Seminar Overview
Who should attend: Executives needing a practical understanding of NIBRS.
NOTE: This course focuses primarily on NIBRS reporting requirements. If the location you attend is in a state that is still reporting via the Summary Reporting System, the course will be very beneficial in preparing you for the transition to NIBRS.
Reading a NIBRS report is one thing; articulating the numbers to those who ask about them is something entirely different. We teach you what you need to know to understand, explain, review, and report your crime statistics correctly. Learn the common mistakes in crime reporting that lead to questioned crime stats. Ensure your agency stays out of the headlines and free of questionable crime reporting.
Topics include:
- Transitioning to NIBRS (for SRS states)
- Is your agency recording and reporting crime correctly?
- Dealing with the media.
- The difference between NIBRS definitions and state statute.
- Are your officers reporting multiple offense cases correctly?
- Validating and presenting NIBRS stats.
- How are crimes counted?
- How are cases cleared?
- Arrests vs. clearances.
- When can you really exceptionally clear a case?
- Learn the most common causes of erroneous stats
Included material
After registering, you will receive a link via email to online course material including UCR/NIBRS specifications, articles of interest, state UCR contact lists, and more.
Optional NIBRS Report Writing Manual ($195 for seminar attendees)
Available for purchase when you register. Designed for officers, supervisors and records personnel, this NIBRS compliant, customizable report writing manual will ensure your agency is producing accurate, error-free, well-written reports. Your officers will have a comprehensive guide that will improve the quality of reporting, provide policy requiring thorough review of reports by supervisors, and standards for everyone to follow.
What’s Inside
- NIBRS data elements and definitions
- Report writing standards
- Scenarios for officers
- Supervisor responsibilities
- Report review & correction policy
- Situations requiring a report
- By the end of shift policy
- How many reports do I write? (Time and Place Rule, Acting in Concert, Hotel Rule)
- How crimes are counted
- Clearing cases by exception
- Unfounding cases
- Error-tracking and performance metrics
How to Buy
You can purchase the manual when you register. It will be emailed to you as a MS Word document.
Seminar registration: $250/person. Please note, the price for training is per-person. While it’s possible for multiple people to view the training online, the format of the training doesn’t change the value of the knowledge learned by each attendee. Just as if the seminar was in-person, we ask that you register each person who plans on participating and receiving the information that will be provided. Thank you.
Optional report writing manual: $195 for seminar attendees (only 1 needed per agency). The manual is available for purchase when you register for the seminar. It will be emailed to you as a MS Word document.
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Interested in Free Training? Host a Course
If you would like to have one of our workshops held at your agency and allow others to attend, you'll get 2 free seats and we'll do all the work!
Payment Info
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Cancellations must be made more than 5 days in advance to receive a refund. Other cancellations will be eligible for a credit to a future class.
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