STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Public Safety
AGENDA DATE: August 12, 2020
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Police Department
EXECUTIVE: Jon Fortune
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Dallas, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to establish and define a partnership between the parties that will result in an ATF National Integrated Ballistic Information Network system installation, operation, and administration for the collection, timely analysis, and dissemination of crime gun data to enhance the efforts of law enforcement to integrate resources to reduce firearms violence, identify shooters, and refer them for prosecution - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
This Memorandum of Understanding will ensure the consistency, integrity, and success of National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), ATF has enacted Minimum Required Operating Standards (MROS). The MROS, listed below, are rooted in ATF's "Four Critical Steps for Successful NIBIN Program" - comprehensive collection, timeliness, investigative follow-up, and feedback. They identify the practices that best allow NIBIN to provide comprehensive and timely crime gun intelligence. Beginning July 2018, all NIBIN partners will comply with the following:
1. Enter all fired or test fired cartridges cases from serviced law enforcement agencies through a NIBIN acquisition machine within two business days of receipt.
2. Enter accurately all required information during the acquisition process on the NIBIN acquisition machine.
3. Correlate and conduct a secondary review of any potential NIBIN leads through an approved NIBIN correlation machine within two business days.
4. Disseminate NIBIN leads within 24 hours.
5. Designate and maintain a NIBIN program administrator.
6. No policy shall inhibit or restrict NIBIN submissio...
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