Usually long enough to run NCIC III and see if you have a NIC# or an FBI# that you have been in the system for whatever, prints/priors ect.  (all about thirty minutes if that).

I would assume that something simple like a previous job/pistol permit application which requires a run through NCIC would get you a number as well.

Fair Chance, if one fails an FBI polygraph and said individual’s name is run through NCIC during a subsequent application process with a local agency, would the hit return show specific info that a polygraph had been failed or would it simply say that the person had been printed and processed in the past by the FBI?

anxietyguy wrote on Feb 13^th, 2005 at 4:17pm:


You are correct,  if you are printed for let's say a job application for another agency, you fail the poly.  You go to another agency and apply they do your background and run you NCIC for 29's local or all, you come back negative but with a FBI# or NIC#.  All that tells them is there is something else there but they don't know what it is.  Could be that misdemeanor from the early 80's in college or that felony when you burglarized that store last year.  The agency runs the NCIC which gives the reason you have a # such as Agency xyz took your prints and a request two years ago (kind of like whose been looking at your credit report).  They can contact agency XYZ with further investigation and find out why they ran your III and why they printed you as it would not say on the III itself, unless it was a crime (felony or misdemeanor)   

Keep in mind this is in theory and does require leg work on the BI's part but if you said you have never been with another agency (or applied) and they find out that you have been printed with another agency they are going to look into it and check your integrity.

forgot to mention..poly passed and medical..and BI knows life story...no omissions.

Alice