Master Name Index (MNI)

The Master Name Index (MNI) is a subject identification database that includes basic identifying information along with a detailed profile for each person who has been added to a report. Subjects include offenders, suspects, victims, witnesses, and related people who have interacted with an officer in the past and been included in a report.

When writing a report, you can search the database to add an existing person to your report rather than making a duplicate profile. This way, all reports associated with the same person are kept in one place, on a single citizen profile.

 

MNI in Axon Standards and Axon Records

Axon Records and Axon Standards have separate MNI databases; when a person is added to an Axon Records report and included in the Axon Records MNI database, they will NOT also appear in the Axon Standards MNI database. In other words, if a person has a profile in Axon Records, you will not be able to find them or any information from any Axon Records reports they have been associated with when creating Axon Standards events or searching in Axon Standards.

These separate databases help prevent the introduction of bias into an Axon Standards investigation. If a person with a past criminal record is involved in an Axon Standards event, their criminal record (as documented in Axon Records) is not displayed to the report author in Axon Standards.

You can import a person and their personal information (except for the incidents they are associated with) from Axon Records into Axon Standards. For more information see Create events from Axon Records.