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al Wet ore wees ea lg ae wtotel automatic finverprint identification syvs- tem. As of the end of Fiseal 1975, more than one million first offender records bud been wutomated, The procurement of FINDER, the wutonnted fin- gerprint Scanner syslein, 1S nearing completion, and the first production model of five such sys- tems is-scheduled for delivery in November, 1975, The remaining four production model systems will be delivered at three-month intervals follow- ing the first delivery. COMPUTER SYSTEMS DIVISION The Computer Systems Division provides the FBI and law enforcement wgencies thronghout the Nation with #2 broad range of data processing services. The National Crime Infarmation Center (NCIC), 4 prime example of these services, has added an unparalleled dimension to this Nation's efforts to prevent and detect crime. Utilizing a sophisticated telecommunications network involving S¢ NCIC control terminals, this system makes more than 4.9 million records te- lating to wanted persons and stolen properly instantaneously uccessible to FBI field offices and other duly constitured criminal justice agen- cies in the United States, ta the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Police of the Common- wealth of Puerto Rico. In addition, more than 600,000 Computerized Criminal History (CCH) records are maintained in the NCIC computer for criminal justice use. NCIC member agencies are jinked for the Common purpose of combating crime, Daily, NCIC handles an uverzge of more than 171,500 trans- 24 Rot AE TS CS Te LAF Pa eaten Men ae uCtions involving wanted persons (fugitives), stolen properly, and criminal history records, The number of transactions during June, 1975, increased more thin 15 percent over the ame month in 1974. Positive responses, ot “‘hits,”' on wanted persons and stolen property inguiries averazed approximately 900 per day during Fiscal 1975. ; The FBI’s unnual Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) publication, ‘Crime in the United States," continues to be one of the most widely used documents published by the Federal Government. The detailed crime data which it coutains is used extensively by local, state, and Federal officials for pinning, budgeting, disbursement of Federal rants, legishiwion, and analysis of the crime problem. : . As Fiscal 1973 ended, 31 states had devel- oped their own UCR programs, Eventually, these programs will enhance the completeness and accuracy of dara representing the crime problem in the United States. ; The Uniform Crime Reporting Program also includes reports on the killing of law enforcement officers, assaults on Federal officers, and bomb- ings, which provide valuable assistance in train- ine law enforcement officers. In the investigative field, more use wus made of the FBI's computers during Fiscul 1975 than in’ uny previous fiscal year, These computers were utilized in 20 investigative cuses, includ- ing antitrust, bankruptcy, bank fraud and embez- ziement, fraud uuainst the Government, theft of Government property, and interstate rransportation of stolen property violations. So ge ee ei Pe ee ees