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Criminal Justice Services

The FBI's Criminal Justice Services program supports federal, state, and local law enforcement efforts. It conducts fingerprint, DNA, and handgun background checks, and publishes national crime statistics. Some services are the only ones of their type in the country.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program is designed to make a unique contribution. The use of biometric information and criminal history records supports both criminal and civil enforcement activities.
  • Timely and credible performance information, such as speed and accuracy of fingerprint checks, is collected.
  • Independent evaluations of program performance are not conducted, and the program needs to improve the link between funding requests and program performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing a comprehensive measure for the forensic services program.

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