Coast Guard Investigative Service

Coast Guard Investigative Service
Coast Guard Investigative Service
Abbreviation	CGIS
	Coast Guard Investigative Service seal
	Badge of the Coast Guard Investigative Service
Motto	Service, Integrity, Justice
Agency overview
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency	United States
Constituting instrument	United States Code Title 14 Part I Chapter 5 Section 95
General nature	Federal law enforcement; Military provost;
Operational structure
Headquarters	Arlington, VA
Agency executive	Michael Berkow, Director, Coast Guard Investigative Service
Parent agency	United States Coast Guard
Website
	http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg2/cgis/

The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) is a division of the United States Coast Guard that investigates crimes where the Coast Guard has an interest. It is composed of civilian (GS-1811), active duty, reserve enlisted, and warrant officer Special Agents.

Mission[]

The mission of the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) is to conduct professional criminal investigations, engage in law enforcement information and intelligence collection, provide protective services, and establish and maintain law enforcement liaison directed at preserving the integrity of the Coast Guard, protecting the welfare of Coast Guard people, and supporting Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) maritime law enforcement and counter-terrorism missions worldwide.

Authority[]

The Coast Guard Investigative Service is a federal law enforcement agency whose law enforcement authority is derived from 14 U.S.C. § 95. This authority provides for Coast Guard special agents to conduct investigations of actual, alleged or suspected criminal activity; carry firearms; execute and serve warrants; and make arrests. The criminal investigative function of the Coast Guard Investigative Service is similar to that of a major crimes unit at a large metropolitan police department, investigating crimes such as those "internal" to the Coast Guard, including fraud, larceny, homicide and rape, as well as "external" investigations of maritime-related crimes ranging from migrant and drug smuggling, false distress calls, and violations of the environmental laws. The Coast Guard Investigative Service is a centralized directorship managed by a professional criminal investigator who reports directly to the Coast Guard's Assistant Commandant for Intelligence. It is located outside the Coast Guard's operational chain of command.

Responsibilities[]

Criminal Investigations[]

Felony Violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
United States Code violations related to or within the Maritime Jurisdiction of the U.S.
Counter-Narcotics and Alien Smuggling Investigations
Fisheries Violations and Environmental Crimes
Counter-Terrorism and Force Protection
Investigative assistance to Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement
Protective Service Operations

Commandant/Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard[]

Assistance to U.S. Secret Service Presidential Detail
Other Foreign and Domestic Dignitaries as Requested

Intelligence Operations[]

Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collection Operations
Image Intelligence Collection Operations (IMINT)
Law Enforcement Information Collection

Anti-Fraud, Waste and Abuse[]

Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General Hotline complaint investigations
TRICARE medical fraud investigations

Task Force & Liaison Activities[]

Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force
Border Enforcement Security Team (BEST)

International Policing[]

INTERPOL
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)

CGIS Special Agents[]

The CGIS special agent workforce is composed of active duty military, reserve, and civilian personnel. However, virtually all CGIS investigators, criminal, counterintelligence, and force protection personnel are sworn civilian personnel with powers of arrest and warrant service, with the exception of a small number of reserve military personnel. All CGIS Special Agents have full arrest powers under Title 14 section 95 of the United States Code.

The active duty military component is composed of Enlisted Personnel and Chief Warrant Officer investigator positions. The civilian component is composed of GS-1811-11 to SES criminal investigator positions.

Firearms[]

The Coast Guard Investigative Service's standard issue firearm is the SIG Sauer P229R DAK or SIG Sauer P239 DAK in .40 S&W.

Appearance in popular culture[]

In March 2010, the character of Abigail Borin, a fictional CGIS Special Agent portrayed by actress Diane Neal, appeared on the hit television drama NCIS in an episode entitled "Jurisdiction". Special Agent Borin appeared again in January 2011, in the episode "Ships in the Night", as CGIS joined the NCIS team in the investigation of the murder of a U.S. Marine Corps officer on a dinner boat cruise on the Potomac River. The story illustrates CGIS's law enforcement responsibilities along the United States' rivers, coastlines, and inland waterways in support of the Coast Guard. In October 2011, she returned for a third time in the episode "Safe Harbor", which had a plot that illustrated the role of the CGIS in supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through maritime law enforcement and counter-terrorism missions worldwide. She returned in Lost At Sea in October 2012, when she was investigating a death of a naval lieutenant commander in which it involved a financial motive for murder. She made another appearance in October 2013, in which it involved a death of a retired Marine Major in which an oil platform exploded killing the Marine name Marv Hebner. At the request of Gibbs she was asked to go with DiNozzo to question a suspect and that she was forcing a answer out of a suspect in which Gibbs was able to step in, she revealed the fact that on a Marine mission she had been exposed to a tragedy of her boyfriend, Gibbs allowed a second opportunity to let her question Brett Creevy in which he was the one who masterminded the death of Marv Hebner with a confession to Abagail Borin in again the motive was financial in which she told DiNozzo that the confession lasted for ten minutes and that her record is five. After DiNozzo is ready to leave he got pranked that it was her who masterminded a prank on McGee, Abby Sciuto, DiNozzo. She made her last appearance in The San Dominick in which she got to meet Ellie Bishop for a standard NCIS test and CGIS test presumably by her boss Tom Morrow and Leon Vance; Bishop asks about a do over with NCIS and CGIS in which Abby Borin mentions that no do overs on federal tests, after talking to Gibbs, they both witness a homicide of a pirate that was holding a Cargo Ship hostage and their captain Tom O' Rourke, it turned out within the episode her and DiNozzo were on the laptop for McGee and Bishop about McGee being in charge from DiNozzo. She and DiNozzo were forced to cough up one million dollars in one hour before deaths occur; DiNozzo and Borin were able to locate Gibbs and that they found a bomb that was willing to detonate in which it turned out to have NCIS and Borin work a double homicide of a former pirate and a retired sailor. Borin, Gibbs and DiNozzo were able to find a bomb of missing money in which a clue was uncovered about the murder was also financial gain and that it was from revenge and covering criminal activity, in which DiNozzo and Borin both referenced Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, arresting Tom O Rourke for the homicide of the same pirate for torturing him and killing Joe Willis for their deaths. Presumably Borin and DiNozzo were questioning Tom O' Rourke for the double homicide, just as Borin mentions that she needs to send Tom O' Rourke for the double homicide, embezzlement and theft and then she will be gone; she offers DiNozzo a change to CGIS in which he will be working for his former boss Morrow as a Junior Special Agent of CGIS.

External links[]

Coast Guard's site

References[]

↑ Coast Guard Investigative Service > Headquarters Offices and Senior Staff. Retrieved 2013-06-11.

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[1] Coast Guard Investigative Service > Headquarters Offices and Senior Staff. Retrieved 2013-06-11.

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