One hundred percent of the law enforcement agencies in Tennessee that participate in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program contribute through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The state’s vigorous UCR Program and the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System (TIBRS) receive data from these agencies, then submits the data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for inclusion in NIBRS.

The FBI is planning to retire the traditional Summary Reporting System of crime statistics and transition to collecting crime data solely through NIBRS on January 1, 2021. Highly proactive states like Tennessee have been valuable leaders and partners with the FBI in this NIBRS transition effort, helping to prepare the U.S. law enforcement community for this important development. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) believes that NIBRS will be an advantage for the whole law enforcement community when NIBRS is nationally representative with consistent, comprehensive crime data, and senior leaders at the TBI have historically been strong supporters of NIBRS.