Section 6: Public Act 319 of 1968
UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING SYSTEM, ACT 319 of 1968
AN ACT to provide a uniform crime reporting system; to provide for the submitting of such report to
the department of state police; to require submission of the report by certain police agencies; to
require the reporting on wanted persons and stolen vehicles; to require the reporting of information
regarding certain persons and unidentified bodies of deceased persons; to prescribe certain powers
and duties of law enforcement agencies; and to vest the director of the department of state police with
certain authority. History: 1968, Act 319, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1968 ;-- Am. 1985, Act 204, Eff. Mar. 1,
1986
28.251 Uniform crime reports; duties of police departments to file, contents.
Sec. 1. The police department of each city or village, any duly constituted police department of a
township, and the sheriff's department of each county, once each month upon a date and form
prescribed and furnished by the director of the department of state police, shall forward to the
department of state police a crime report. Each reporting department shall report only on cases within
its jurisdiction and upon which it is making, or has made, the primary police investigation. The report
shall be called the uniform crime report and shall cover crimes reported and otherwise processed
during the month preceding the month of the report. It shall contain the number and nature of
offenses committed, the disposition of such offenses and such other information as the director of
state police shall specify relating to the method, frequency, cause and prevention of crime. Under no
circumstances shall the name of any person be reported. History: 1968, Act 319, Imd. Eff. July 3,
1968.
28.252 Compilation of monthly uniform crime reports; use.
Sec. 2. 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. History: 1968, Act
319, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1968.
28.253 Voluntary crime reports; inclusion in compilation.
Sec. 3. Any governmental police agency, not falling within the description of those required to submit
the monthly uniform crime report set forth in section 1, which desires to submit such a report, shall be
furnished with the proper forms by the department of state police. When a report is received by the
department of state police from a governmental police agency not required to make such report, the
information contained therein shall be included within the monthly compilation provided for in section
2.
History: 1968, Act 319, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1968.
28.254 Reports of wanted persons and stolen vehicles.
Sec. 4. The chief of police of each city or village and of each township having a police department,
and the sheriff of each county within this state, shall report to the department of state police, in a
manner prescribed by the department, all persons wanted by, and all vehicles stolen from, their
primary police jurisdictions. The report shall be made as soon as is practical after the investigating
department either ascertains that a vehicle is stolen or obtains a warrant for an individual's arrest or
determines that they have reasonable grounds to believe that the individual committed a crime. In no
case shall this time exceed 12 hours after the reporting agency determines that it has grounds to
believe that a vehicle was stolen or that the wanted person should be arrested. History: 1968, Act
319, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1968.