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Posted by: kwflatbed

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — Local police departments would be required to enter all warrants for felony crimes and serious misdemeanors into a national FBI database under a bill filed yesterday by Gov. Mitt Romney.
Under existing law, police chiefs have discretion when deciding which warrants to enter and when to enter them.
Romney's bill would force police to enter warrants for serious violent crimes and narcotics trafficking into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center database within 24 hours of being issued.
Warrants for other types of felonies and serious misdemeanors would have to be entered within 72 hours.
"Right now we have a hodgepodge system where too much is left to chance," Romney said.
The bill also requires police to enter some warrants that have been previously issued into the federal system.

Posted by: Bullock

I don't argue that they shouldn't be entered but shouldn't the courts handle that? It's hard to keep track of the small amount of NCIC warrants out there now never mind all the adding in the wms warrants that are entered and recalled every day.

Posted by: dh18

I'm sure if the right people asked (governor's office) CJIS could create a script that automatically converted the WMS warrants into NCIC warrants.

Posted by: USMCMP5811

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Originally Posted by Bullock

I don't argue that they shouldn't be entered but shouldn't the courts handle that? It's hard to keep track of the small amount of NCIC warrants out there now never mind all the adding in the wms warrants that are entered and recalled every day.

Posted by: Piper

It should totally be the job of the courts, we are getting ready to start doing it @ my PD and it sounds like a hassle. I think it was the talk of the IACP Conference last week.

Posted by: Curious EMT

All depts got letters from CJIS mandating that all felony charges be entered into NCIC by the local dept a month ago. Last week, they sent out a list of all outstanding Felony WMS warrants that arent in NCIC, again mandating they be put in NCIC. It's been quite a project to get them entered....

Posted by: Bullock

CuriousEmt your department is already entering them? As far as mine is concerned until it is law we are not going to take on that task.

Posted by: Curious EMT

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Originally Posted by Bullock

CuriousEmt your department is already entering them? As far as mine is concerned until it is law we are not going to take on that task.

Yup. I'll take a look at the wording on the letter when I go in tonight, but the brass ordered us to act on it. We have almost 100 pages of warrants to enter, theres 5-6 warrants on each page

Posted by: Bullock

We took a very close wording at the letter and although it strongly suggests it, it does not mandate it if you read on. We actually called one of the CJIS big wigs, I think his last name was Wood and it is in a bill but has not been passed yet.

The intial overtime would be nice to back enter the warrants but the liability added is not worth it. How can dispatchers track this and continue to do their jobs?

Posted by: Curious EMT

Many other states manage it, we'll have to find a way. Im sure this bill will be passed.

Posted by: Bullock

Yah agreed I don't see it not passing. Any particular way your department is tracking the warrants once they are entered? Or are you just monitoring leaps updates?

Posted by: Curious EMT

We go by the WMS notification through the cjis computer. We enter it into NCIC, then enter the NIC number into IMC

Posted by: NEPS

Since it is pitched as an officer safety issue, I suppose it is appropriate for police departments to handle NCIC warrant entry if it can't be done automatically through WMS. (I remember the days before WMS when the police departments were responsible for entering paper warrants into LEAPS. Yuck.)

My thought is: here we are entering all these NOEX (no extradition) warrants; Why can we not get a simpler process to get extraditions approved by the district attorneys (or someone who can pay for them, like a state fund, for example) so that warrants may be entered to actually bring offenders before the court. At one time that is what arrest warrants were for.

Posted by: Curious EMT

The people that need to be extridited will be. Do you want to pick up every bounced $300 check warrant from Ohio?

The people that need to be shipped are...

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