State bureau of investigation
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A State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is a state-level detective agency in the United States of America, which 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. 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.
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).
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- Generic topics
- Specific state forces
- Arizona Rangers
- Alabama Bureau of Investigation
- California Bureau of Investigation
- Florida Department of Law Enforcement
- Georgia Bureau of Investigation
- Illinois State Police (There was a separate Illinois Bureau of Investigation in the 1970s.)
- Indiana State Police
- Kansas Bureau of Investigation
- Kentucky Bureau of Investigation - [1]
- Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension - [2]
- New Mexico State Police Special Investigations Division
- North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation - [3]
- Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation - [4]
- Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
- South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division
- Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
- Texas Rangers
- Virginia State Police
