West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 81 - State Police › Title 81 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA STATE POLICE › Series 81-11 - Uniform Crime Reporting Program General Guidelines And Reporting Requirement › Section 81-11-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this rule, unless in a context that clearly
				  requires a different meaning, the term:
2.1. Approved -- software that meets the
				specifications listed in the FBI=s Uniform Crime Reporting National
				Incident-Based Reporting Systems, Volumes: 1 - Data Collection Guidelines, 2 -
				Data Submission Specifications, 4 - Error Message Manual, and the
				specifications listed in the West Virginia NIBRS implementation data fields and
				the West Virginia file document layout. For a vendors= software to be approved,
				the software must produce zero percent errors when utilizing test data. Another
				method of a vendor achieving approval status is when a UCR contributing agency
				employing the software becomes certified.
2.2. Certified -- a contributing agency that
				is submitting IBR data on computer disk whose data complies with the
				specifications listed in the FBI=s Uniform Crime Reporting National
				Incident-Based Reporting Systems, Volumes: 1 - Data Collection Guidelines, 2 -
				Data Submission Specifications, 4 - Error Message Manual, and the
				specifications listed in the West Virginia NIBRS implementation data fields and
				the West Virginia file document layout. The agency must submit 3 months in
				succession of actual crime incident data with zero percent errors to achieve
				certification.
2.3. Contributing
				Agency -- a West Virginia law enforcement agency that has been assigned an
				Originating Identifier (ORI) by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and
				is mandated by W. Va. Code '15-2-24(i)
				and (j) to submit uniform crime reports in
				the form, content, time and manner prescribed by the Criminal Identification
				Bureau of the West Virginia State Police.
2.4. Incident Based Reporting (IBR) -- an
				enhanced crime reporting system in which law enforcement agencies collect
				detailed data regarding individual crime incidents and arrests and submits them
				in separate "reports". In West Virginia the prescribed data elements and data
				values utilize the NIBRS standards, plus other elements and values qualified in
				the West Virginia NIBRS implementation data fields and the West Virginia file
				document layout. These West Virginia fields and values also include the
				information required for collection by the WV Family Violence Prevention Act W.
				Va. Code '48-2A-9.
2.5. National
				Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) -- the IBR system developed for
				reporting crime figures to the FBI. Prescribed data elements and data values to
				describe each incident and arrest are to be found in the publications, Uniform
				Crime Reporting National Incident-Based Reporting Systems (Volumes 1, 2 and
				4).
2.6. Summary Based Reporting --
				the traditional system of crime reporting where law enforcement agencies tally
				the number of occurrences of Part I Offenses as well as arrest data for both
				Part I and Part II offenses and submit aggregate counts of the collected data
				in monthly summarized reports indirectly to the FBI through the State UCR
				Program. The guidelines for summary reporting are found in the FBI publication
				Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook.
2.7. Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) -- is a
				city, county and state law enforcement program which provides a nationwide view
				of crime based on submission of statistics by law enforcement agencies
				throughout the country. The crime data is submitted to the State UCR program
				which forwards the data to the national UCR program which is administered by
				the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The authorization for the state UCR
				program in West Virginia is found in W. Va. Code '15-2-24(i)
				and (j).