Sheriff Michael A. Helmig has announced that the Boone County Sheriff’s Office voluntary participation in the upcoming The National Use-of-Force Data Collection Pilot which is being administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).
The initiation of a National Use-of-Force Data Collection is in response to local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement’s need to produce a national picture of the trends and characteristics of use of force by law enforcement.
The collection and reporting will include use of force that results in the death or serious bodily injury of a person, as well as when a law enforcement officer discharges a firearm at or in the direction of a person. The data collected will focus on information that is readily known and obtainable by law enforcement on the circumstances surrounding the incident, the subjects, and the officers with the initial investigation following an incident.
“This is simply the next step in our long-standing procedure of investigating both use-of-force as well as show-of-force incidents our deputies are involved in”, Helmig said. “I pray we don’t have any submissions to the program but if we do, we are prepared to have other sets of eyes reviewing it.”
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