Classifying Assault/Battery Offenses Training

The Illinois-Uniform Crime Reporting (I-UCR) Program will be offering NIBRS training for agencies submitting data to the State NIBRS repository. The training will focus on accurately classifying offenses, specifically Assault/Battery Offenses, in NIBRS to ensure the consistency and comparability of data across the country. We will discuss the NIBRS code table and how Illinois statutes are translated into common UCR language that transcends the varying local and state laws. We will review the standardized offense definitions in NIBRS, which is essential to the maintenance of uniform and consistent data. There will be various training scenarios provided as well as a review of real incidents submitted by Illinois agencies in 2024 that were determined to have inaccurate offense classifications. Portions of a redacted police narrative will be shared and reviewed to assist agencies with the rules of uniform classification of offenses.

This free training will be offered via WebEx and will be approximately 60-90 minutes.

Dates and Times:

Tuesday, January 27 at 9:00am CST

Wednesday, January 28 at 2:00pm CST

If you would like to sign up for one of the classes, please complete the form using the following link:  https://forms.office.com/g/dVaUt35MgG

For questions or additional information, kindly contact ISP.UCR.Access@Illinois.gov

NIBRS Virtual Training

Greetings,

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Training Instructors are pleased to announce another session of our virtual training of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) open to all states on February 10 - 11, 2026, from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Eastern Time. 

This will be a free virtual NIBRS course on the Microsoft Teams platform and will be available to law enforcement personnel representing state, county, city, university and college, and tribal agencies. Training will include NIBRS Fundamentals, detailed instructions on classifying Group A offenses (Crimes Against Persons, Crimes Against Property, Crimes Against Society), Group B offenses, and practice scenarios. Data elements will not be included in this 2-day training.

Instruction will be a total of 8 hours over a two-day span with a 30-minute lunch each day. Participants must attend both days of training to receive a completion certificate. The tentative agenda for the course is as follows:   

• Tuesday, February 10:  NIBRS Fundamentals, Crimes Against Persons, Crimes Against Property
• Wednesday, February 11:  Crimes Against Property (cont’d), Crimes Against Society, and Group B Offenses   

REGISTRATION   

Registration will open at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 14, 2026, and will close at 11:45 p.m. on January 30 or when class reaches maximum capacity.   
Space is limited to 290 individual logins on a first-come, first-served basis.
An informational flyer with registration information is attached.
We will contact participants soon after registration closes to confirm registration.

We highly recommend that agencies share a single login/computer, when possible, to allow for more registrants.  If sharing a single login, only one person from a group will need to register and serve as the primary registrant. There is no FBI limit to the number of participants who may view the training from a shared login.  For example, multiple participants may view the training in a conference room on a shared screen and would only need to register one person.  All participants who attend both days of NIBRS training will receive a certificate of completion.   

The link for registration is:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HMQSL3Z

For additional information, kindly contact UCRregistration@fbi.gov. 

National Use of Force Data Collection Webinar

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Training Instructors are pleased to announce a virtual training of the National Use-of-Force Data Collection on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Central Time.  

This will be a free virtual course on the Microsoft Teams platform and will be available to law enforcement personnel representing federal, tribal, state, county, city, university, and college agencies.  Training will include a brief history and overview of the data collection and a live demonstration of the submission portal.

Registration is OPEN now and will close at 10:45 p.m. on January 20 or when the class reaches 290 participants. 

We recommend that agencies share a single login/computer, when possible, to allow for more registrants.  If sharing a single login, only one person from a group will need to register and serve as the primary registrant. There is no FBI limit to the number of participants who may view the training from a shared login.  For example, multiple participants may view the training in a conference room on a shared screen and would only need to register one person.  All participants who attend this training will receive a certificate of completion.    

The link for registration is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7ZK5G3N

For additional information, kindly contact ucrregistration@fbi.gov

NIBRS 2026 Deadlines

Dear partners,

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is requesting State Program Managers (SPMs), and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Systems Officers (CSOs) notify data contributors about upcoming deadlines for FY2026.

All contributors are encouraged to submit data in advance of established deadlines. The FBI’s UCR Program will be sending out correspondence to data submitters:

• Requesting verification of data showing significant increases or decreases over the previous submissions and/or verification of any high/low monthly offense counts.
• Identifying any data that have not been received.

Please remember to review your UCR dashboard and if you need assistance, please contact us at UCR@fbi.gov.

Agencies should continue to forward data if deadlines are not met for inclusion in future updates to the Crime Data Explorer. UCR SPMs and CJIS CSOs are asked to inform local agencies of the following important dates and deadlines as necessary:

• All data submitted to the FBI’s UCR Program by 10:59 p.m. central standard time (CST) on the 14th of every month will be published midmonth to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.
• Agencies have until 10:59 p.m. CST on January 30, 2026, to submit data for the “Law Enforcement Employee Data” release as of October 31, 2025.
• Agencies have until 10:59 p.m. CST on April 1, 2026, to report data to be included in the annual “Reported Crimes in the Nation” report. 

 Annual crime data releases

• “Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA), 2025” Special Report
• “Law Enforcement Employee Data, 2025”

• “Reported Crimes in the Nation (RCN)” which includes the following:
• “UCR Summary of Reported Crimes in the Nation, 2025”
• “Crime in the United States, 2025”
• “National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2025”
• “Hate Crime Statistics, 2025”
• “LEOKA, 2025” assault tables

We appreciate your partnership and again please feel free to reach out to the UCR Program if you need assistance. 

 Sincerely,

The FBI’s UCR Program