Blogs

On October 25, the ICITAP-Indonesia mission provided an update on its assistance to the Indonesian National Police (INP) Central Forensic Laboratory (Puslabfor) Quality Management Team (QMT). 

From October 14 to 19, over 120 ICITAP and international police delegates representing 17 countries participated in the dynamic annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference in Dallas, Texas. 

This is the Environmental Crimes Bulletin for October 2022.

The CFO Council will hold its next public meeting on November 3, 2022.

From October 3 to 8, 2022, ICITAP Forensics hosted a US Forensic Study Tour for representatives from the Costa Rica Judicial Investigations Organization (OIJ) Department of Forensic Sciences (DFS) Program Management Office. 

After years of preparation and refinement, the 2021 crime in the nation data release will report not only general trends in violent and property offenses across the nation, but detailed data about those offenses, from the types of weapons used in violent crimes to the value of losses in property offenses. More information—about demographics of the offender and victim and circumstances of the crime—will be available than ever before.

Today the Department is now releasing key excerpts of the strategic plan in Spanish and key exceprts in the other top languages spoken by the LEP general public in the United States: Spanish, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Vietnamese, Korean, and Tagalog. The Department continues to prioritize actions to help ensure language access is not a barrier to LEP individuals participation in Department priorities including access to a plan that guides our efforts across the Department as we continue to fulfill our responsibilities to the American people.

From September 19 to 29, 2022, ICITAP-Philippines delivered three 3-day iterations of Best Practices in High Security & Terrorist Detainee Prison Management training, to members of the Philippines Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) as well as leadership of the BJMP Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) Center and Directorate of Intelligence.

The Office of Information Policy has issued reporting deadlines for agency FOIA reports.  

The Office of Information Policy (OIP) has posted updates to its compilation of FOIA Exemption 3 resources.

From September 19 to 20, 2022, the ICITAP-Indonesia Criminal Investigation Development Project collaborated with the Office of Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) to provide the seventh in a series of regional TIP Workshops focusing on Victim Restitution and Assistance.