BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES - 2014

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Taylor a1 i (sup.woa� ") MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the "Santa Ana Police Department" Regarding the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is entered into by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATE), and the "Santa Ana Police Department," hereinafter collectively referred to as "the parties," and the "Santa Ana Police Department," referred to as the "NIBIN Partner." This MOU establishes and defines a partnership between the parties that will result in an ATE National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) system installation, operation, and administration for the collection, timely analysis, and dissemination of crime gun data to enhance the efforts of law enforcement to integrate resources to reduce firearms violence, identify shooters, and refer them for prosecution. AUTHORITY This MOU is established pursuant to the authority of the participants to engage in activities related to the investigation and suppression of violent crimes involving firearms. ATF's authority is derived from, among other things, the Gun Control Act of 1968 (as amended), 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44. BACKGROUND The ATE NIBIN Program uses an integrated investigative approach that works in concert with other Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies in combating firearms- related violence using ballistic imaging technology to compare images of ballistic evidence obtained from crime scenes and firearms. The mission of the program is to reduce firearms violence through aggressive targeting, investigation, and prosecution of shooters and their sources of crime guns. SCOPE Participation in this program is expressly restricted to the sharing of ballistic imaging of firearms data associated with crimes recovered by any law enforcement agency in the United States and international law enforcement partners who have entered into agreements with ATF to share ballistic data. ATE may work with our international law enforcement partners to search their networks in an effort to identify a gun in their data, base against a crime gun in ATF's NIBIN network. NIBIN systems may be used only for imaging of ballistic evidence and test fires of firearms illegally possessed, used in a crime, or suspected by law enforcement officials of having been used in a crime. Ballistics information and/or evidence from firearms taken into law enforcement custody through a Gun Buy Back Program, property damage crimes involving firearms, found or abandoned firearms, and domestic disturbances are permitted for entry in the NIBIN database.