State bureau of investigation
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.0
An SBI is a 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 their state's attorney general, or in some cases to their state's governor.
SBIs can also 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).
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 – Arkansas Criminal Investigation Division
- California
- California Bureau of Investigation
- California Highway Patrol – Freeway traffic investigations
- California Fire Marshal
- California Rangers – California's historic state police/posse
- Colorado Department of Public Safety – Colorado Bureau of Investigation
- Connecticut State Police – Bureau of Criminal Investigations
- Delaware State Police
- Criminal Investigations Units
- Special Investigations Section
- Delaware Department of Justice
- Office of the Attorney General - Special Investigators
- 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) (SPI)
- Indiana State Police – Criminal Investigation Division (SBI)
- Kansas Office of Attorney General – Kansas Bureau of Investigation (SBI)
- Kentucky Office of the Attorney General – Kentucky Department of Criminal Investigation (SBI)
- Maryland – Maryland State Police Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)
- Minnesota Department of Public Safety Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension [1] (SBI)
- Mississippi Bureau of Investigation [2] (SBI)
- Nebraska State Patrol – Investigative Services
- New Hampshire Department of Safety - Division of State Police - Investigative Services Bureau
- 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 (SBI)
- 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
- South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation
- Tennessee Bureau of Investigation – an independent agency (SBI)
- Texas
- Texas Department of Public Safety –
- Texas Attorney General's Office – Criminal Investigations Division
- Virginia State Police – Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
- Wisconsin DOJ's Division of Criminal Investigation (SBI)
See also
- Law enforcement in the United States
- State police (United States)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Department of Public Safety
- Landeskriminalamt – German states
- Civil Police (Brazil) – Brazilian State Detective Agencies