Enter Supplemental Data

The supplemental record can best be defined as additional information that an agency wishes to add to a previously established record.  While both supplement and modify transactions may be used to add information to an already established missing person record; the supplement transaction is used to add information to a field that already has information in it.  The modify transaction may be used to add information to a record when a field was left empty on the original entry transaction.

A supplementary record can only be added by the ORI that entered the warrant. Only the following fields can be supplemented:

•      date of birth,

•      scars, marks, tattoos and other characteristics,

•      social security number,

•      miscellaneous number,

•      driver's license number,

•      alias name (monikers may be entered as alias last names, leaving first name field blank, for gang/terrorist members only),

•      license plate numbers, vehicle identification number, year, make, model, style and color (Gang/ Terrorist Member only),

•      identifying dress, tattoos, hand signals and graffiti (Gang/Terrorist Organization only, Primary ORI only),

•      dental information (Missing/Unidentified Persons only)

Limits exist as to how much supplemental information may be added to a record. A maximum of 99 alias names may be added to a Warrant/Wanted or Missing Person Record.  A maximum of 9 additional identifiers can be added to other fields listed.  The exception being on the Missing/Unidentified Person Files, where 19 additional scars, marks, tattoos and other characteristics may be supplemented.

All rules relating to data items for original entry also apply to entry of supplemental data.

To supplement a record it must be identified by system identification number, case number, and name. Name must be exactly the same as it appears on the original entry, including spelling.  These data items are used to identify the record to be supplemented.