Criminal Justice Information Services

About CJIS Overview CJIS Complex and Directions News and Stories Most Requested Services IAFIS: Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System LEO: Law Enforcement Online NICS: National Instant Criminal Background Check System NCIC: National Crime Information Center UCR/NIBRS: Uniform Crime Reporting Program/National Incident-Based Reporting System More Programs APB: Advisory Policy Board Bioterrorism Security Risk Assessment Compact Council Community Outreach Program N-DEx: Law Enforcement National Data Exchange

Our Criminal Justice Information Services or CJIS complex in West Virginia is home to a range of state-of-the-art technologies and statistical services that serve the FBI and the entire criminal justice community—from our annual crime stats to our automated fingerprint systems, from our secure communications channel for law enforcement to our gun background checks.

Thomas E. Bush III
Assistant Director, CJIS

Along with IAFIS—our automated fingerprint ID system—we offer a range of information, training, and services related to fingerprints and criminal histories.

• Fingerprint Overview and History (pdf)
• Ordering Fingerprint Cards & Training Aids
• Our Checks on Bank Employees
• Requesting Your Fingerprint Record/Rap Sheet
• FBI Name Checks For Fingerprint Submissions (pdf)
• Submitting Arrest Dispositions
• Taking Legible Fingerprints
• Training: Fingerprints/Criminal History Records and Upcoming Classes

Get our range of crime stats past and present here on this website.

• 2006 Crime in the U.S.
• 2005 Crime in the U.S.
• 2005 Hate Crime stats
• 2005 Law Enforcement deaths/assaults
• More statistics