FIBRS Compliance Project / Crime Analysis System Modernization

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) mandated that all Florida law enforcement agencies comply with a new standard of universal crime reporting (UCR) by 2021. The new standard, based on the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), but modified for Florida (FIBRS) required changes in multiple existing police systems. Many new items and relationships that did not exist under the Summary Reporting System (SRS) needed to be created. A new rule engine was needed to process input from existing and new police data to ensure that the data was FIBRS compliant before submission to FDLE. To add complexity to this task, some parts of existing police systems were too old to effectively update – the tools were unsupported and/or not compliant with modern standards of system development. A joint initiative between Miami-Dade Police (MDPD) and Information Technology (ITD) departments began in 2017 to meet that requirement and the solution was implemented in 2021.