NRC-LINX Program

About the Program

Category: Criminal Justice and Public Safety (Best in Category)

Year: 2010

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Police Chiefs Committee has collaborated with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) to launch the National Capital Region Law Enforcement Information Exchange (NCR-LInX). Under the LInX information sharing model, each region establishes a LInX Governance/Advisory Board consisting of the head of each participating law enforcement agency. Member agencies contribute information from their individual records management systems. The LInX model has been successfully deployed to numerous regions in the country, providing an excellent investigative tool through the use of an analytical data warehouse containing information from participating local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. Using a standard web browser, the system provides secure access to data provided by the participating federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies. The combined law enforcement data is integrated on a daily basis and provides information about incidents across all of the jurisdictions to include police reports, mug shots, arrests data, field interrogations and other law enforcement digitized data. Overlaying that is a powerful ser of search and analytical tools. As a result, this system is the most widely used investigative tool in the region since its implementation.