GREENUP —
Sanctions leveled against the Greenup County E-911 Center in 2010, due to errors in data entered in a national database, have been officially lifted.
Last month, the Kentucky State Police lifted the sanctions after finding a zero percent serious error rate during the agency’s 2012 Criminal Justice Information System compliance audit. The state average error rate for such audits is 2.12 percent.
The Greenup E-911 Center was given B level sanctions following an audit in October 2009 that found a 26 percent serious error rate in data entries, in addition to other areas of non-compliance with Law Enforcement Information Network of Kentucky and National Crime Information Center guidelines.
LINK and NCIC are computerized indexes of criminal justice information including missing or wanted persons, sex offenders and stolen property including vehicles, boats and firearms. NCIC is the FBI’s national centralized information system, which state systems like LINK report into and is used by law enforcement agencies across the country.
“Your agency has not only resolved your original issues, but has implemented several additional programs that have placed your agency above the state average,” wrote Lt. Colonel Brad Bates, the state CJIS coordinator, in a letter to E-911 board chairman Bellefonte Police Chief Mark Ballard informing of the decision to lift the sanctions.
“As a result of these improvements, work effort and willingness to work with the CJIS staff to improve your agency, I am pleased to remove all sanctions,” Bates wrote.
While under sanctions, which were dropped to level C sanctions in September 2010, Greenup E-911 underwent numerous compliance audits each year by the KSP, which oversees the state system, said E-911 director Buford Hurley.
Hurley, who joined the agency in 2010 following the initiation of sanctions, said a non-sanctioned center would typically be audited once every three years compared to the bi-annual auditing Greenup has endured for the last two years.
He credited his staff for turning things around. “The employees have to buy in to make it work properly and they all did. All the employees bought into what we were doing. They knew we were sanctioned and they wanted to get out from underneath it,” he said.
He said the agency began performing in-house audits on 10 records entered into the crime database each month. “That is one thing we’re doing to try to be more efficient and making sure our records are correct,” he said.
“The sanctions came from poor quality of work and where it is critical to law enforcement it had to be corrected,” Hurley said. He said an error can result in things like wrongful arrest or seizure of property that is not stolen.
“We are very very glad to be away from those (sanctions),” he added. “It allows us to breath easier, but we’re going to continue doing quality of work and we’re still going to implement new ideas.”
“I’m just proud of Buford and the entire staff at the E-911 center. They had a pretty rough time there for a few years and they turned it around and made it a showplace now,” said Greenup County Judge-Executive Bobby Carpenter, announcing the lifting of sanctions on Tuesday.
“It’s just great to have it behind us,” added Sheriff Keith Cooper, a member of the E-911 board of directors.
CARRIE STAMBAUGH can be reached at cstambaugh@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2653.
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