Query Body Parts Status

An agency which recovers a partial unidentified body should transmit an inquiry and in the body parts status field identify all body parts which have been and have not been recovered. An inquiry using body parts status requires that at least one body part be missing, but that not all are missing. Optionally sex and race can be used in the inquiry to limit the search.  The search can additionally be narrowed by specifying a state or area that originated the records. This query will only search the unidentified persons file.

NCIC compares the body parts status field code in the inquiry with the code of records on file that contain at least one N (for not recovered) in any of the 14 positions of the field, i.e., all records for incomplete bodies.

The response to an inquiry on the body parts status field contains all abbreviated records on file that pass the above checks. The abbreviated record will contain the following fields: BPS, SEX, RAC, EYB, EDD, DBF, ORI, and NIC.