A. The department of public safety shall develop, operate and maintain a uniform crime reporting system and shall be the central repository for the collection, storage, retrieval and analysis of crime incident and arrest reports generated by all law enforcement agencies in this state. The system shall be operational as of January 1, 2008.

B. The department shall:

(1) compile statistical data and forward such data as required to the federal bureau of investigation or the appropriate department of justice agency in accordance with standards and procedures of the national system;

(2) provide forms, standards and procedures and related training to state and local law enforcement agencies as necessary for the agencies to report incident and arrest activity for inclusion in the statewide system;

(3) in conjunction with the New Mexico sentencing commission, annually publish a report on the nature and extent of crime in New Mexico and submit the report to the governor and to the legislature;

(4) maintain the privacy and security of information in accordance with applicable state and federal laws;

(5) provide the New Mexico sentencing commission access to the data collected and maintained by the department; and

(6) establish rules as necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

C. Every law enforcement agency in the state shall:

(1) submit crime incident reports to the department of public safety on forms or in the format prescribed by the department;

(2) submit any other crime incident information as may be required by the department of public safety; and

(3) use the unique code assigned to the crime from the master charge code table distributed by the New Mexico justice information sharing council for the automated fingerprint identification system and use uniform crime incident reporting as provided by the department for all incidents and arrests.

D. The annual report and other statistical data reports generated by the department shall be made available to state and local law enforcement agencies, the administrative office of the courts and the general public.

History: Laws 2007, ch. 37, § 1; 2019, ch. 192, § 3.

Cross references. — For duty of state police to establish and maintain complete systems for the identification of criminals, see 29-3-1 NMSA 1978.

For the public safety department, see 9-19-4 NMSA 1978.

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, required the department of public safety to share data with the New Mexico sentencing commission; in Subsection B, added Paragraph B(5); in Subsection C, Paragraph C(3), after "use the", deleted "state uniform statutory charge codes" and added "unique code assigned to the crime from the master charge code table distributed by the New Mexico justice information sharing council"; and in Subsection D, after "law enforcement agencies," added "the administrative office of the courts".