Defense Criminal Investigative Service
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| Defense Criminal Investigative Service | |
| Abbreviation | DCIS |
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| Badge of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service. | |
| Mission statement | Protect America's Warfighters by conducting investigations in support of crucial National Defense priorities. |
| Agency Overview | |
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| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional Structure | |
| Federal agency | United States |
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| Operational Structure | |
| Agency executive | Sharon E. Woods, Director |
| Parent agency | Office of Inspector General, United States Department of Defense |
| Website | |
| http://www.dodig.mil/INV/DCIS/ | |
The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) is the criminal investigative arm of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
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[edit] Mission
The mission of the DCIS is to "protect America's Warfighters" by conducting investigations in support of crucial National Defense priorities.
[edit] Agents and investigators
DCIS criminal investigators are Special Agents with full federal law enforcement authority; they carry firearms, investigate violations of U.S. law, execute search and arrest warrants, serve subpoenas, etc. DCIS Special Agents also investigate offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
[edit] Activities
The DoD Inspector General is tasked by statute to "initiate, conduct, and supervise such … investigations in the Department of Defense (including the military departments) as the Inspector General considers appropriate" (IG Act §8(c)(2)) and to "give particular regard to the activities of the internal . . investigative units of the military departments with a view toward avoiding duplication and insuring effective coordination and cooperation" (IG Act §8(c)(9)).
The DCIS devotes investigative resources to a number of investigative programs including:
- Terrorism
- Product Substitution (selling counterfeit or inferior parts to the DoD)
- Other contract fraud
- Cyber Crimes/Computer Intrusion
- Technology Transfers (illegal export of defense technology)
- Other Categories of Fraud (e.g., Bribery, kickbacks, Public Corruption and Major Thefts)
[edit] See also
[edit] JAG Corps
[edit] Federal law enforcement
[edit] Sister UCMJ military law enforcement agencies
- Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
- United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC)
- Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS)
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
[edit] External links
- www.dodig.mil
- www.dodig.mil (PDF)
