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North Carolina Police Move to Meet FBI Reporting System Deadline

The High Point Police Department recently began submitting its crime data to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, ahead of the Jan. 2019 deadline.

(TNS)  — High Point, N.C., police are changing how they record crime data due to an impending deadline for law enforcement agencies nationwide to switch over to a new system.

The High Point Police Department recently began submitting its crime data to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, according to standards required by the National Incident-Based Reporting System.

Previously, the police department’s reporting system only displayed the most serious offense in a given incident, but the new system will display each offense from a given incident as its own report.

“What we had under our old reporting system, if we had one incident, say items were stolen, house broken into and the mattress was cut, under the old system, those three crimes would be one incident,” said High Point Police Lt. Curtis Cheeks III. “Under NIBRS, those three things would all require a separate report.”

The biggest change is the amount of data collected from the old system, the summary reporting system, compared to NIBRS. Where SRS covered 28 crimes, NIBRS specifies 62 crimes.

As far as demographic data, Cheeks said the department has been collecting the data NIBRS requires for some time now.

“For us it's not that huge of a change other than it’s a different system,” Cheeks said. “A lot of the things that they’re hoping to capture with this new reporting style, we've been capturing with our data and running our reports on to assess crime trends in the city of High Point.”

The move from SRS to NIBRS is part of a statewide mandate requiring all law enforcement agencies to transition to the system by Jan. 1, 2019.

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