Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)

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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the United States Department of the Navy's primary law enforcement agency and successor to the former Naval Investigative Service (NIS).

Roughly half of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) 2400 employees are civilian special agents. Highly trained, mobile, and versatile, they carry out a remarkable variety of assignments from more than 140 locations around the globe. NCIS special agents are armed federal law enforcement investigators. Supporting NCIS special agents is a cadre of analysts and other experts skilled in disciplines such as forensics, surveillance and surveillance countermeasures, computer investigations, physical security, and polygraph examinations.

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, the 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, the ONI's responsibilities expanded to include espionage, sabotage, and all manner of information on the Navy's potential adversaries; and in World War II the ONI became responsible for the investigation of sabotage, espionage and subversive activities that pose any kind of threat to the Navy.

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