Naval criminal Investigative Service - wikipedia Naval criminal Investigative Service This article is about the federal agency. For the U.S. television show, see NCIS ( TV series ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2013 ) United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service The NCIS logo Seal of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service Badge of an NCIS Special Agent Common name Naval Criminal Investigative Service Agency overview Formed Preceding agency Naval Investigative Service ( NIS ) Employees 2,500 ( 90 % civilian ) Annual budget US $460 million ( 2009 ) Jurisdictional structure Federal agency United States Operations jurisdiction United States General nature Federal law enforcement Headquarters Russell - Knox Building, MCB Quantico, Virginia, U.S. Special agents 1,250 Agency executive Andrew L. Traver, Director Parent agency United States Department of the Navy Units Units Cold Case Homicide Unit Multiple Threat Alert Center Central Adjudication Facility Major Case Response Team Law Enforcement Information Exchange DONCAF Contingency Response Senior Executive Service Personnel Operations & Services Department Cyber support office Forensic Analysis Protective Operations Division Recruitment NCIS Police & Security Joint Terrorism Task Force Armory NSCC Support Office of Special Projects Field offices 16 Facilities Cars Dodge Chargers, Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors, Cadillacs ( Protective Operation Division ) Website www.ncis.navy.mil The United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service ( NCIS ) is the primary law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Navy. Its primary function is to investigate criminal activities involving the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, though its broad mandate includes national security, counterintelligence, counter-terrorism, cyber warfare, and the protection of U.S. naval assets worldwide. NCIS is the successor organization to the former Naval Investigative Service ( NIS ), which was established by the Office of Naval Intelligence after the Second World War. The vast majority of NCIS personnel are civilian, roughly half of whom are special agents trained to carry out a wide variety of assignments around the world. NCIS agents are armed federal law enforcement investigators, who frequently coordinate with other U.S. government agencies and have a presence in over 40 countries, as well as on U.S. Navy vessels. NCIS special agents are supported by analysts and other experts skilled in disciplines such as forensics, surveillance, surveillance countermeasures, computer investigations, physical security, and polygraph examinations. Contents 1 History 1.1 Origins 1.2 NIS and the Cold War 1.3 Recent history 2 Special Agents Afloat 3 Armaments 4 In popular culture 5 See also 5.1 Military criminal investigative organizations 5.2 Defense criminal investigative organizations 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links History Origins NCIS traces its roots to Navy Department General Order 292 of 1882, signed by William H. Hunt, Secretary of the Navy, which established the Office of Naval Intelligence ( ONI ). Initially, ONI was tasked with collecting information on the characteristics and weaponry of foreign vessels, charting foreign passages, rivers, or other bodies of water, and touring overseas fortifications, industrial plants, and shipyards. In anticipation of the United States ' entry into World War I, ONI 's responsibilities expanded to include espionage, sabotage, and all manner of information on the U.S. Navy 's potential adversaries. In World War II ONI became responsible for the investigation of sabotage, espionage and subversive activities that posed any kind of threat to the Navy. NIS and the Cold War The major buildup of civilian special agents began with the Korean War in 1950, and continued through the Cold War years. In 1966 the name Naval Investigative Service ( NIS ) was adopted to distinguish the organization from the rest of ONI, and in 1969 NIS special agents were reclassified from contract employees and became Excepted Civil Service. In the early 1970s, an NIS special agent was stationed on the USS Intrepid ( CV - 11 ) for six months. This marked the beginning of the `` Deployment Afloat '' program, now called the Special Agent Afloat program, which deploys special agents for year - long assignments aboard carrier battle groups and amphibious readiness groups. In 1972, background investigations were transferred from NIS to the newly formed Defense Investigative Service ( DIS ), allowing NIS to give more attention to criminal investigations and counter-intelligence. The 1970s also saw NIS ' first female agent, who was stationed at Naval Air Station Miramar, California in 1975. In 1982, NIS assumed responsibility for managing the U.S. Navy 's Law Enforcement and Physical Security Program and the U.S. Navy 's Information and Personnel Security Program. Additionally, in 1982, two classes of NIS