Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network (MCIN)
Description
The Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network (MCIN) program is envisioned as a coalition of criminal justice agencies that collaborates and coordinates tactics, resources, and intelligence through comprehensive data sharing, cross-jurisdictional partnerships, effective policies, and supporting technologies.
MCIN focuses on identifying, disrupting, and dismantling gangs and violent criminal networks involved in the distribution of illegal drugs, the use of firearms in crimes of violence, human trafficking, or other inherently violent criminal enterprises, through enforcement, prevention, intervention, and information sharing. MCIN seeks to reduce violent crime by facilitating the formation of information technology-enabled partnerships that lead to the improved investigation and prosecution of violent criminals and their networks.
This funding shall be used to improve intelligence infrastructure and support strategies for collecting information that lead to investigations that identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal networks, to employ subject matter experts trained to investigate such networks, and/or pay for expert prosecutors to prosecute these cases at the federal and state levels.
History
In December 2017, Governor Larry Hogan announced a series of initiatives to combat criminal gang enterprises and repeat violent offenders responsible for terrorizing Maryland citizens and participating in violent crime throughout the state.
The Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network (MCIN) is a criminal justice strategy, coordinated at the local, state, and federal levels targeting gangs, drug, firearms and human trafficking. MCIN is particularly focused on those criminal networks that are impacting multiple jurisdictions and accomplishes this by sharing information across borders. It is a key element of Maryland’s public safety strategy and provides the basis for data-driven decision making both operationally and for policy development.
Categories Funded
- Contractual Services
- Equipment
- Other
- Personnel
- Travel
Eligible Applicants
- Local Law Enforcement
- State Law Enforcement
- State's Attorney's Offices
Documents
Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA)
Additional Documents
- FY 27 MCIN NOFA TA Call Slides - PDF - 529.03 KB
- FY26 Managing Your MCIN-ODAC Award Slides - PDF - 453.82 KB
Dates
Projected NOFA Release Month
March
Projected Application Month
May