State Bureau of Investigation
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State Bureau of Investigation or SBI is the detective agency at state level, the state's equivalent to the FBI, who investigates all manner of cases assigned to them by their state's laws and who usually report to the State's Attorney General and in some cases to the state's governor. They are plainclothes agencies which usually investigate both criminal and civil cases involving the state and/or multiple jurisdictions. They also provide technical support to local agencies in the form of laboratory or record services.
Most SBIs exist either independently or within a Department of Public Safety ( which is an umbrella agency coordinating and/or controlling the various state level law enforcement agencies) or a State Police force (which is a general power law enforcement agency).
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