A suspicious activity report is a report of suspicious activity that may either be a terrorist act, a criminal act, or a non-criminal act considered a precursor to either a terrorist act or criminal act. A SAR may be filed by law enforcement, public safety personnel, owners of critical infrastructure or the general public. The report is the incident level event reported under the
National SAR Initiative, a joint project of the
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a United States federal executive departments, federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and a ...
and the
United States Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the Federal government of the United States, U.S. United States federal executive departments, federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the I ...
. It is run by the SAR Program Office in the Department of Justice. SARs are completed at the local, state or federal law enforcement level and shared with fusion centers who make the information available to local law enforcement agencies, United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Homeland Security the FBI, the Department of Defense and private partners. Fusion centers have been criticized by a U.S. Senate Committee which found that the fusion centers often produced "irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting".
[{{Cite web, url=http://documents.latimes.com/us-senate-report-fusion-centers/, title = U.S. Senate report on Fusion Centers, website=documents.latimes.com]
See also
*
Suspicious Activity Report
In financial regulation, a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) or Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) is a report made by a financial institution about suspicious or potentially suspicious activity. The criteria to decide when a report must be ma ...
(SAR)
*
TrapWire
Notes
National SAR Initiative Website
United States Department of Homeland Security