National Information Exchange Program

Information sharing is both formal and informal. The National Information Exchange Model focuses on the mechanism of sharing data, an important aspect of future public safety and homeland security endeavors. We are not in very good shape as a nation in our formal information sharing infrastructure. More about that tomorrow!

"NIEM, the National Information Exchange Model, is a partnership of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. It is designed to develop, disseminate and support enterprise-wide information exchange standards and processes that can enable jurisdictions to effectively share critical information in emergency situations, as well as support the day-to-day operations of agencies throughout the nation."

Interagency Information Sharing: The National Information Exchange Model By Michael Haslip, Chief of Police, Blaine, Washington, and Paul Wormeli, Chairman, Communications and Outreach Committee, National Information Exchange Model, Ashburn, Virginia. From The Police Chief, vol. 74, no. 4, April 2007.

X(ML) Marks the Spot: A data-sharing model is already simplifying the exchange of law enforcement files, but the ultimate goal is to ease such exchanges governmentwide.
By Susan M. Menke in FedTech online

Paul Wormeli is chairman of the NIEM Communications and Outreach Committee and executive director of the IJIS Institute.

In 2003, I met Paul Wormeli on an airplane - in fact, he was sitting in the same row as me! I was in the window seat and he was in the aisle seat. In between us sat a gentleman from the Bureau of Indian Affairs - he and I were discussing crime analysis when Paul politely interrupted to tell me he had written a book (now unavailable) on crime analysis in the 70s when he administered the Law Enforcement Assistance Program grants that were key to the start of formalized crime analysis in the United States!!!!