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participating agencies, current
and proposed. Further, there is significant support
from the Secretary of Public Safety John Marshall. The
continued sharing of public safety information has been
and continues to be of great interest at the state
level. Projects that are regionally based are often
receiving support for their initiative. The
funding was received, and the five additional
jurisdictions were added to the network.
CRIMES GETTING ATTENTION
Recently, the success of CRIMES
has generated interest from federal agencies that are
looking at the richness of this important database. The
CRIMES Board of Directors is in the final stages of
working out an agreement with the Naval Criminal
Intelligence Service (NCIS) to become a full
participant in CRIMES. This addition will continue to
widen and expand the scope of investigative
capabilities for all participating jurisdictions.
The NCIS will bring a powerful database to the
network that will allow data mining and be overlaid
with investigative analytical tools (software), thereby
enabling an investigator not only to get information
from all jurisdictions in Hampton Roads and NCIS, but
take that information and manipulate it in a way that
gives better meaning pertinent to the solving of
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criminal activity.
Additionally, the new partnership will enhance
the system by providing the funding to build a mug shot
interface. Having a photograph available of a
suspect, no matter in which jurisdiction he or she was
arrested, is invaluable as an investigative tool.
The CRIMES program, once only a
partial success in the region for many years, has taken
on new life and created a greater partnership among law
enforcement agencies across Hampton Roads. The
need to share as much criminal justice information as
possible and have that information presented in a
useable form is more important than ever. Only
through a shared vision and cooperation among the
Hampton Roads Chiefs of Police has this come to
fruition. Because of this, all of Hampton Roads
will realize a greater law enforcement capability and,
hopefully, less crime resulting in a better quality of
life for all. 
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