the use of BWCs, not all DHS law enforcement officers will immediately be issued cameras. Some DHS agencies and offices already have deployed BWCs to its officers and agents; others will begin to employ cameras as funding becomes available. DHS is working to secure the resources required to ensure full implementation of the new policy. Once DHS officers and agents receive BWCs, they will be subject to their Agency’s or Office’s policy.

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WASHINGTON – As required by President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety, today Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced the first Department-wide policy on Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) for its law enforcement officers and agents. The Department’s plan will include a phased implementation of BWCs while working with Congress to secure the necessary funding to equip agents nationwide with BWCs.

Within 180 days, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies and offices will draft and issue, or update, their own individual BWC policies that meet or exceed the requirements set forth in the Department-wide policy.

So, we drew on our frustrations and designed an RMS that balances the desire for statistical information with the purpose of Law Enforcement; preventing and solving crime!  Police Departments and Sheriff’s Offices have become buried in book keeping and “it only takes a second to record xyz info.”  That “only takes a second” adds up fast, and equals your patrol team spending half their shift in the Office!

The policy was developed through DHS’s Law Enforcement Coordination Council, a forum that allows the Department’s nine law enforcement agencies and offices to collaborate on law enforcement issues, with the input of stakeholders across the Department. This included subject matter experts from both the operational law enforcement agencies and DHS headquarters offices such as the Offices of Strategy, Policy, and Plans; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; General Counsel; Privacy; and Public Affairs.

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Simply put, the problem at the core of NIBRS reporting is that the FBI built the reporting for the wrong group of people.  Patrol is the group with all the information, but the reporting process couldn’t be more foreign to them.

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No more guessing what they need, or fixing it after the fact.  No more sending the report all over your agency.  It’s done right, the first time around.

”The level of support and care from sales to implementation is astounding. For a small agency such as ours, this was the solution to efficiency, ease of use, NIBRS compliance, and record management.

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With little to no training, Patrol is expected to know what NIBRS is, and how to report it correctly.  And predictably, because they’re poorly trained on a counterintuitive process, they mess it up.

Your patrol team doesn’t need specialty training, they need a tool that works for THEM, not the other way around.  By helping them classify their report when it’s created, in terms they’re familiar with, our software sets the requirements at the beginning of their work.  They know from the start what they need to put in, using terms they understand.

Many of our competitors offer “NIBRS Validators” designed to review the incident after it’s completed and tell the Officer what they forgot.  The problem with those tools is the same as NIBRS itself; if the Officer doesn’t know how to classify the incident, the tool can never work, no matter how good it is.

Having been there and done it, we can say on good authority that NIBRS was not designed with Patrol in mind.  The terminology NIBRS uses is different than the language spoken by Patrol, and the data NIBRS asks for is impossible to classify without the FBI’s secret decoder ring…

“Our ability to secure the homeland rests on public trust, which is built through accountability, transparency, and effectiveness in our law enforcement practices,” said Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. “Today’s policy announcement is designed to advance these essential values. Requiring the use of body-worn cameras by our law enforcement officers and agents is another important step DHS is making to bring our law enforcement workforce to the forefront of innovation, and to further build public trust and confidence in the thousands of dedicated and professional law enforcement officers at DHS.”