NIBRS Incident Report to Incident Reference IEP Conversion Utility
This utility has been developed as part of the SEARCH project to develop a Reference Information Exchange Package (IEP) for incident reporting. As part of that project, the utility provided a mechanism to test the robustness of the IEP, since one requirement of the IEP was the capability of representing a NIBRS incident report. During the development of this utility, a small number of missing IEP elements were discovered and incorporated into the final version of the IEP.
The utility is also a potentially valuable tool (or at least a solid basis for development of a tool) that could be incorporated into NIBRS-compliant law enforcement records management systems (RMSes), should those systems wish to emit XML instance reports that are valid according to the IEP structure.
Overview of NIBRS Incident Report to Incident Reference IEP Conversion Utility 
A Word document describing the utility, including a usage walkthrough; also a set of notes regarding mapping NIBRS to the IEPD
nibrs-iep-converter.zip (zip)Zip file containing the executable utility (see overview.doc for directions on how to use)
nibrs-iep-converter-src.zip (zip)Source distribution for the utility (Java source code, build script, tests, etc.)
Publication of Reference GJXDM Information Exchange Packages
for Law Enforcement Announced
SEARCH, with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), has recently completed a project to develop Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) Information Exchange Packages (IEPs) for Law Enforcement.
These law enforcement IEPs have been developed collaboratively by public sector subject-matter experts and technical developers, with open-source, non-proprietary tools. The publication of ubiquitous law enforcement IEPs provides, for the first time, tangible models and GJXDM content that can be used by local law enforcement agencies, whether large or small, urban or rural, federal, tribal, state, county or local, to begin on the path of data interoperability to support information sharing about crimes and offenders throughout our nation.
Law Enforcement Information Exchange Package Documentation Workshop Report, March 2005
Field Interview Report
A Field Interview Report (FIR) is a record of a field officer's stop of an individual or vehicle. The officer uses the FIR to gather information about an individual, who is acting suspiciously, may have had the potential of committing a crime or is being checked as he or she is passing through a jurisdiction's boundary. Information is captured about the event, to record the individual, vehicle, location and field officer related to the FIR for the purpose of recording the event for possible future investigations and identification.
The
Field Interview Report IEPD (864k, zip) is record of the actions, methodology and deliverables, including subset, constraint and document schemas and XML instance, completed by SEARCH Law Enforcement Workgroup 002 for re-use by other criminal justice practitioners and information technology industry specialists.
Charging Document
SEARCH Law Enforcement Workgroup 004 was tasked with developing a GJXDM Information Exchange Package (IEP) for Criminal Complaints, Indictments, Informations and Juvenile Petitions. These prosecution filing documents are generally initiated from submission of referral (booking) information exchange packages from law enforcement to prosecution.
The
Charging Document IEPD (590kb, zip) provides GJXDM-conformant sample schemas, instances, a document data model and analysis spreadsheet(s). The IEPD was built from actual sample charging documents from multiple jurisdictions and in consultation with practitioners within the Criminal Justice community.
Sentence Order
The
Sentence Order IEP (120k, zip) is the result of a workshop held June 21-24, 2004, in Denver, Colorado, hosted by the Colorado Administrative Office of the Courts and co-sponsored by SEARCH, OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) and the National Center for State Courts.
The business purpose of the Sentence Order IEP is as follows:
- To define a data structure that describes a court order of judgment and sentence, which may or may not include commitment, following adjudication of a criminal cause of action, including references to supporting documents.
- To provide a model (and potentially an aspirational standard) for electronic exchange of sentence information between justice entities including: the court, prosecution, defense counsel, corrections and detention.
This IEP is NOT intended to serve as a Reference IEP, but as a model. A GJXDM Information Exchange Package Description may have the word "Reference" in its title if it has been mandated, approved, endorsed, recommended, or acknowledged by a cognizant organization. The IEP has been provided to the National Center for State Courts for further review.
Information Exchange Package Documentation — Sentence Order IEP
Incident Report
The business purpose of the
Incident Reporting Reference IEP (895k, zip) is: 1) to define a data structure that describes a reported and/or observed activity in which law enforcement documents the initial and ongoing information about the activity, including references to supporting documents; 2) to provide a model (and potentially an aspirational standard) for electronic exchange of incident information between law enforcement agencies and local, state, and national partners; 3) to provide a similar model for use by other first-responder and incident management organizations (e.g., transportation incident responders); and 4) to provide a schema that can be used to structure XML instances that law enforcement agencies can use to report to the federal government, including statistical crime reporting.
The intent of the IEP is to provide a reference model of consistently structured and reusable pieces of information to be leveraged by the law enforcement community for its internal use and for information exchange with other justice partners.
The Incident Reporting IEPD is a record of the actions, methodology and deliverables completed by SEARCH Law Enforcement Workgroup 001 for re-use by other criminal justice practitioners and information technology industry specialists.
