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The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) recently completed a reorganization that will better enable the system to carry out its critical mission to assist state, major city and county, rural, tribal and border, as well as federal law enforcement, corrections and other criminal justice agencies in addressing their technology needs and challenges.
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Background
Originally created in 1994 as a program of the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ’s) Office of Science and Technology, the NLECTC System has realigned its outreach efforts into three new centers serving different demographic regions of the public safety community: the States, Major Cities and Counties Regional Center and the Small, Rural, Tribal and Border Regional Center.
Provisions
As a whole, the NLECTC System provides:
• Scientific and technical support to NIJ’s RDT&E projects. • Support for the transfer and adoption of technology into practice by law enforcement and corrections agencies, courts and crime laboratories. • Assistance in developing and disseminating equipment performance standards and technology guides. • Assistance in the demonstration, testing and evaluation of criminal justice tools and technologies. • Technology information and general and specialized technology assistance. • Assistance in setting NIJ’s research agenda by convening practitioner-based advisory groups to help identify criminal justice technology needs and gaps.TechBeat is the award-winning news-magazine of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) system. Our goal is to keep you up to date with technologies currently being developed by the NLECTC system, as well as other research and development efforts within the federal government and private industry. TechBeat is published monthly online and is available at no cost.
The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) provides the Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology News Summary as a service to law enforcement, corrections, and forensic science practitioners. The Summary includes abstracts of articles from major national newspapers, business magazines, Web sites, national and international wire services, and periodicals focusing on law enforcement and corrections technology.
NLECTC Centers of Excellence
The NLECTC system's regional centers, the Technology Centers of Excellence (CoE), and specialty offices work directly with United States Federal, State, and local government agencies; community leaders; and scientists to foster technological innovations that result in new products, services, systems, and strategies for America's criminal justice professionals.