Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a division of
Colorado Department of Public Safety, is a law enforcement agency of the state of Colorado that performs forensic and laboratory services and criminal investigations at the request of local and state law enforcement, agencies, and district attorneys. They investigate arson, homicides, sexual assaults, fraud, cyber,
identity theft
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, and other crimes. Their forensic services include
DNA, biology, firearm, latent print, toxicology and drug chemistry analysis. Other units in the CBI include Crime Scene Services, Crime Information Management Unit, Criminal Justice Information Systems, and Colorado’s InstaCheck Unit. The CBI is designated by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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(FBI),
Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, as the CJIS Systems Agency for Colorado.
It is headquartered in the Denver suburb of Lakewood at 690 Kipling Street.
They work in concert with other organizations, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA; ) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating drug trafficking and distribution within th ...
, county sheriff's offices, district attorney's offices,
state police
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, and other law enforcement agencies.
As of 1999, the investigation into the
death of JonBenét Ramsey was the largest single case load, with more than 3,000 work hours for 2,509 laboratory specimen analysis and 25,520 lab examinations. In the summer of 1998, the Cortez police officer shooting resulted in 2,830 investigative hours by CBI agents.
(''
Hunting Badger
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Armed robbers at a Ute Indian gambling casino shoot two security guards, one fatall ...
'' was inspired by the shooting death of Dale Claxton).
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which performs background checks for firearm purchases, was involved in the case of Trader
James Gowda James Gowda (born 1942), also known as Jim Gowda, a firearms dealer for more than 20 years was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 1999 on charges of selling up to 10,000 handguns to people who did not live in Colorado, selling a semi-auto ...
, a firearms dealer for more than 20 years. It was described as the largest gun-trafficking case in history (as of 2000) by a
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly referred to as the ATF, is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and preven ...
Denver office employee. Gowda sold thousands of firearms at gunshows, mostly without background check paperwork. Under federal law, every firearm dealer's customer is required to have a background check. Gowda only performed background checks with the CBI on 15 customers between 1994 and 1996 and, after he was indicted by a federal grand jury, no more than 10 gun customers between January 1999 and June 2000. The CBI conducts all Colorado background checks of gun buyers except for one four-month period in 1999.
In 2004, the
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit gun rights advocacy group in Colorado, United States.
The group has become known for aggressive lobbying activities that have made their issues prominent, particularly in primaries and ca ...
lobbied for a bill that would have erased the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's database of concealed-weapons permit holders. Prior to 2007 permit holders were classified as "persons of interest" by the CBI. In 2007 the CBI moved permit holders out of that classification. Despite previous extensions of the law that allowed for the statewide database, the General Assembly did not renew the database and instead let it sunset.
CBI's Arvada lab was updated in 2016 with a "state-of-the-art forensic science laboratory" to improve their laboratory capability and efficiency in
rape kit and
toxicology
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testing. The $7 million renovation was funded by House Bill 1020 to ensure that the state met standards for rape kit testing. The Arvada laboratory, the largest of CBI's facilities, analyzes evidence from more than 10,000 cases and process more than 40,000 items of evidence each year.
See also
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List of law enforcement agencies in Colorado
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State of Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...
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State bureau of investigation
References
External links
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CBI links
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State law enforcement agencies of Colorado
State Bureaus of Investigation