National Ballistics Intelligence Service
UK intelligence service for firearm-related criminality
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Formed | 2008 |
Headquarters | Birmingham , England, United Kingdom |
Website | nabis.police.uk |
The National Ballistics Intelligence Service , or NABIS , is a British intelligence service dedicated to managing and providing detailed information regarding firearm-related criminality . The service aims to use its database to store ballistics information about police cases involving firearms, and consequently maintain it for future use and reference. [1] The service operates four facilities to test and analyse firearms evidence to help link it with other cases. [2] These are based in Birmingham , London and Manchester . [3]
The service was officially launched on 1 April 2008 [4] and can be roughly compared to the Integrated Ballistics Identification System operating in the United States.
Four regional forensic hubs operate within four host forces/organisations: Greater Manchester Police (GMP), West Midlands Police (WMP), Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Glasgow unit of SPA Forensic Services. [5] The staff are around 40 in number. [6]
See also
References
- ↑ Markham, Matt (November 2017). "The role of NABIS" (PDF) . police.uk .
- ↑ "National Ballistics Intelligence Program" . west-midlands.police.uk . Retrieved 12 October 2019 .
- ↑ "Hubs" . National Ballistics Intelligence Service. Archived from the original on 11 April 2009 . Retrieved 13 April 2009 .
- ↑ "GNN - Government News Network" . gnn.gov.uk . Retrieved 12 October 2019 .
- ↑ "About Us" . NBIS . Retrieved 21 January 2017 .
- ↑ "Tracking firearms" . The Economist . 3 October 2013 . Retrieved 22 June 2018 .
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