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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

AGENCY STRUCTURE


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Director

Director is the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The task of the director is not so focused at performing field duties, but at leading the agency, resolving administrative matters, working out plans for the development and future of the agency, ensuring that the agency operates successfully, creates public conferences, coordinates joint operations between agencies and so on.


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Deputy Director

Deputy Director is Director's right hand. The task of the deputy director is to aid the director in performing of the duties listed above. The deputy director also is the acting director in absence of the director.


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Associate Deputy Director

Associate Deputy Director is the third highest rank in the FBI. Formerly known as the Director's Counsel, the Associate Deputy Director is handpicked by the Director and are apart of the Executive Staff of the FBI. Associate Deputy Directors can oversee the whole of the FBI and can be assigned to specific roles based on necessity.


Criminal Investigations Division
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Division Chief

Division Chief is the head of the division. This person is in charge of all of division's activities, developing the division, approving various operations and overseeing the overall execution of duties by the members of the division. Division Chief is responsible to the Director and the Deputy Director from who he seeks authorization for changes before implementation.


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Special Agent in Charge

The Special Agent in Charge, or abbreviated SAC, is a command member of the FBI, with the tasks of being more focused on field duties, ensuring that the agents are active, performing tasks successfully, makes plans, sets priorities, oversees the investigations, solves problems that agents may face, coordinates with the lower command of other agencies and so on.


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Supervisory Special Agent

The Supervisory Special Agent, or abbreviated SSA, is a supervisory member of the FBI, with the tasks of supervising inferior ranked members, assigning them tasks and overseeing their field performance, handle issues that may arise on the field and which would require attention of a supervisor, and ensure that the Field Staff functions effectively and efficiently.


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Special Agent

Special Agents are experienced members of the bureau. They are role models to the agents, guide them and answer any doubts they may have, their experience and knowledge is immense and therefore they also serve as instructors, teaching the cadets and growing the bureau's manpower by doing so.


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Agent

The primary workforce of the bureau, they perform duties on the field, interact with the citizens, create investigations, arrive on scenes to collect evidence, information, they will negotiate where possible and look to conclude major situations peacefully with least casualties as possible and ensuring that innocent lives are preserved and saved.


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Probationary Agent

A Trainee Agent that completed the Academy process successfully and is now put to probation on the field. Probationary Agents are, as the name self-implies, on probation, and their performance on the field at this stage is closely evaluated and are still being guided by Agents and higher ranks to fully and completely be able to flawlessly execute their duties when time comes to become independent fully fledged Agents.


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Trainee Agent

A person that applied for the bureau and got accepted, passed the entrance examination and is now to undergo academy process which consists of multiple phases and further examinations which will filter out if the cadet is worthy or not of being called an agent.



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Division Chief

Division Chief is the head of the division. This person is in charge of all of division's activities, developing the division, approving various operations and overseeing the overall execution of duties by the members of the division. Division Chief is responsible to the Director and the Deputy Director from who he seeks authorization for changes before implementation.


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Commander

Commanders are heads of Special Response Team, equivalent to Special Agents in Charge in the case of Criminal Investigations Division. Commanders oversee the division and ensure that the division operates flawlessly and receives constant and regular training. They handle complaints over the members of that division and any other issues that may occur.


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Team Leader

Team Leaders are experienced members of the division who are capable of leading a team of Operators in situations. They organize training sessions and ensure that the members are trained and ready at all times to respond and neutralize threat and any situation that may occur. Team Leaders are responsible to plan and organize plans and tactics for major events.


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Senior Operator

Senior Operators are experienced members of the division who had served for quite some time and showed extraordinary performance and abilities. Aside of being Operators, their additional role is to be role models for inferior ranked members and to perform training sessions for them. They are there to give tips to the new members and to ensure they develop into qualified and competent Operators.


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Operator

Operators are fully fledged members of the division and the heart of it. They are the ones who make the division up and execute the difficult tasks that are presented to them on the field. Only the best of the best are expected to hold this rank, and only those who pass and overcome the intensive training deserve a place under this rank.


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Recruit

Self explanatory, newly recruited person to the division. Has to undergo intensive and extensive training in order to comprehend how the division operates, to learn the tactics and procedures necessary for operating within the division and to be filtered out if not as good as the standards are set.





Functions
Director's Counsel

Director's Counsel is a member designated by the Director of the FBI and provides the Director and the Deputy Director with advice. Director's Counsel are individuals of great loyalty and determination. These individuals are also usually, but not necessarily designated as Honorable Members. However, this position provides them access to high level discussions and information.


Spokesman

A spokesman is the person in charge of making public announcements in the FBI's name, creating and hosting press conferences, releasing articles relevant to the public, and maintaining good relationship between FBI and the public.


Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel is the person in charge of creating and handling prosecutions and other legal matters which the FBI is involved in. The legal counsel provides advice on various cases and suggest the ways to handle them.


Honorable Member

Honorable Member is a veteran member of the FBI or a member who has contributed greatly to the FBI through loyalty and determination over prolonged period of time. This position is designated to a member by the Director of the FBI. Those with this designation maintain a rank within the FBI of an 'Agent' or 'Special Agent'.


Retired Agent

Retired Agent is a member of the FBI who has retired but has achieved the rank of an Agent or higher. The person is able to reinstate to the former position once returned to normal activity.