Special Agents were trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center ( FLETC ) in Glynco, Georgia, in an assessment of the school 's capability to train military investigators. Prior to this and subsequently until 1984, NIS Special Agent Training was in ONI Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland. In 1984, NIS Special Agents began training at FLETC, along with other federal investigative agencies, except for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the United States Postal Inspection Service. Two months after the October 1983 bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, the agency opened the Navy Antiterrorist Alert Center ( ATAC ), a 24 - hour - a-day operational intelligence center that issued indications and warnings on terrorist activity to Navy and Marine Corps commands. ATAC was the facility at which Jonathan Pollard was working when he committed the acts of espionage for which he was convicted in 1987. In 2002 the ATAC became the Multiple Threat Alert Center ( MTAC ). In 1985, Cathal L. Flynn became the first admiral to lead NIS. The command took on the additional responsibility of Information and Personnel Security. In 1986, the Department of the Navy Central Adjudication Facility ( DoN CAF ) was established and placed under the agency, as the agency was now once again responsible for adjudicating security clearances ( although not the actual investigations ). DoN CAF renders approximately 200,000 eligibility determinations annually for the Department of the Navy. In 1991, NIS was responsible for investigating the Tailhook scandal, which involved allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment by Naval and Marine Corps officers in Las Vegas, Nevada. Subsequent to this investigation, and at the direction of the chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Sam Nunn, the Naval Investigative Service was restructured into the Naval Criminal Investigative Service ( NCIS ). The restructuring occurred as a result of perceived lapses in proper investigative technique over the Tailhook scandal, as well as chain of command issues and a lack of civilian oversight in previous investigations. At the time, Senator Nunn stated, `` The Navy 's whole investigative technique should be under serious question. '' As a result of the investigation into the Tailhook scandal, the Pentagon 's inspector general was sharply critical of NIS leadership, stating that there was a top - down culture showing a lack of cooperation with other authorities in the Navy. By 1992, Acting Secretary of the Navy, Sean O'Keefe, recommended the word `` Criminal '' be included in NIS 's name in order to make clear their investigative function. Ultimately, NIS commander, Rear Adm. Duvall Williams Jr., was forced to retire and NIS was reorganized as NCIS under civilian leadership. Recent history In 1992, the NCIS mission was again clarified and became a mostly civilian agency. Roy D. Nedrow, a former United States Secret Service ( USSS ) executive, was appointed as the first civilian director and the name changed from Naval Investigative Service to Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Nedrow oversaw the restructuring of NCIS into a Federal law enforcement agency with 14 field offices controlling field operations in 140 locations worldwide. In 1995, NCIS introduced the Cold Case Homicide Unit. In May 1997, David L. Brant was appointed Director of NCIS by Secretary of the Navy John Howard Dalton. Director Brant retired in December 2005. He was succeeded by Director Thomas A. Betro who was appointed Director of NCIS in January 2006, by Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter. Betro retired in September 2009. On September 13, 2009, Deputy Director of Operations Gregory A. Scovel was appointed Acting Director by Under Secretary of the Navy Robert Work. He served concurrently as Deputy Director for Operations until the new Director was selected. Mark D. Clookie, director of NCIS, at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial In 1999, NCIS and the Marine Corps Criminal Investigation Division ( USMC CID ) signed a memorandum of understanding calling for the integration of Marine Corps CID into NCIS. ( USMC CID continues to exist to investigate misdemeanors and felonies and other criminal offenses not under NCIS investigative jurisdiction. ) In 2000, Congress granted NCIS civilian special agents authority to execute warrants and make arrests. Virtually all NCIS investigators, criminal, counterintelligence, and force protection personnel are now sworn civilian personnel with powers of arrest and warrant service. The exceptions are a small number of reserve military elements engaged in counter-intelligence support. A growing appreciation of the changing threat facing the Department of the Navy in the 21st century, culminating with the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole ( DDG - 67 ) in Yemen and the attacks on September 11, 2001, led NCIS to transform the Anti-terrorist Alert Center into