Directorate for Criminal Investigations

The Directorate for Criminal Invesigations (: Dirección de Investigaciones Criminales, DIC), the largest national-level civilian law enforcement agency in Ventora, is the country's leading organization. It investigates crimes in violation of national laws and operates the country's most advanced forensic laboratories. Other law enforcement agencies in Ventora may request investigative and technical assistance in cases of major crimes. The agency's investigators have arrest authority while technical, laboratory, and support personnel are civilians without arrest authority. The directorate is part of the Interior Commission.

History
King Andrés I sanctioned the formation of the Investigative Service in 1852 with the purpose to "investigate heinous crimes and bring their perpetrators to justice." It was renamed the Directorate for Criminal Investigations when it was placed within the Interior Commission upon the latter's formation in 1913.

Role
DIC investigates violations of most national-level criminal laws, including those involving the Ventoran Armed Forces, excluding fiscal, economic, and environmental matters. The agency provides technical,, and forensic services for all national law enforcement agencies. Police agencies in the duchies may also request assistance for major cases beyond their capabilities or requiring specialized handling. All law enforcement agencies in Ventora have access to and make uses of the Crime Information Service (Servicio de Información Criminal), commonly known simply as SIC, which is a real-time criminal information networked database.

Although the Bureau for International Police Cooperation (Oficina de Cooperación Policial Internacional, OCPI) is in the Interior Commission secretariat, several of its personnel are seconded from DIC. In practice, most foreign police assistance occurring within Ventora's borders happens at DIC offices, laboratories, or working with investigators in the field rather than at the commission.

The Criminalistics Council sets the qualifications for criminal investigators and minimum standards for forensic laboratories. It has representatives from the Interior Commission and each of the 26 duchies.

Fiscal and economic crimes fall under the jurisdiction of the Fiscal Watchmen Corps. The Environmental Wardens Corps has responsibility for environmental crimes.

Structure
The directorate is structured as follows:
 * Secretariat&mdash;offices of the director and senior directorate officials
 * Criminalistics Council
 * Directorate General for Intelligence councillor
 * Environmental Wardens Corps councillor
 * Fiscal Watchmen Corps councillor
 * Gendarmerie councillor
 * Information Office (Minister Prolocutor)
 * Bureau for Investigative Operations (Oficina de Operaciones de Investigación, OOI)
 * Anticorruption Division
 * Counterinsurgency Division
 * Cyber Crimes Division
 * Organized Crime Division
 * Property Crimes Division
 * Violent Crimes Division
 * Bureau for Criminalistics (Oficina de Criminalística, OdC)
 * Analytics Division
 * Ballistics and Explosives Division
 * Biometrics Division
 * Digital Forensics Division
 * Laboratory Division
 * Sciences Division
 * Bureau for Operational Support (Oficina de Apoyo Operativo, OAO)
 * Aviation Support Unit
 * Crime Information Service (Servicio de Información Criminal, SIC)
 * Electronic Surveillance Unit
 * Evidence Management Unit
 * Records and Data Unit
 * Surveillance Support Unit

Personnel
As of 2019, the directorate has 11,310 employees, of which 3,732 are investigators empowered to make arrests. The remainder are administrators, support personnel, and technical and scientific staff. Ogla Vemos Kazani was appointed director in 2017.

DIC personnel do not wear uniforms in the performance of their duties. Civilian employees are part of the public officials subject to the qualifications, pay, and promotion regulations applicable to their occupational classification. Investigators, while also public officials, have a distinct rank structure:
 * Apprentice Investigator
 * Investigator
 * Specialist Investigator
 * Senior Investigator
 * Master Investigator
 * Chief Investigator
 * Superintendent
 * Chief Superintendent