The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) is the criminal investigative arm of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

Mission

The mission of the DCIS is to "protect America's Warfighters" by conducting investigations in support of crucial National Defense priorities.

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).

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)

See also

• List of United States federal law enforcement agencies

JAG Corps

• Judge Advocate General's Corps

Federal law enforcement

• Special agent
• Military police
• Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA)

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)

External links

• www.dodig.mil
• www.dodig.mil (PDF)