The Murrieta Police Department is pleased to announce that on August 26, the department was officially awarded National Incident-Based Reporting System certification by the California Department of Justice. This is a major milestone for the department. To date, the Murrieta Police Department is one of only a handful of California agencies to receive certification in a state comprised of more than 500 law enforcement agencies.In 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed all states they were changing how crime statistics were being tracked and gave them five years to transition from Uniform Crime Reporting to the new NIBRS standard. In 2021, the Murrieta Police Department began submitting NIBRS data and after 16 months of arduous testing and troubleshooting, was finally recogniz
