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Our
People and Capabilities |
Our people in Dallas possess a mix of talents and experience
that enable us to help protect you, your families,
and your workplaces from a full range of national security
threats and major crime problems.
Our employees include not only special agents, but
also a variety of specialized professionals such
as intelligence and financial analysts, investigative
specialists, support services technicians, language
specialists, paralegals, electronics technicians,
and security experts.
Our strength lies in our investigations—the
very heart of our operations—and in the collection,
analysis, and sharing of intelligence that drives
and supports those investigations both locally and
nationally. In every case, we work to objectively
gather the facts and to develop evidence that can
stand up in a court of law. To do that, we can interview
witnesses, run undercover operations, analyze financial
records, map and manage crime scenes, develop informants,
make arrests, conduct surveillance, and gather information
and intelligence from around the globe. Our cases
today are often complex and multi-faceted, involving
a range of public and private sector partners and
covering multiple jurisdictions.
Among our specialized capabilities:
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Evidence recovery
and processing: In Dallas, we have four Evidence
Response Teams. Each team is made
up of eight special agents and other specialists
who are sent to crime scenes to secure the area
and exhaustively gather and process physical evidence.
Each team member has a forensic specialty and
has
been extensively trained. They can take photographs,
diagram and survey scenes, gather fingerprints,
analyze blood stains and splatters, determine bullet
trajectories,
recover DNA, gather and process the smallest
of clues, and more. The teams coordinate with the
FBI Laboratory
and assist local law enforcement upon request.
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Computer
forensics: We have a Computer
Analysis and Response Team, or CART, that applies this
same evidentiary concept to the digital world.
These forensic
examiners are experts at retrieving evidence
from a vast array of digital devices, at processing
that
evidence in a way that maintains its integrity
for use in court, and at presenting the results
of their
findings to investigators. The team supports
the FBI, other law enforcement agencies, other
federal
agencies (including members of the intelligence
community), and authorized international law
enforcement agencies.
The Dallas Division
is also home to one of the national Regional
Computer Forensics Laboratories (RCFLs)
located throughout the United States. These RCFLs
are one-stop, full-service forensics laboratories
and training centers devoted to the examination
of digital evidence in support of law enforcement
investigations,
such as terrorism, child pornography, crimes
of violence, trade secret theft, theft or destruction
of intellectual
property, financial crime, property crime, Internet
crime, and fraud. The North
Texas RCFL combines the talents and experience of federal,
state, and local law enforcement officers.
Its duties include
seizing and collecting digital evidence at a
crime scene, conducting an impartial examination
of submitted
computer evidence, and testifying as required.
The Dallas Computer Analysis Response Team and North
Texas Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory are two
sides of the same coin. CART trains and certifies
forensic examiners, and the North Texas RCFL runs
the laboratory that CART examiners work in.
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 Tactical support
and crisis response: We have a SWAT
team (Specialized
Weapons and Tactics) that
can storm barricaded buildings and vehicles,
breach locks and other structures, arrest armed
and dangerous
criminals, rescue hostages, patrol areas and
provide security, navigate tough terrains by climbing
and
rappelling, use special techniques to stop fleeing
cars, and conduct site surveys for special events.
The team is highly trained and heavily equipped,
with expertise in a variety of weapons, including
pistols, assault and sniper rifles, and shotguns.
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Bomb recovery
and analysis: We have two special agent bomb technicians
in Dallas who can test and
render safe a variety of explosive devices. They
respond to calls of suspicious packages or objects
and are deployed during bombing investigations,
often working closely with our Joint Terrorism
Task Forces.
They gather diagnostic information from the explosives
that may be relayed as vital intelligence to
local investigators and to the national Terrorist
Explosive
Device Analytical Center. Our bomb techs often
work and train with local first responders and
law enforcement.
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Hazardous
materials: We have a HAZMAT team that can respond to terrorist
attacks and criminal incidents
involving hazardous materials—including chemical,
biological, and radiological—working in
concert with local officials and with Weapons
of Mass Destruction
experts at FBI Headquarters.
- Translation: Our group of language specialists
can translate written documents and audio files in
a variety of languages for terrorism, espionage,
and criminal cases. They also join agents on cases,
translating during live interviews and even during
undercover operations.
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