What Are the Different Criminal Investigator Jobs?

CID is short for Criminal Investigation Department. When the United States used foreign troops several times in the twentieth century, the number of military crimes increased with the increase in the number of military personnel. Traditional military police officers did not have sufficient training and experience to handle related criminal investigations. During World War II, the U.S. military began to set up a specially trained gendarmerie criminal investigation team (CID) in the gendarmerie, which is responsible for investigating related crimes of U.S. military personnel.

CID

(Gendarmerie Criminal Investigation Group)

When the United States used foreign troops several times in the twentieth century, the number of military crimes increased with the increase in the number of military personnel. Traditional military police officers did not have sufficient training and experience to handle related criminal investigations.

The Gendarmerie Criminal Investigation Team has all been transferred to the Army Criminal Investigation Command under the command of the Army. It is no longer under the command of army gendarmerie units at all levels. However, it has close links with the gendarmerie forces in terms of personnel, training, troop numbers, and task execution.

The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is a first-level unit under the U.S. Army, which investigates all criminal cases related to Army personnel and property ("CID" is responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations in which the Army is, or may be , a party of interest.). From the death of a person to fraud, from inside the barracks to outside the barracks, CID members of USACIDC's gendarmerie criminal investigation team handle investigations of criminal cases related to the U.S. military, and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies to investigate various types of criminal cases when needed.

The Supreme Commander of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command is a major general. The largest execution unit under USACIDC is the "CID MP Group", which is the same level as the Gendarmerie Brigade. Today there are four CIDs, including the 202nd Gendarmerie Group, the 3rd Gendarmerie Group, the 6th Gendarmerie Group and the 701th Gendarmerie Group. The gendarmerie group (see Figure 4 Organization chart of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command); there are three types of units under the gendarmerie group: "CID Gendarmerie Zone, CID Gendarmerie Battalion, and CID Regional Office": "CID Gendarmerie District (MP District) "Same level as the gendarmerie battalion, under the jurisdiction of several CID contingents;" CID gendarmerie battalion "is inherited from the original gendarmerie battalion number, but has been reorganized into a CID unit, so there are only dozens of posts, completely unable to join the army The Chinese Military Corps Gendarmerie Battalion is on a par with each other, and has several CID contingents under its jurisdiction. The functions of the regional office are also the same as the above two. The smallest CID unit is the "MP Detachment", which is at the same level as the Gendarmerie Company. Main task

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Services include: maintaining logistical security, collecting criminal intelligence, counter-terrorism, criminal investigation, security maintenance of troops, and follow-up missions of important persons. The main task of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command is to investigate crimes in the army and prevent crimes. If necessary, non-military personnel may be appointed as CID Special Agents. The gendarmerie and CID will form a crime investigation team to perform their duties.

The United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) belongs to more than 120 units including the MP Group, the Regional Criminal Investigation Office, the Criminal Identification Center, and the Criminal Record Center. Among them are criminal identification professionals. There are also computer crime processing experts, portrait rendering experts, criminal intelligence collection and analysis units, and other specialized technologies required by law enforcement units. USACIDC adheres to the scientific and professional spirit and conducts criminal investigations, drug detection, and terrorist organization crimes involving the US military worldwide. Containment and other work, in business with the United States Metropolitan Police, State Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Anti-Drug Agency (ONDCP), the Department of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency ( NSA), and the police and prosecution units of the U.S. military stationed in the country have maintained close contacts and exchanges. As for the classification of the Army Criminal Investigation Command, it is easy to misunderstand that it has nothing to do with the military police because its name is not attached to the military police. As far as the system is concerned, most of its members have gendarmerie status, and their commanders are mostly transferred from gendarmerie generals. Pipeline and the army military police (MP) exchanges very closely.

As for the division of investigation responsibilities between USACIDC and the military gendarmerie as follows:

The Army's Criminal Investigation Command is responsible for military-related felony crimes (death sentence or more than one year in prison). Usually, investigation teams have individual crimes, property violations, economic crimes, drug crimes, organizational crimes, and criminal intelligence groups. Dealing with various criminal matters:

(1) Property-related offenses: USACIDC is responsible for investigating cases of theft or damage of more than one thousand dollars worth of property or involving government property and sensitive objects (such as missiles); the gendarmerie is responsible for case.

(2) Drug offenses: Generally speaking, USACIDC is responsible for controlling drug cases, CID is responsible for the distribution of non-narcotic drugs and the possession, use, manufacture, and sale of narcotic drugs, and the gendarmerie is responsible for handling personal possession or use of non-narcotic drugs. Drug case.

(3) Misdemeanors: USCIDC only keeps investigations on some complicated cases, and most of the cases are under the responsibility of military police.

(4) Non-combat deaths: USACIDC's investigation is limited to finding out whether there are any criminal acts involved.

(5) Military offenses: General offenses (such as disrespect for sentiments or sentinel deviations) are usually not the responsibility of USACIDC or MP, but are handled by the respective army chiefs, and only by major military matters are handled by the gendarmerie.

(6) Crimes affecting supplies (Criminal affecting Reserve Component): Crimes of damage to supplies due to fraud, theft, damage to US government funds or property, and other incidents affecting the interests of the U.S. Army are investigated by the Army Criminal Investigation Command .

(7) War Crimes: USACIDC is responsible for investigating cases of violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

(8) Adultery and homosexuality (Fraternization): This type of case is usually not investigated by USACIDC and MP, but handled by the offender officer, but it can still be reported through the MP through appropriate channels.

(9) Offenses involving senior personnel: USACIDC is responsible for investigating felony crimes committed by high-ranking members of the military. As for other minor crimes of high-ranking personnel, only sensitive or complex cases are investigated.

(10) Aggravated assaults: USACIDC is responsible for investigating serious injury incidents in which the injured person is hospitalized (non-observed) for more than 24 hours. Other serious injury incidents are investigated by the gendarmerie.

During the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Pentagon where the Ministry of Defense was located was also severely hit by a hijacked civil aircraft. Among the rescue and investigators who first arrived at the scene for processing at the time were Fort Meer (Fort Myer) 's CID investigator was present at the scene for the first time on-site processing, and during subsequent incident investigations, the CID investigator also conducted investigations with FBI agents.