the Multiple Threat Alert Center ( MTAC ) in 2002. NCIS agents were the first U.S. law enforcement personnel on the scene at the USS Cole bombing, the Limburg bombing and the terrorist attack in Mombasa, Kenya. NCIS 's Cold Case unit has solved 50 homicides since 1995 -- one of which was 33 years old. NCIS has conducted fraud investigations resulting in over half a billion dollars in recoveries and restitution to the U.S. government and the U.S. Navy since 1997. NCIS investigates any death occurring on a Navy vessel or Navy or Marine Corps aircraft or installation ( except when the cause of death is medically attributable to disease or natural causes ). NCIS oversees the Master - at - Arms programs for the Navy, overseeing 8800 Masters - at - Arms and the Military Working Dog program. NCIS 's three strategic priorities are to prevent terrorism, protect secrets, and reduce crime. Current missions for NCIS include criminal investigations, force protection, cross-border drug enforcement, anti-terrorism, counter-terrorism, major procurement fraud, computer crime and counter-intelligence. NCIS Special Agent Peter Garza conducted the first court - ordered Internet wiretap in the United States. Jonathan Jay Pollard was an NIS analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel after being caught by NIS and FBI. He received a life sentence in 1987. On February 14, 2010, Mark D. Clookie became the fourth civilian Director of NCIS, having been appointed to the position by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Clookie leads an agency that is composed of some 2,500 civilian and military personnel and has a presence in over 150 locations worldwide. He is responsible for executing an annual operating budget of approximately $460 million. In December 2012, the FBI released redacted documents regarding operations against Occupy Wall Street. In one FBI report, the NCIS is quoted as looking into links between Occupy and `` organized labor actions '' in December 2011. Special agents Afloat An NCIS special agent, assigned to the USS Kearsarge, gives a girl a drink of water during a medical assessment of a local village during hurricane relief operations in Haiti in 2008. The Special Agent Afloat Program of NCIS sends NCIS Special Agents aboard U.S. aircraft carriers and other ships ( for example, hospital ships and amphibious assault ships ). The purpose of the program is to provide professional investigative, counterintelligence, and force protection support to deployed Navy and Marine Corps commanders. These special agents are assigned to aircraft carriers and other deployed major combatants. Their environment can best be described as a `` floating city. '' The assignment offers many of the same investigative challenges found by any criminal investigator working in a metropolitan city. A special agent assigned to a carrier must be skilled in general criminal investigations including : crime scene examination, expert interview techniques, and use of proactive law enforcement procedures to stop criminal activity before it occurs. The special agent afloat also provides guidance on foreign counterintelligence matters, including terrorism. It is also the mission of the special agent afloat to offer Navy and Marine Corps leadership advice and operational support on security issues which might threaten the safety of ships, personnel and resources. Armaments The current standard issue pistol of NCIS is the SIG Sauer P229R DAK or SIG Sauer P239 DAK in. 40 S&W. Agents may also qualify with a weapon from an approved list of manufacturers in 9mm or 40 S&W. For combat environments, special agents are issued the U.S. Navy MK18. In popular culture This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject 's impact on popular culture, using references to reliable sources, rather than simply listing appearances. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2018 ) Television In 2003, the series NCIS began as a spin - off of JAG and features a fictional Major Case Response Team consisting of a team of NCIS agents based at Washington Navy Yard in Washington D.C. In 2009, that series spun off NCIS : Los Angeles, featuring a fictional Office of Special Projects team based in Los Angeles that specializes in undercover assignments. A second spin - off set in a small New Orleans Field office, NCIS : New Orleans, started in 2014. The Pentagon Channel aired a documentary in June 2009 entitled Recon : Military CSI about crime scene investigation techniques used in the theater of war by NCIS special agents. The National Geographic Channel filmed a documentary entitled Inside the Real NCIS. Investigation Discovery filmed a 13 - episode series called The Real NCIS highlighting thirteen different crimes solved by NCIS special agents. In 2017, CBS began airing 48 Hours : NCIS, an extension of the 48 Hours investigative program focused on real life NCIS cases, and narrated by Rocky Carroll of NCIS. Film The 2000 film Dangerous Evidence : The Lori Jackson Story is based on the 1995 best - selling