COLORADO BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Colorado Department of Public Safety
Colorado ViCAP:
Violent
Criminal Apprehension Program
| CLEIN | ViCAP | Major Crimes | Gaming | Intelligence |
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ViCAP doesn't retire, and ViCAP doesn't forget. Therefore it serves as the institutional memory during personnel turnover. |
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| Contacts: | Audrey Simkins |
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| Phone Number: | 303-239-5764 |
| Fax Number: | 303-239-5788 |
| Mailing Address: | 710 Kipling Street, Suite 200 Denver, CO 80215 |
| E-Mail Address: | vicap@cdps.state.co.us |
Mission ViCAP's mission is to facilitate cooperation, communication and coordination among law enforcement agencies and provide support in their efforts to investigate, identify, track, apprehend, and prosecute violent serial offenders.
Function and Objectives: Developed by the FBI, ViCAP is a state of the art behavior-based crime analysis and investigative tool which has been significantly redesigned and structured to address violent crime problems impacting law enforcement agencies. It is available free of charge to any law enforcement agency willing to become a part of the system. ViCAP will enable law enforcement agencies to collect, collate and analyze their own violent crime information on a local level, and to assist in identifying similar cases on a regional, state, or national basis.
This system consists of a computerized ViCAP Crime Analysis Report Form with user-friendly computer software designed for application on a pentium based computer equipped with a CD drive and Windows 95, 98, Windows NT/2000 or Windows XP and internet accessibility for immediate upload to the state ViCAP system. It enhances crime analysis for specific violent crimes, including solved and unsolved homicides, missing persons, unidentified dead persons, sex assaults, etc.
Investigative, administrative and behavior-oriented data concerning a specific violent crime is entered into the ViCAP database. Analysts can query both state and federal databases to find information with the combination or sequence of data required by the requesting agency.
Since the Colorado database allows for broader submission criteria than the FBI database, the collected information will be securely downloaded to the FBI ViCAP program via special ViCAP network capability of the Law Enforcement Officers (LEO) online programs.
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ADMINISTRATIVE CAPABILITIES:
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COLORADO ViCAP SUBMISSION CRITERIA ** These criteria are based on the original charge for the offender** Article 3 - Offenses Against the Person
Article 4 - Offenses Against Property
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ViCAP - A TIMELESS TOOLThe ViCAP database is effective in solving crimes from the present and the past. Law enforcement may enter cases that occurred in 2000, the 1980s or even the 1950s; any case that law enforcement feels ViCAP can assist in may be offered. ViCAP can to be used to solve crimes from the past. In 1989 Pennsylvania investigators entered a cold case started in 1951 into the ViCAP database. In this case, a man was found guilty of murdering a young girl. Not long after, investigators from Illinois entered an unsolved case from 1957, in which an 8 year old girl was murdered. ViCAP analysts noticed similarities in the two cases. Due to these similarities and other related evidence, detectives in Illinois were able to solve a crime that occurred almost 40 years prior. Recently (May 2004), ViCAP analysts matched three Florida missing persons to unidentified dead bodies based on physical descriptions and verified by DNA analysis.
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Contact CBI to obtain your free ViCAP software and begin participating in this beneficial program.
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Article 6 - Offenses Involving Family Relations
Article 7 - Offenses Relating to Morals
Article 9 - Offenses Against Public Peace, Order and Decency
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