Director’s Community Leadership Award Presented to the Automated Regional Justice Information Systems

The San Diego FBI bestowed one of its most prestigious awards, the Director’s Community Leadership Award, to the Automated Regional Justice Information Systems (ARJIS) program of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG). The Automated Regional Justice Information Systems (ARJIS) uniquely contributes to both the law enforcement community and the public at large through its linked databases, crime analysis, and public education.

ARJIS’ criminal justice informational technology network is utilized by 71 local, state, and federal agencies in the San Diego region. ARJIS provides the San Diego law enforcement community with information used to solve crimes, combat terrorism, link investigations, and protect the public. The ARJISNet secure Intranet contains data on the region’s crime cases, arrests, field interviews, stolen property, accident reports, booking photos, traffic tickets, pawn slips, officer notifications, gang information, crime statistics, and more.

ARJIS integrates over 2,500 workstations throughout the 4,265 square miles of San Diego County. There are over 11,500 law enforcement users generating over 161,000 transactions per month. In 2006, ARJIS was the first system in California that offered driver’s license photos designed specifically for wireless access.

ARJIS and the San Diego law enforcement community were selected by the Department of Justice to be among the first in the nation to participate in the R-DEx Project. ARJIS is also participating in the OneDOJ program goal of linking regional databases to a nationwide network.

Beginning in 2003, ARJIS pioneered a secure wireless ability for officers in the field to access its databases. This was a giant leap forward in officer effectiveness and safety. With the use of the PDAs, officers and agents are able to conduct investigations on the street pursuing leads and immediately checking databases, instead of waiting to return to office terminals. For the FBI, this innovative wireless program has most successfully integrated with the SOG teams and JTTF members. Agents have direct access to NCIC, CLETS, DMV, and local records (COPLINK) that were previously only available to the agents hours or days after a field investigation had taken place.

ARJIS provides the public with regional crime statistics, quarterly crime reports, crime maps, and the Megan’s Law sex offender map, all accessible via the Internet. ARJIS is a unique and innovative organization that demonstrates outstanding contributions towards prevention, investigation, community awareness, and research into the crime issues of the San Diego region.

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