book Dangerous Evidence. The book recounts the true story of NIS agents accused of framing an African - American Marine corporal for a crime he did not commit. CBS News journalist Ellis A. Cohen covered the story for 60 Minutes and then wrote the book and produced the Lifetime movie. Books In Richard Marcinko 's book Rogue Warrior, he details his conflict with NIS. Later, an NIS investigation named `` Iron Eagle '' would result in a federal prison sentence. Special Agent, Vietnam : A Naval Intelligence Memoir was written by former Special Agent Douglass H. Hubbard about special agents during the Vietnam War. Hubbard served as an NIS special agent in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972. Author Mel Odom authored an NCIS series of novels entitled Paid in Blood, Blood Evidence, and Bloodlines. The Crisis : A Dan Lenson Novel by David Poyer details the adventures of NCIS special agents in the Horn of Africa ( HOA ). Capturing Jonathan Pollard : How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice was published in 2006. Written by retired NCIS Special Agent Ron Olive, it recounts the NIS investigation of Pollard. Dick Tracy is a U.S. comic strip featuring a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. In a prose novel by Max Allan Collins based on the strip, Dick Tracy Goes to War, Tracy accepts a direct commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve and to go on active duty as an Agent of the Office of Naval Intelligence, the precursor to NCIS. In the comic strip, as detailed in the 1944 sequence pitting Tracy against an Axis spy Alfred `` The Brow '' Brau, Tracy is commissioned into the same position with ONI, but holds the rank of Lieutenant. See also United States Navy portal Law enforcement / Law enforcement topics portal List of United States federal law enforcement agencies Military criminal investigative organizations Coast Guard Investigative Service ( CGIS ) United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations ( AFOSI, or OSI ) United States Army Criminal Investigation Command ( USACIDC or CID ) United States Army Counterintelligence ( USAI or CI ) United States Marine Corps Criminal Investigation Division ( USMCCID ) Defense criminal investigative organizations Defense Criminal Investigative Service ( DCIS ) Federal law enforcement Master - at - arms ( United States Navy ) Shore Patrol ( USN and USMC ) Criminal Investigation Task Force ( CITF ) Military police National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement ( OLE ) Special agent U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS ), State Department JAG Corps Judge Advocate General 's Corps, U.S. Navy U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate Division Intelligence Marine Corps Intelligence Activity Office of Naval Intelligence ( ONI ) United States Army Counterintelligence ( USAI or CI ) United States Army Intelligence and Security Command ( INSCOM ) Coast Guard Counterintelligence Service ( CGCIS ) References Jump up ^ ( PDF ) http://www.sapns2.com/files/white-paper/NCIS%20-%20Better%20Solutions%20Help%20Fight%20Crime.pdf. 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Retrieved 2009 - 11 - 01. `` I called the U.S. Attorney 's office in Boston on a Thursday and asked if we could have the court order in place by Monday, '' Garza recounts. `` They laughed. Six months was considered the ' speed of light ' for wiretap approval. But we started to put the affidavit together anyway, and got it okayed in only six weeks, which at that time was unheard of. '' Indeed, the work of Garza and the others to obtain a wiretap in the 1995 Ardita case laid a lot of the groundwork that made it possible for investigators in the 1999 Solar Sunrise case ( which I describe later in this chapter ) to obtain wiretap approval in one day. Jump up ^ `` NOVA Online Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies Jonathan Jay Pollard ''. Pbs.org. 1985 - 11 - 18. Retrieved 2013 - 07 - 17. Jump up ^ Partnership for Civil Justice Fund : `` FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring '', page 32 of documents Jump up ^ `` NCIS Special Agent Afloat Program ''. Jump up ^ Sig Sauer press release. Retrieved February 10, 2011. Jump up ^ Inside the Real NCIS - National Geographic Channel Further reading Protecting America 's Heroes Schmitt, Eric ( 11 June 1990 ). `` Navy Investigators Face New Attack ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008 - 01 - 02. Gives history of criticisms of NCIS / NIS performance in high - profile cases. Shootingwire.com External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval Criminal Investigative Service. 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Question: what does the naval criminal investigative service do
Answer: investigate criminal activities involving the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, though its broad mandate includes national security, counterintelligence, counter-terrorism, cyber warfare, and the protection of U.S. naval assets worldwide