As part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI ), the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) is a national computerized repository system of criminal justice data used by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Now under the direction of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) division, located in the city of Clarksburg, West Virginia, the NCIC provides North American forensic science departments with search information for such data involving convicted sex offenders, fingerprint impressions, and missing persons.

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