NDD.024.a07

WHEREAS, a critical need to facilitate information sharing through electronic connectivity and automation continues to exist among federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies; and

WHEREAS, to meet this challenge, DEA, HIDTA, and their state and local partners have created an interagency committee to implement a National Virtual Pointer System (NVPS) (The President National Drug Control Strategy, Chapter III: Disrupting the Market for Illicit Drugs, February 2007); and

WHEREAS, NVPS connects existing federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement investigative systems, such as the National Drug Pointer Index (NDPIX), to eliminate the possibility that multiple law enforcement organizations activities could conflict in investigating and arresting the same criminal or criminal organization and allows for sharing of vital intelligence about the target; and

WHEREAS, NVPS enables participating agencies to exchange target information through a single point of entry using a sensitive but unclassified network, and establishes a single format for information sharing that lets participating systems communicate with many dissimilar systems; and

WHEREAS, traditional, hierarchical intelligence functions need to be reexamined and replaced with cooperative, fluid structures that can collect information and move intelligence to end users more quickly (Intelligence Led Policing: The New Intelligence Architecture, September 2005);and

WHEREAS, the success of NVPS is dependent upon all law enforcement agencies entering target information about their criminal investigations on a routine basis; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED that the International Association of Chiefs of Police duly assembled at its 114th Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, calls upon all member agencies (federal, state, local, and tribal) to enter all criminal investigative targets into available target deconfliction systems comprising the National Virtual Pointer System (NVPS).