ATF - Los Angelese Regional Crime Gun Center

Southern California Regional Crime Gun Center (RCGC)
550 N. Brand Boulevard
Suite 800
Glendale, CA 91203
Tel. (818) 265-2550
Fax. (818) 265-2551

What the RCGC will do:

  • Initially will operate 19 hours per day, five days a week (excluding Federal holidays). Telephonic access to ATF 24 hours a day.
  • Record and transfer daily firearms trace data to the ATF National Tracing Center
  • Disseminate investigative leads
  • Coordinate with the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area-Regional Intelligence Center to identify armed drug traffickers and their sources of crime guns
  • Answer questions about firearms
  • Respond to crime scenes as needed
  • Determine trends and identify sources for crime guns
  • Better enable authorities to interdict firearms destined for youths and juveniles

Every recovered crime gun is a piece of a larger puzzle. When fully tied together, the puzzle provides information about armed criminals and how they acquire crime guns.

If a priority of your organization is to deny criminals access to firearms and/or to imprison violent offenders, please consider including the Southern California Regional Crime Gun Center as part of you violence reduction strategy.

The entire concept depends on a collaborative partnership between your agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Certain information regarding recovered crime guns must be collected and analyzed.

Every recovered crime gun must be traced.

…The Regional Crime Gun Center has direct access to numerous databases and intelligence resources, as well as access via established relations with other intelligence units.

NIBIN logoDirect access includes the following:

  • eTrace
  • Firearms mapping
  • Oracle Discoverer
  • On-Line Lead
  • Firearms Tracing System Web
  • Suspect Gun Database
  • Stolen Firearms Database
  • Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS)
  • National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
  • National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN)

The Regional Crime Gun Center also has access to the resources of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area-Regional Intelligence Center and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Intelligence Division.

Once established, ATF personnel are available to provide law enforcement agencies with a tour and a demonstration of the capabilities of the Regional Crime Gun Center.

Should you decide to participate in this project, ATF can also provide assistance in customizing a series of protocols so your agency can make the most effective use of the capabilities of the Regional Crime Gun Center.

A telephone call to the RCGC is all that is needed in order to schedule a visit.

For further information, please contact the supervisory special agent, Southern California Regional Crime Gun Center at (818) 265-2550.

 

"One-stop shopping for information about crime guns and the criminal behind the gun."

Southern CA Regional Crime Gun Center

"The right people together with the right expertise and technology process critical information and turn it into action to reduce violent crime."

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