Missouri Uniform Crime Reporting Quality Assurance Review

PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirement of county, municipal and state law enforcement agencies to submit to a Uniform Crime Reporting Quality Assurance Review to ensure the reliable reporting of crime data, to ensure compliance with the national Uniform Crime Reporting requirements, to identify strengths/weaknesses in reporting methods, to improve the accuracy in crime reporting practices, to assure the validity of crime statistics, to increase awareness of national and state procedures and guidelines and to assist agencies with customized Uniform Crime Reporting training. (1) Each law enforcement agency in the state shall submit to a Uniform Crime Reporting Quality Assurance Review at least once every five (5) years. (2) All records relevant to a determination of compliance with section 43.505, RSMo, or these rules shall be open to inspection by the auditors without a subpoena. Records reviewed shall not predate the review by more than one (1) year, and shall include calls for service, complaint cards, investigative reports, arrest and booking records, or any other records required to determine agency compliance with 43.505, RSMo. (3) For overall unsatisfactory findings, the Uniform Crime Reporting program manager may send a letter to the chief executive officer at the agency, specifying areas of noncompliance. The letter will request a response in writing within thirty (30) days detailing the corrective action the agency will take and a projected date of compliance. A follow-up review will then be scheduled to ensure noncompliant topic areas have been corrected. If an agency fails to take corrective action, a report shall be delivered to the director of public safety at the end of the review cycle to notify the director the data from this agency is not compliant with state or national program standards. Data received during a specific time frame may also be identified as questionable within the state data repository until it is corrected by the agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation may also be notified the data they received from this agency for a specified time frame is of questionable accuracy. AUTHORITY: section 43.505, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed Dec. 14, 2006, effective July 30, 2007. *Original authority: 43.505, RSMo 2000.