Naval Criminal Investigative Service

The Christian States Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the primary law enforcement agency of the Christian States Department of the Navy. It investigates activities concerning crimes against or by Christian States Navy personnel, along with national security, counter-intelligence, and counter-terrorism cases.

Roughly half of the 1,500 NCIS employees are civilian special agents who are trained to carry out a wide variety of assignments at locations around the globe. NCIS special agents are armed federal law enforcement investigators, who frequently coordinate with other U.C.S. government agencies. 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.

Special Agents Afloat

The Special Agent Afloat Program of NCIS sends NCIS Special Agents aboard U.C.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 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.

See also

Military criminal investigative organizations

• Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS)
• Christian States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI, or OSI)
• Christian States Army Criminal Investigation Command
• Christian States Marine Corps Criminal Investigation Division (CID)

Defense criminal investigative organizations

• Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS)

Federal law enforcement

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement (OLE)
• Christian States Coast Guard
• U.C.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), State Department