WHEREAS, in 1992 the Office of National Drug Control Policy recognized a critical need for a system to increase information sharing among federal, state and local law enforcement agencies; and WHEREAS, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) responded to the request by developing the National Drug Pointer Index (NDPIX), which is a fully automated pointer information system that provides participating federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies with an automated response capability to determine if a drug investigative target is under active investigation by any other participating agency; and WHEREAS, DEA has been working towards enhancement of NDPIX to increase information sharing through electronic connectivity and automation among federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; and WHEREAS, DEA with its partners, the Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), is developing a National Virtual Pointer System (NVPS) that will be comprised of RISS, HIDTA, NDPIX, and possibly other state and local target deconfliction databases; and WHEREAS, the NVPS will be an automated system that will connect existing target deconfliction databases dealing with all crimes into one virtual pointer system. This will allow participating federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies access to all participating agency target deconfliction databases through a single point of entry; and WHEREAS, the success of NVPS is dependent upon all law enforcement agencies entering target information of their criminal investigations; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, that the International Association of Chiefs of Police calls upon all member agencies (federal, state, local, and tribal) to enter all criminal investigative targets into available target deconfliction systems (i.e., HIDTA, RISS, NDPIX) that will constitute and populate the NVPS.