S.C. Code Regs. § § 73-30

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 10, October 25, 2024

Section 73-30 - Uniform Crime Reporting

A. Every law enforcement agency must send SLED a copy of each report made by any officer during the performance of his duties in responding to reported criminal violations within the jurisdiction of that agency. Reports must be sent to SLED regardless of the degree of seriousness of the reported criminal activity.

B. The reports must be recorded on standard forms approved by SLED, commonly referred to as incident reports.

C. Reports must include, to the maximum extent possible, details of all offenses investigated by officers, whether actual or unfounded, to include follow-up investigations, reports of property recovered, changes in the status of any case, and other similar comments. Sworn statements of witnesses need not be sent to SLED; however, information gathered from such statements should be transmitted to SLED if it changes or clarifies the status or classification of a prior report.

D. Every law enforcement agency must send SLED a copy of each arrest document made by any officer, jailor, or other official. Departments must record the personal descriptive data and criminal charges of each person who is placed under lawful arrest, regardless of whether that person is incarcerated, released on bail, or otherwise disposed of. Arrest documents must be completed on all persons placed under lawful arrest regardless of whether the case is ultimately prosecuted. Arrest documents must be completed on each person placed under lawful arrest regardless of the degree of seriousness of the offense committed.

E. Arrest documents must be of a standard type approved by SLED, commonly referred to as booking reports.

F. All copies of incident reports and booking reports must be forwarded to SLED on a regular and timely basis, but not less often than once weekly. Incident and booking reports made by any agency during any month must arrive at SLED no later than the fifth day of the following month.

G. SLED responsibilities include processing, analyzing, coding, and compiling all incident and booking reports received and making available to law enforcement and other governmental agencies whatever information is gathered from the reports within the limits of the reporting program. SLED is not prohibited from assigning any of these responsibilities to contributing or other agencies if deemed qualified by SLED procedures.

H. SLED responsibilities also include the proper classification and counting of all incident and booking reports. Classification and counting procedures must correspond insofar as is feasible to those generally accepted nationwide in all uniform crime reporting programs. These procedures are defined by the International Association of Chiefs of Police Committee on Uniform Crime Reports, the Uniform Crime Reports Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Uniform Crime Reports Section of SLED.

S.C. Code Regs. § 73-30

Amended by State Register Volume 25, Issue No. 9, eff September 28, 2001.