The goals of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) are to protect the general public and keep law enforcement safe. NCIC makes centralized crime data immediately available to the criminal justice agencies throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. Some of the entries made include wanted persons, missing persons, stolen vehicles, stolen guns, protection orders, and records of sexual offenders and their whereabouts. The success of the NCIC Unit depends on patrol officers, investigators, judges, prosecutors, corrections officers and other criminal justice agency officials using the information in day-to-day operations to assist in the recovery of persons and property.

As mandated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Unit performs compliance audits to identify record availability, accuracy and completeness. Persons and property that are queried in both NCIC and the state database are used to show probable cause in an arrest or recovery of property. The Unit strives for new and innovative ways to process this information and return it to the user within seconds of the initial query.

In 2007, the State Police NCIC Unit provided training to over 1,300 federal, state, county, and local law enforcement personnel.