Webinars

Our webinars, lead by subject matter experts and offered in English and Spanish, help you stay up-to-date with industry best-practices. Check out our schedule of upcoming webinars, or watch any of our broadcasts from the past year.

Developing a Preventive Crime Gun Strategy

Webinar Series | Developing A Crime Gun Intelligence Center for Long-Term Sustainability

Please join us on May 19, at 1 pm ET., as members of the Miami Police Department’s Crime Gun Intelligence Detail discuss “Developing A Crime Gun Intelligence Center For Long Term Sustainability.” Hear how the CGID team collaborates with ATF and other units within the police department to streamline their NIBIN processes. Learn how they developed and utilize a NIBIN database which has significantly reduced the time it takes to make link notifications to detectives.

Webinar Series | Elevating Community Engagement and Relationships to Reduce Gun Violence

This webinar is presented in collaboration with the Justice Clearinghouse and The National Police Foundation.

Webinar Series | The Wichita Crime Gun Intelligence Center: a Unique Law Enforcement University Partnership Approach

When implementing or enhancing an existing regional preventive crime gun strategy, partnerships are critical to the success of any initiative. In October, 2019 the Wichita Crime Gun Intelligence Center was launched, involving the first of its kind law enforcement-university partnership between the Wichita Police Department and Wichita State University (WSU).

Webinar Series | Preserving and Enhancing Your Violent Crime Reduction Program in the Era of “De-funding’’

This webinar emphasizes the core components necessary for an effective violent crime reduction strategy.

Webinar Series | Incorporating the Minimum Required Operating Standards Into Your Agency’s NIBIN Organizational Lifestyle

Whether initiating or enhancing a preventive crime gun strategy, the ATF National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) must be a cornerstone of the initiative.

Webinar Series | Making NIBIN an Organizational Lifestyle

Learn how you can turn “good enough” intentions into an organizational lifestyle that provides the best results for your preventive crime gun initiative.

Webinar Series | Building a Preventive Crime Gun Strategy

Learn about these 8 key components, but will also hear from representatives from two agencies on how they implemented successful regional initiatives using these components.

Webinar Series | Initiating or Enhancing Your Regional Preventive

Discover the single most important consideration for ensuring cross jurisdictional evidence is incorporated into your regional crime-gun strategy.

Webinar Series | Establishing a Crime Gun Intelligence Program Within Your Agency Region

Establishing a Crime Gun Intelligence Program.

Webinar Series | Making Gun Crime a Priority in Your Region – Enforcing the Laws on the Books

Making Gun Crime a Priority in Your Region.

Forensic Lab Crime Gun Intelligence Best Practices

Webinar Series | An Innovative Strategy for Managing Firearm Related Casework

This webinar discusses not only the concept of using regional ballistic networks to handle and manage casework innovatively but, also shows how this strategy has been effectively incorporated by one police agency to a great amount of success.

Webinar Series | Forensics at the Speed of Crime

How transformational forensics can expand the forensic firearm examiner’s toolbox so that relevant ballistics intelligence can be delivered within 24 to 72 hours of an incident.

Grant Writing (US)

Webinar Series | Writing Winning Grant Proposals For A Regional Preventative Crime Gun Strategy

Learn about every stage of writing successful grant proposals – from finding the right grant for your organization to writing elements, and gaining support along the way.

Webinar Series | Grant Writing Made Easy

Crime has a cost – both in what it costs society, but also in the dollars it takes to combat crime and bring the perpetrators to justice. One of the key areas law enforcement agencies and other justice-related organizations often seek funding for, is for the equipment and resources to identify, track, and build cases around gun-related crime.

Investigative & Intelligence Strategies

Webinar Series | Overlaying Digital Intelligence and Ballistics Technology to Enhance Investigations

This webinar will examine how information from each of these technologies can be turned into actionable intelligence and utilized by investigators to solve crime gun investigations.

Webinar Series | Social Network Analysis

Find out how NIBIN leads can be used to gain insight into how violent incidents can be connected through a common gun and how to link incident data to the individuals involved in those crimes.

Social Network Analysis

Join us on June 7 at 3 pm EST for our free Webinar presented in collaboration with The Justice Clearinghouse.

Webinar Series | Gun Crime Investigative Cycle – Bridging the Gaps

Gun Crime Investigative Cycle: Bridging the Gaps.

Prosecution Strategies Utilizing Crime Gun Intelligence

Webinar Series | NIBIN-Led Policing: a Prosecutor’s Perspective

Collaboration between police investigators, forensic experts, and prosecutors is a key contributor to successful firearm-related crime investigations. This webinar looks at how to maximize intelligence for both the investigation and prosecution of cases once investigative leads have been identified through the ATF National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN). Presenters: Marisa McKeown, Supervising Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara, CA and Ron Nichols, Nichols Forensic Science Consulting, 25+ years’ experience as a firearm and toolmark examiner.

Webinar Series | Developing a Prosecution Strategy Crime Gun

Brian Gray from the Schenectady County District Attorney's Office and Chief Will Morris from the East Baton Rouge District Attorney's Office Crime Strategies Unit described how they use ballistics intelligence to build their cases.