This is the official page of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, which provides investigative services to the people of Iowa, maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards that guilt should not escape nor innocence suffer. The DCI is a division under the Iowa Department of Public Safety. REMINDER: This page is NOT an emergency response page. If you have an emergency, please c
all 911. The Division of Criminal Investigation includes the following bureaus and working units:
Field Operations Bureau: This bureau is best known as Iowa's "Detective Bureau." Major Crime Unit - Conducts and coordinates investigations with local law enforcement. Technology Support - Provides technology support for investigations involving mobile devices and digital media. Missing Persons and Unidentified Bodies - Assists in locating missing persons. Support Operations Bureau: This bureau provides administrative support for DCI. Staff collect, maintain, and provide information to law enforcement and the public. Administrative Support & Transcription
Records & Identification
Automated Biometric Identification System/Fingerprints
Dissemination
S*x Offender Registry
DCI Crime Lab: The Crime Lab provides thorough, accurate, and confidential handling of materials resulting in information that assists the criminal justice community in reaching informed decisions. Special Enforcement Operations Bureau: This bureau ensures public confidence and trust in Iowa's gaming industry. Cyber Crime Bureau: This bureau investigates crimes with a significant cyber, technological, or digital nexus. The Iowa DCI page is not the appropriate venue to make complaints about individuals, businesses or organizations, Iowa DPS, or otherwise. This site does not accept requests for public information under Iowa Open Records Statutes. Instead, please use our resources and guidelines at the bottom of the page. This is an open forum, and Iowa DCI welcomes your participation. Keep in mind this is a family-friendly page, so please keep comments and wall posts clean. We ask that you follow our page guidelines. We do not discriminate against any views but will remove any posts that violate the guidelines listed below:
- You participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for your comments, your username, and any information provided. Users who repeatedly violate the guidelines may be blocked from the Iowa DCI page.
- No graphic, obscene, explicit, or racial comments or submissions will be allowed, nor will comments that are abusive, threatening and/or hateful or intended to defame anyone or any organization.
- No solicitations or advertisements. This includes promotion or endorsement of any financial, commercial, non-government agencies and political views. Similarly, we do not allow attempts to defame or defraud any financial, commercial, or non-government agencies.
- No copyrighted or trademarked images or graphics.
- No comments or photos that suggest or encourage illegal activity.
- Apparent spam will be removed and may cause the author(s) to be blocked from the page without notice. The Iowa DCI will make every effort to monitor the contents of this page and ensure its content is of an appropriate nature. The appearance of external links on this site does not constitute official endorsement on behalf of the DCI or Iowa Department of Public Safety. Only those explicitly authorized can post comments on behalf of the Department. To request information or records, please email [email protected].
