Volume 10
Feb 2017 Edition around the country . ( Historical : Describes National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ) computer system based in Washington , DC , serving law enforcement agencies . In 1967 , NCIC computer system went into operation . Courtesy of the National Archives Video Collection and YouTube )
The original proposal was limited to law enforcement agencies in the Washington , D . C . metropolitan areas , but the value of such a system for all of law enforcement couldn ’ t be ignored .
Director J . Edgar Hoover presided over a meeting during which the decision was made to implement a computer system that would centralize crime information from every state and provide that information to law enforcement agencies
Working with the International Association of Chiefs of Police , the FBI created an advisory board of state and local police to develop nationwide standards and also consulted with the U . S . Department of Commerce to build an effective telecommunications system . And on January 27 , 1967 , the National Crime Information Center — soon to be better known by its initials NCIC — was launched .
Shown here are Bureau personnel in the mid- 1970s managing the computer storage tapes that contained all NCIC records and transaction logs . This legacy system required operator intervention to ensure that tapes were effectively maintained . Original post https :// www . fbi . gov / news / stories / ncic-turns-50
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