Criminal Justice Information Services Division

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Director: Robert S. Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Deputy Director: John S. Pistole
Department: Justice
Divisions:
FBI Academy FBI Laboratory Criminal Justice Information Services
Major units:
Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) Counterterrorism Division (CTD) Law Enforcement Bulletin Unit (LEBU) Hostage Rescue Team (FBI) (HRT) Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) National Security Branch (NSB)
Lists:
List of FBI Directors List of FBI Field Offices
Programs:
Notable operations COINTELPRO Crime statistics NIBRS Uniform Crime Reports Most wanted FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
Key people:
J. Edgar Hoover W. Mark Felt Joseph L. Gormley
Miscellaneous:
FBI portrayal in the media
Website:
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.