Federal and local officials announce plans to intensify efforts to catalogue firearms throughout the region and appoint two special prosecutors.
Two special federal prosecutors are being hired and efforts to identify and catalogue guns used in crimes will be intensified under a joint federal and local plan announced Thursday to help combat the rise of gun violence in central Ohio.
"Everything we do begins and ends with that — working to make the public safer," Dettelbach, who was appointed through a bipartisan effort, said."That means working side by side with our partners all throughout every level of government."from record-setting levels in 2021, Ginther said more work was needed to aggressively track and prosecute criminals using illegal firearms. Last year, the city seized over 3,300 illegal firearms, averaging about nine a day.
NIBIN is a national database of digital images of spent bullets and cartridge cases that were found at crime scenes or test-fired from confiscated weapons. The ATF manages the system and provides the equipment to crime labs around the country. . Police said last July that the lab was so successful that Columbus was named an"ATF correlation center," which will allow city police to process NIBIN leads faster.
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