DPS Crime Records
Update
TCJIUG
Corpus Christi
May 2, 2014
Crime Records Overview
• Technical Updates (TU)
• Program Update (PU)
• New Initiatives (NI)
• Dave’s Words of Wisdom (WWDD)
TU – Windows XP
Windows XP reached end of life (EOL) for maintenance support on
April 8, 2014, prompting a number of inquiries to the CJIS
Division and State Representatives as to whether continued use of
Windows XP is feasible. The CJIS Security Policy (CSP) states
that the communities are required to keep the systems
patched. However, without maintenance support, Windows XP
users will no longer be compliant, and more importantly, their own
enterprise and any connected enterprises with which they share a
trust relationship is vulnerable. An inability to patch means the
system’s well-publicized vulnerabilities become exploitable and the
risk to enterprise services and infrastructure is therefore elevated.
TU – Windows XP
As with any audit discovery, the auditors will work with the
agency to determine what plan of action and milestones the agency
has in place to meet requirements. Those plans will be presented
to the Compliance and Evaluation Subcommittee at the first
subcommittee meeting subsequent to the audit’s final report. The
subcommittee will take whatever action deemed appropriate to the
circumstance.
With the exception of contracted channeling agencies which have a
contractual obligation to remain compliant, the FBI CJIS Division
has no intention to refuse submissions from current XP users and
is relying on defense-in-depth to mitigate the risk to its own
enterprise. To reiterate,
TU – Omnixx 5
• Security issues because of need to use older
version of Java.
– DPS is currently testing Omnixx version 5, which
will obviate the Java security concern
– Target date for completion of testing is 5/30/14
– Version rollout will follow shortly after successful
testing.
TU – Mobile ID / RISC
TU – Mobile ID / RISC
FAP 10 FNIR = 3.272% (96.4)
FAP 30 FNIR = 1.616% (98.4)
TU – Latent Palms Enrollment
Current Texas
palm enrollment –
1,297,980
FBI accepting
palm prints as
long as they meet
requirements for
entry - full palm
with distals.
TU - Searching Palms
• Who is searching the palm database?
– Currently, only NEC latent terminals can
search the palm database (43 sites)
– Working with FBI on a Universal Latent
Workstation (ULW) upgrade to include ability
to search palms using Type 9 minutia records.
Currently 38 Texas agencies utilize the ULW
platform to search latent fingers on the DPS
and FBI AFIS’.
– Current unsolved latent palm entries – 21,733
TU – NGI
• EBTS 10.0 – New services provided by the FBI
Next Generation Identification project (NGI) will
necessitate users to adopt Electronic Biometric
Transmission Specification (EBTS) version 10.
• Transition from FNU to UCN – FBI will move
away from using the FBI Number (FNU) and will
start utilizing the Universal Control Number
(UCN). UCNs will be assigned to criminal and
civil identities as well as other biometric
instances (latent enrollees).
PU – N-DEx
Probabilistic Name Matching: A probabilistic name matching (PNM) capability will be implemented to
improve the recall and precision of name searches. PNM is distinguished from traditional approaches by its
emphasis on predicting and matching likely intended names rather than matching the actual observed names.
Entity Extraction: A capability for identifying and extracting People and Vehicle entity types from
unstructured, narrative content within records will be introduced. Without duplication from structured content,
this capability will make extracted entities available for correlation.
Suggested Searches: A query paraphrasing capability will be incorporated into the Simple Search feature
which will produce a list of paraphrases of a user's original query. The user may select a paraphrase for use
as a new query. This alternative, semantically equivalent re-phrasing of the original query could potentially be
more productive.
Non-Obvious Relationship Detection via Topics: Autonomy’s Document Clustering/Concept Search
capability will be leveraged to filter search results based on topic clusters occurring in the search result
records in order to improve investigative efficiency.
Link Visualization Upgrade: Tom Sawyer Software will review and tune the current link visualization and
analysis interface and upgrade the version utilized by N-DEx. The new version will include software upgrades
and “User Experience-based” refinements customized for N-DEx (Link Analysis and Link Visualization).
PU – NIBRS / TxGang
• NCSx – The FBI and the Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS) are launching the National Crime
Statistics Exchange (NCSx). NCSx is targeting
a representative sampling of US LEAs for
deployment of NIBRS.
• TxGang – Texas gang member data is now
being uploaded to NCIC. Records are not
searchable via QGM transaction but are
returned on a QW.
NI LPR
DEA
Local LE
DPS
Internet
LPR harvest data
NVLS
NICB
TCIC
Private Party LPR
data
DHS LPR data
Inbound
Proposed flow
for
implementation
of
of the
Texas LPR
Strategy
Vehicle of Interest file
TCIC – hourly
NCIC – every 12 hours
Receives LPR
data from
field:
LP
Date
Time
Location
Hyperlink
Tx LPR Data
Wanted
RQ
NLETS
Stolen
Outbound
SOR
Provides
Vehicle of
Interest (VOI)
files from
TCIC / NCIC
TLETS
NCIC
DPS LPR FTP Server
TLETS Network
RQ transaction
NI - LPR
Developing a Privacy Impact Assessment for the Texas LPR
system.
• Establishing MOUs with local LE to enable LPR data
sharing.
• Establishing a DPS repository within TCIC for LPR index
data.
• Developing and publishing a standard LPR interface
document for contributors to use when sending data to the
LPR index.
• Developing and publishing a standard for the
communication methodology to use when sending data to
the LPR index.
•
NI - NICS
NICS will be made available to
assist law enforcement
agencies conducting
background checks when
disposing of seized or
confiscated firearms in their
agency’s possession. Access
authority should be finalized
later this summer.
Various New Initiatives
• Rapid DNA
• Iris
• Fingerprint capture during DL process
• Facial Recognition
• Latent Access to IDENT
Questions
Any
Contact Info
Mike Lesko
Deputy Assistant Director
Law Enforcement Services Division
Crime Records Service
Texas DPS
mike.lesko@dps.texas.gov
512 424-2524