Veronique F. Delattre, D.D.S., right, of the UT Dental Branch, received a medallion and certificate in honor of her volunteer work in forensic dentistry from FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division Assistant Director Thomas E. Bush III, left, at an awards ceremony in Clarksburg, W.Va.
Veronique F. Delattre, D.D.S., has been awarded a 2008 FBI Assistant Director’s Award for Exceptional Public Service in recognition of her exemplary performance in conjunction with the National Dental Image Repository (NDIR).
At The University of Texas Dental Branch, Delattre is director of quality assurance and risk management and associate professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials. FBI Assistant Director Thomas E. Bush III of the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division presented Delattre with a medallion and certificate at a recent awards ceremony at the FBI’s CJIS Division headquarters in Clarksburg, W.Va.
Delattre is a charter member of the National Dental Image Repository Review Panel and is one of 22 active members of the NDIR. Since 1996 she has performed dental autopsies on numerous unidentified individuals throughout the state, coded missing persons’ and unidentified persons’ dental records, digitized dental information and submitted records to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) on behalf of several Texas agencies.
The dental image repository was established by the FBI’s CJIS Division in 2006 as a Web-accessible site for law enforcement agencies to house missing and unidentified persons’ dental images and information in conjunction with the crime information center’s database. The repository serves as a permanent database of dental records, radiographs and images to supplement information entered into the crime information center’s database. This online database makes it easier for agencies that have potential NCIC matches to their missing/unidentified persons to access the information.
NDIR Review Panel members are forensic dental professionals throughout the U.S. who have received specialized training and annual updates from the FBI in the NCIC and NDIR systems and who volunteer their time and expertise to review the dental coding of NCIC missing and unidentified persons’ records. The volunteers review and make comments regarding coding accuracy to correct inaccurate records in the system prior to posting the supplemental dental images in the NDIR on Law Enforcement Online.
Additionally, these individuals have championed the use of the crime information center’s dental coding system in their home states through liaison with the law enforcement community and medical examiner agencies.
Date Posted: 07/08/2008
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