A State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is a state-level detective agency in the United States. They are plainclothes agencies which usually investigate both criminal and civil cases involving the state and/or multiple jurisdictions. They also provide technical support to local agencies in the form of laboratory or record services.
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Germany
In Germany, the state bureau of investigation are called Landeskriminalamt.
USA
In the United States of America, it is the state's equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The SBIs investigate all manner of cases assigned to them by their state's laws and usually report to the State's Attorney General, and in some cases to the state's Governor.
SBIs exist either independently or within a Department of Public Safety (which is an umbrella agency coordinating and/or controlling the various state level law enforcement agencies) or a State Police force (which is a general law enforcement agency).
See also
Generic topics
Specific state forces
- Alabama Department of Public Safety - Alabama Bureau of Investigation
- Alaska State Troopers - Alaska Bureau of Investigation (ABI)
- Arizona Department of Public Safety - Arizona Criminal Investigation Division
- Arkansas State Police - Criminal Investigation Division
- California
- Office of the Attorney General - Bureau of Investigation & Intelligence [1]
- California Highway Patrol - CHiP Investigations
- Connecticut State Police - Bureau of Criminal Investigations
- Delaware State Police
- Criminal Investigations Units
- Special Investigations Section
- Florida
- Georgia Bureau of Investigation
- Hawaii Department of Public Safety - Hawaii Sheriff's Office
- Idaho State Police - Investigation Division
- Illinois State Police - Illinois Bureau of Investigation (merged into the State Police Operations Division in the 1970s)
- Indiana State Police - Criminal Investigation Division
- Kansas Office of Attorney General - Kansas Bureau of Investigation
- Kentucky Office of the Attorney General - Kentucky Department of Criminal Investigation
- Minnesota Department of Public Safety Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension [2]
- Nebraska State Patrol - Investigative Services
- New Jersey
- New Jersey State Detectives
- New Jersey State Police - Division of Criminal Investigation
- New Mexico State Police - Special Investigations Division
- New York
- New York State Police - Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI).
- New York State Park Police
- North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
- North Dakota Office of the Attorney General - North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigations (Attorney General's website)
- Ohio Attorney General - Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
- Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation an independent agency
- Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General - Bureau of Criminal Investigations
- Pennsylvania State Police - Bureau of Criminal Investigation
- Rhode Island State Police - Detective Bureau
- South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) - an independent agency
- Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - an independent agency
- Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Rangers
- Virginia State Police - Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
- Wisconsin DOJ's Division of Criminal Investigation
References
- ^ http://ag.ca.gov/cbi/ accessed 26 Apr 2009
- ^ (official website)
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