NCIC
(National Crime Information Center) is a computerized index of criminal
justice information. It is available to federal, state, and local law
enforcement and other criminal justice agencies and is operational 24
hours a day, 365 days a year. This information assists authorized agencies
in criminal justice and related law enforcement objectives, such as
apprehending fugitives, locating missing persons, locating and returning
stolen property, as well as in the protection of the law enforcement
officers encountering the individuals described in the system. The
State of Nebraska's system is NCIS (Nebraska Criminal Information System).
The National Law Enforcement
Telecommunications System, (NLETS) is an interface to facilitate
communications with other law enforcement agencies throughout the country
including vehicle registration, driver history and criminal history record
information
.
Through NCIC, the
dispatcher has access to:
- Driver’s Abstracts/Histories
- Registration Files
- Criminal Histories
- Stolen Article, Security, and Gun
files
- Stolen License Plate, Vehicle, and
Boat files
- Missing Persons (adult or juvenile),
Wanted Persons, and Unidentified Body Files