National Crime Information Center

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) is "a computerized index of criminal justice information (i.e.- criminal record history information, fugitives, stolen properties, missing persons). 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."

"The purpose for maintaining the NCIC system is to provide a computerized database for ready access by a criminal justice agency making an inquiry and for prompt disclosure of information in the system from other criminal justice agencies about crimes and criminals. 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."

Contact details
National Crime Information Center Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division 1000 Custer Hollow Road Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306 Telephone: (304) 625-2000 URL: www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm

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