Renew by Mail. Required Documents. Replace License. The National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System NLETS is a secure information sharing system that local, state and federal law enforcement agencies use to communicate and share data. NLETS links together every law enforcement, justice and public safety agency for sharing and exchanging criminal justice information. The network includes an interface to the SD LETS network, allowing South Dakota law enforcement, criminal justice and public safety entities to cooperate with other states and federal government agencies.
NLETS facilitates nearly 1. Contact Name. All states interface with Nlets via a computer-to-computer interface. This allows states to use varied formats, depending upon the state requirements and the particular terminal and computer network within that state. Many of the specific operations of Nlets will be transparent to local users in the states. Differences in formats and types of terminals will be resolved in the state computer program that supports the Nlets interface.
The identification of precincts, substations, or other terminal locations within a single agency may be provided for by assigning specific numbers as the last two characters of the ORI. By providing this level of definition, the NCIC ORI code can be used to identify and address individual terminals on the state system or on computer systems within a state such as county or metropolitan systems.
There may be instances where use of the last two characters of the standard ORI is insufficient to uniquely identify a terminal. This is accomplished by placing an "S" in the 8th position of the agency's ORI. This "S" will allow this terminal to access Nlets through the state system while also allowing other terminals from the same agency to access Nlets through their Federal Member system, e.
The ORIs for the following Federal agency terminals must be modified in order to provide them access through state systems. Agencies need not concern themselves with other Federal agencies i. If a user provides Nlets service to any of these agency terminals through their state system and this includes any that may be using regional or municipal systems within a state , the 8th character of their ORI must be changed to "S".
There are also provisions for Federal members to provide service to other Federal members that have a direct interface. For example, if U. Agencies needing details on these provisions should contact the Nlets office. Nlets has also provided its users with a "control field" option. When sent, it must be returned to the user in all responses to the original message.
This field may be used to carry additional information, to identify specific terminals or for whatever purpose the initiator of the message may desire. If a terminal is responding to a message that contains a control field, this field must be inserted in the response message.
All state computer interfaces should be programmed to receive, store, and return this data. Due to the possibility that states and federal agencies may have difficulty in supporting this option, they are encouraged to have multiple ORIs assigned rather than use the control field to supplement normal terminal addressing.
No special addressing techniques are required for point-to-point messages. Requests for agency-wide all-points bulletins to terminals on Federal systems must be addressed to the two-character identifiers. The success of the system depends upon enforcing Nlets polices that control who uses the network and for what authorized purposes. Although Nlets is responsible for development of policy, the Nlets members carry the burden for assuring that all Nlets policies and regulations in this regard are followed.
Nlets is a criminal justice system. See 4 in the table that follows. The table that follows lists the agencies and organizations that are authorized to participate on Nlets along with special restrictions if any. Government agencies authorized under state or Federal statute to investigate, respond to, regulate, clean up or evacuate as a result of chemical, hazardous material, or an incendiary incident. This also includes state and local emergency management offices. If assigned by Nlets the agency is restricted from requesting CHRI and cannot use Nlets for licensing or employment purposes.
Civil Courts when seeking criminal history information pursuant to the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of for use when hearing civil domestic violence or stalking cases. All NSAs are responsible for assuring that any agencies that they provide Nlets access to is included in the table above. When a criminal justice agency performs a service on behalf of a governmental non-criminal justice agency, each agency must have an ORI.
In all transactions the ORI of the governmental non-criminal justice agency must be used. This is the "S" ORI. If the non-criminal justice agency contracts with a private firm, there must be an agreement signed by a representative from the non-criminal justice agency, the private contractor and the Nlets representative.
This agreement guarantees that the non-criminal justice agency will assure that Nlets policies and procedures are followed by the private contractor. The following is a list of users and agencies that have been authorized to access Nlets and also have been approved as members. Each state member is responsible for providing an interface with Nlets, thereby providing access for all criminal justice agencies or other authorized agencies in the membership to all other criminal justice or other authorized agencies in the nation.
With this responsibility, the member has the authority, and must exercise the authority, to ensure that all users provided access by the member follow the Nlets policies, especially those relating to security of the system and security of the information transmitted on the system.
Failure of the agencies within the member state or agency to follow the proper procedures must be called to the attention of the Nlets control terminal officer who will in turn take corrective action with the originating agency. Continued violations must be reported to the Nlets Board of Directors for further action. Nlets' equipment or line problems are to be reported to the Nlets Control Center by the user agency.
The Nlets Control Center will then coordinate all trouble isolation. Costs associated with network maintenance are included in the Nlets membership fees. All traffic over the system must be in the prescribed message form. Unnecessary messages with superfluous verbiage or embellishments are prohibited. Information of no value to the addressee must be avoided. For example, address or telephone number of parents reporting runaway children are of no value to another department who will notify the originating department, not the parents, of any apprehension.
The name of the crime should be clearly specified and if a warrant has or will be issued. In view of the many persons who may receive messages, the use of non-standard abbreviations must be avoided. Keep in mind that many abbreviations that may be in common use within one department or in one state may be entirely unknown and confusing to another department or state. It is imperative that departments originating want messages of any type cancel these messages when they no longer apply.
Messages may be canceled only by the originating department. Departments apprehending a wanted subject or recovering a stolen or wanted vehicle should direct a message to the originating station only, reporting the apprehension or recovery. The originating department should then cancel their outstanding messages and clear their NCIC file entry.
Nlets is comprised of eight regions. Each region represents six - seven states and several federal agencies that are grouped together to represent a regional community of interest.
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