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The agency oversees many of the administrative areas of the state's bureaus and departments, including procurement, travel, maintenance of public buildings, and surplus. The State Personnel Division was removed from the Department and made an independent agency in 2005. In 2008 the commissioner was Carrie Henderson and the agency had ...
This is a list of U.S. state and local law enforcement agencies — local, regional, special and statewide government agencies (state police) of the U.S. states, of the federal district, and of the territories that provide law enforcement duties, including investigations, prevention and patrol functions.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 482 law enforcement agencies employing 13,171 sworn police officers, about 206 for each 100,000 residents. [1] Since 2012, the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board (ILETB) has instituted a three-tier system of training for ...
An SBI is a state's equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but can include investigative jurisdiction similar to other federal law enforcement agencies as well. The SBIs investigate all manner of cases assigned to them by their state's laws and usually report to their state's attorney general , or in some cases, directly to their ...
[1] [2] While the Administrative Procedure Act definition of "agency" applies to most executive branch agencies, Congress may define an agency however it chooses in enabling legislation, and through subsequent litigation often involving the Freedom of Information Act and the Government in the Sunshine Act. These further cloud attempts to ...
A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any agency which enforces the law. This may be a special or local police / sheriffs , state troopers , and federal police such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the United States Marshals (USMS).
The Indiana State Police was the first law enforcement agency in North America to have authorized the use of the famed "Drunk-o-meter", a chemical test to determine levels of alcohol intoxication, which was invented in 1938 by Rolla N. Harger, M.D., a professor at Indiana University. [15]
The agency was organized into the following divisions: [3] General Office; Department of Law; Antimonopoly and Anti-unfair Competition Enforcement Bureau; Direct Selling Regulation Bureau; Consumer Protection Bureau; Department of Market Regulation; Regulation Department for Market Circulation of Food; Enterprise Registration Bureau