Section 1244.30  Reporting Use of Force to the Department

a)         All Illinois law enforcement agencies shall submit to the ISP on a monthly basis a report on Use of Force, in a form and manner prescribed by ISP, utilizing the Illinois National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Repository.  The report shall include any action that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of a person or the discharge of a firearm at or in the direction of a person.

b)         For the purpose of this data collection, the definition of serious bodily injury is based, in part, on Title 18 United States Code, Section 2246 (4): The term "'serious bodily injury' means bodily injury that involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, protracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty."

c)         The Use of Force reports submitted by all Illinois law enforcement agencies to the ISP shall include information required in the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Information Technology, "National Use-of-Force Data Collection:  Flat File and Bulk Load, Technical Specifications"; Version 4.5, dated August 27, 2019.

d)         In the event an Illinois law enforcement agency has no Use of Force incidents to report in a given month, the agency shall submit a zero report for that particular month by the 15th day of the following month.

e)         The ISP shall submit such reports on a monthly basis to the FBI National Use of Force Database in the form and manner prescribed by FBI.