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Glossary of Law Enforcement Acronyms

   

 A
ABIS Automated Biometric Identification System
ACIC Arkansas Crime Information Center
ACJIC Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center
Acrime
Alien Criminal Information Management System
AFIS
Automated Fingerprint Identification System
AFOSI
Air Force Office of Special Investigations
AISLE
Accelerated Information Sharing Law Enforcement
AIX
IBM's Unix Implemenation
AOC
Administer of Court
API
Application Program Interface
APPA
American Probation and Parole Association   
ARJIS
Automated Regional Justice Information System  
ASCIA
Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies  
ASCLD
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors   
ASUCRP Association of State Uniform Crime Reporting Programs
ATF
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives   
AVl
Automated Vehicle Location system
 B
BJS   Bureau of Justice and Statistics
 C
CAD  Computer Aided Dispatch (or computer assisted dispatch)
CANDLE  Collaboration between AAMVA and Nlets for Drivers License Exchange
CBP  U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
CCH
Computerized Criminal Histories
CCIPS   Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, U.S. DOJ
CHIEF  Criminal History Information Exchange Format
CHOPRS  Criminal History Online Public Records System
CHRI  Criminal History Record Information
CITA Crime Indentification Technology Act
CJIN
Criminal Justice Information Network
CJIS  Criminal Justice Information System
CJIS Div.
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division  
CPI
Computer Projects of Illinois
CPIC  Canadian Police Information Centre
D
DHS  Department of Homeland Security
DOC  Department of Corrections
DoD U.S. Department of Defense 
DOJ U.S. Department of Justice
 F 
FBI  Federal Bureau of Investigation 
FBI CJIS
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division 
FEA
Federal Enterprise Architecture
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency  
 G
GIS
Geographic Information System
GIWG  Global Information Working Group
GJXDM  Global Justice XML Data Model
GLOBAL  Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
GOWG  Global Outreach Working Group
GSA
General Services Administration
H
HPD  Hawaii Police Department
HTML  Hypertext Markup Language
  I
ICE  Immigration and Customs Enforcement
IDEALS  Identification of Driver for Activities of Law and Safety
iDSM  Interim Data Sharing Model
IEPD  Information Exchange Package Documentation
IJIS  Integrated Justice Information Systems
IJIS Institute  Founded on the principal that public/private partnerships in the area of justice system information sharing would contribute to the successful implementation of integrated justice systems throughout the country.
INS
 Immigration and Naturalization Service
INTERPOL  International Criminal Police Organization
IP  Input Processor
iServices  Integrated System for Electronic Retrieval of Vital Information for Crime Enforcement and Security
ITEP  Information Technology and Evaluation Program
IWG  Industry Working Group
 J 
JAR  Java Archive file is a file that contains the class, image, and sound files for a Java application or applet gathered into a single file.
JAVA  A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems which allows World Wide Web pages to contain code that is executed on the browser.
L
LAN
Local-area Network
LEAA  Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (U.S. DOJ, disbanded in early 1980s)
LEIN  Law Enforcement Information Network
LEIS  Law Enforcement Information Sharing
LEISP  Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program (U.S. DOJ initiative)
LEITSC  Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council 
LEIU  Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit
LESC  Law Enforcement Support Center
LOGIC  Live Operational Geospatial Information Capability
M
MICJIN  Michigan Criminal Justice Information Center
MQ Series  The IBM MQ Series family of products provides transactional message queuing for many platforms (Windows, Linux, IBM mainframe and midrange, and Unix).
N
NCHIP  National Criminal History Improvement Program 
NDLS  News Drivers License System
nexTEST  Product name for NCIC Testing software from Peak Performance Solutions
NIEM  National Information Exchange Model
NIJ  National Institute of Justice
NISP  Nlets Interstate Sharing of Photos
Nlets  National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System
NVPS  National Virtual Pointer System
O
OASIS  Oklahoma Automated Secure Information Sharing
OP  Output Processor
P
PDF Portable Document Format 
PRC  Planning Research Corporation
R
RAND  Random Access to Nlets Data
RCMP  Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RMDTS  Remote Data Terminal System
S
SAM Site Automated Monitoring
SAVIN  Statewide Application Victim Information and Notification System
SBU  Sensitive but Unclassified
SRFERS
State, Regional, Federal Enterprise Retrieval System
T
TDI  Texas Department of Insurance
TP  Transaction Processor
TPWD
Texas Parks and Wildfire Department
U
US DOJ  United State Department of Justice
US NCB  United States National Central Bureau
V
VCHIP  Vermont Criminal History Information Program
VCIC
Vermont Criminal Information Center
VINE  Victim Information and Notification Everyday
VNS  Victim Notification System
VSP  Virgina State Police
W
WVSP  West Virgina State Police
X
XML  eXtensible Markup Language
XSTF  Global Justice XML Structure Task Force