Terms Used In Michigan Laws 28.252

  • Department: means the department of state police. See Michigan Laws 28.258
  • Law enforcement agency: means the department, a police agency of a city, village, or township, a sheriff's department, or any other governmental law enforcement agency in this state. See Michigan Laws 28.258
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
   Upon receipt of the monthly uniform crime reports from the reporting agencies, the department of state police shall prepare a statewide compilation of the statistics contained therein and the resulting statistical compilation shall be available to any governmental law enforcement agency in the state, the judiciary committees of the Michigan state senate and the Michigan state house of representatives, and the federal bureau of investigation, upon request. The statistics made available through the uniform crime report shall be used for the purpose of studying the causes, trends and effects of crime in this state and for intelligence upon which to base a more sound program of crime detection and prevention and the apprehension of criminals.