Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, also known as the FBI, is a threat-based and intelligence-driven national security organization in the United States.
FBI Mission
The mission of the FBI is clear: to protect and defend the United States against foreign intelligence and terrorist threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal justice laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
Priorities of the FBI
Such a broad-based mission naturally involves some rather specific priorities. In carrying out its mission, the FBI seeks to focus on threats that challenge the very foundation of this country and which may be too large or complex for any local or state authority to tackle on their own. The FBI produces and uses its intelligence to protect this nation from threats and to bring to justice those who violate the laws of the United States.
FBI priorities include:
• Protect the United States from terrorist attack
• Protect the United States against espionage and foreign intelligence operations
• Protect the United States against high-technology crimes and cyber-based attacks
• Protect civil rights
• Combat all levels of public corruption
• Combat major white-collar crime
• Combat significant violent crime
• Combat national/transnational criminal enterprises and organizations
• Support federal, state, local and international partners
• Update technology to successfully carry out the FBI’s mission
What FBI Investigates Relative to Drugs
One of the FBI’s criminal priorities involves investigating organized crime. Six of the seven specific areas of organized crime have elements related to criminal drug trafficking, illegal gambling and other crimes tertiary to substance abuse and addiction such as theft, kidnapping, extortion, and more.
• Italian Mafia/La Cosa Nostra (or LCN) -- involved in, among other things, drug trafficking and illegal gambling
• Eurasian – Criminal groups and enterprises involved in drug trafficking, auto theft, extortion, human smuggling and prostitution
• Balkan – Balkan organized crime applies to organized crime units originating from or operating in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. Albanian crime activities in the U.S. include drug trafficking, gambling, money laundering, human smuggling, extortion, violent witness intimidation, robbery, murder and attempted murder.
• Middle Eastern – Types of criminal activity these groups are involved is wide-ranging and includes drug trafficking, smuggling, health care fraud, cigarette smuggling and more.
• Asian – Groups conduct traditional racketeering activities of organized crime (extortion, murder, kidnapping, illegal gambling, prostitution, and loan sharking). They also smuggle aliens, and traffic heroin and methamphetamine
• African – These criminal enterprises are heavily involved in drug trafficking – delivering heroin from Southeast and Southwest Asian into Europe and the United States, and cocaine from South America into Europe and South Africa. The associated money laundering has helped Nigerian criminal enterprises to be established in all of the world’s continents.
Other Areas of FBI Investigation
Under national security priorities, the FBI investigates online predators. Its website contains reports, special bulletins, and useful guides to helping parents protect their children on the Internet, using social networking sites, protecting children offline. The site also has links to other resources, including a teen safety website, “Don’t Believe the Type,” NetSmart Kids and more.
Crimes against children is another top FBI priority. Its mission is to decrease vulnerability of children to sexual exploitation; to develop a nationwide capacity to provide a rapid, effective and measured response to crimes against children, and to enhance the capabilities of state and local law enforcement investigations through programs, task force operations, and investigative assistance.
FBI Headquarters
The FBI Headquarters are in Washington, D.C. at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. They can be contacted at (202) 324-3000 or check out one of the 56 field FBI offices (also called divisions) by going to http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field.
The FBI main website is located at http://www.fbi.gov/.
--Suzannekane 01:40, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
