Question about NCIC

[Caddop22]

Quite frequently here in Huntsville the NCIC system will go 10-7, allowing LEO's to only run local checks on people.

My question is, when this happens is it only in Huntsville or is it for instance the entire country?

I have wondered if it is maybe a regional issue when it happens or how exactly it works.

Has anyone else noticed this happening?

Thanks,

Ken

 

[trace1]

It does happen elsewhere from time to time...

 

[Stephen]

I know that when my agency has the issue it seems like a the surround departments that are near immediate have it but the next county may not have the issue.

 

[Steve]

Most of the time here in Alabama when NCIC goes 10-7, it is all of the State.
Occasionally only certain sections will go down but usually when one location goes 10-7
the rest of the system will follow soon after.

Steve
KD4LCY
KAF9087
ALDPS PCO (Retired)

 

[w8jjr]

really depends. It could be a router problem causing a state-wide problem, or a microwave link down on a county or system level. Every know and then it could be national wide when they have to do maintence or recover a backup. Most of the work gets done on midnights as to not effect most. If its down durning the day its problemly a hardware issue and not maitence.

 

[CyberGoth1440]

NCIC is "down" frequently here in Birmingham, with only the local files available.

 

[Pimpala03]

Sometimes when dispatchers say it's 10-7 (out of service) it could mean they are just logging on/off or in fact the whole service is down. NCIC and III are taken out of service about every 2 months or so from around 3 am to 6 am EST. This is so updating can be done to the system.

Sometimes my computer will go "10-7" when I get tired of running BS traffic.

 

[morganAL]

As others have stated, there are several causes to the outages. It can range from problems with the circuit at the phone co level, a server reboot, or the whole ACJIC system crashing. We used to see a lot of problems with the telco circuit but in the last 5 years that has pretty much gone away. I would say 98% of the outages we have seen are related to either maintainence at ACJIC or maintainence here.