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FBI, This Week: Public Access Line
The FBI is implementing an easy way for the public to quickly provide tips and other information to agents and analysts.
FBI, This Week: Reveton Ransomware
A new Internet virus is holding computers hostage across the United States and beyond.
FBI, This Week: Iris, The FBI's Electronics Detection Canine
The FBI’s latest tool to track down evidence knows how to use her nose: Iris is a 2-year-old black Labrador retriever and is the FBI’s first electronics detection dog.
FBI, This Week: FBI Launches Bank Robbers Mobile App
A new mobile app for smartphones makes it easy for the public to help the FBI identify and catch the most violent and prolific serial bank robbers.
FBI, This Week: FBI Seeks to Attract Additional Cyber Talent
Cyber special agents and computer scientists make up the FBI's Cyber Action Team, and the Bureau is seeking to add more cyber talent.
FBI This Week: Leveraging Linguists for FBI Investigations
FBI investigations span cultures, languages, and borders, which makes it necessary for linguists to collaborate with special agents.
FBI, This Week: The FBI’s Strategy to Combat the Evolving Terror Threat
The FBI is combating a changed terror threat since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
FBI, This Week: Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week
Prescription opioid and heroin abuse is an epidemic in America, and the FBI stands in support of those touched by this crisis.
FBI, This Week: The Collection of Crime Statistics
To understand what crime statistics mean in detail, the FBI is energizing its push for the country’s law enforcement agencies to use a modern method of crime data reporting.
FBI, This Week: Intellectual Property Crimes Increase
The FBI is seeing an increase in intellectual property crime ranging from the theft of trade secrets to counterfeit medication and automobile parts.
FBI, This Week: Social Engineering
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the FBI says one way to stay safe online is to recognize techniques cyber criminals use to prey on their victims.
FBI, This Week: Operation Cross Country X
An FBI-led operation targeting commercial child sex trafficking results in the recovery and rescue of 82 minors.
FBI, This Week: Statistics Released - Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, 2015
The FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted statistics show 86 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2015.
FBI, This Week: Overseas Program Expands to Face Global Cyber Threat
The FBI’s program to place cyber investigators beyond America’s borders is expanding in response to an evolving cyber threat.
FBI, This Week: Cyber Training Course for First Responders
The FBI will release training courses designed to teach the country’s local and state law enforcement about methods specifically used in cyber investigations.
FBI, This Week: The National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance Expands
The FBI is enhancing its efforts to identify complex cyber threats and mitigate existing ones through the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance, or NCFTA.
FBI, This Week: Hate Crime Statistics, 2015
The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report shows a 53 percent increase in the number of multiple-bias hate crime incidents when compared to the year before.
FBI, This Week: Preventing Identity Theft
Whether you’re shopping online or in-store this holiday shopping season, protecting your personally identifiable information can help prevent identity theft.
FBI, This Week: Marlon Jones Added to FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List
An alleged member of a Jamaican narcotics crew wanted for four homicides is the newest addition to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
FBI, This Week: Don't Be a Puppet - Pull Back the Curtain on Violent Extremism
The FBI’s Don’t Be a Puppet interactive website teaches teens how to recognize violent extremists and the tactics they use to radicalize people.
FBI, This Week: Two Men Added to FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List
Two alleged murderers in separate crimes—Robert Francis Van Wisse and Terry A.D. Strickland—are the latest additions to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
FBI, This Week: Don’t Turn a Blind Eye, Report Border Corruption to the FBI
Some public servants sworn to protect our borders are turning a blind eye and lining their pockets. The FBI’s top criminal priority is to take down these corrupt officials.
FBI, This Week: Report Border Corruption
During this busy holiday travel season and beyond, the FBI is asking those who cross our nation’s borders using airports and other ports of entry to keep an eye out for border corruption.
FBI, This Week: Highway Serial Killings Initiative
An FBI initiative targeting serial killers who have a nexus to the nation’s highways continues to grow.
FBI, This Week: Organized Retail Crime Can Create Health Dangers for Consumers
Criminal enterprises steal, repackage, and resell products to less-than-reputable retailers—and the items are often expired, contaminated, and cut with other products, creating health implications for consumers.
FBI, This Week: National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the FBI is stepping up its efforts to combat the crime at large events that can draw traffickers among the crowds.
FBI, This Week: Security—Part of Super Bowl Sunday Playbook
Security is a significant part of the game plan for Super Bowl Sunday. The FBI has been preparing for the NFL signature event in Houston, Texas for three years.
FBI, This Week: FBI Launches New Labor Trafficking Initiative
The FBI's new labor trafficking initiative educates local and state workers responsible for inspecting and licensing certain industries on how to spot indicators of the crime.
FBI, This Week: Bureau Launches FBI Wanted Mobile App
The new FBI Wanted mobile application provides the public with quick and easy access to profiles, photographs, and more about FBI wanted fugitives.
FBI, This Week: NCIC Enters its 50th Year
The National Crime Information Center, or NCIC—which provides instant and vital information to the country’s law enforcement agencies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—marks its 50th anniversary this year.
FBI, This Week: FBI-Led Task Forces Counter Threats Against Children
The FBI leads many different types of task forces across the country and beyond to eradicate the production of pornography, abductions, and sex trafficking of children.
FBI, This Week: Transnational Criminal Enterprises Ratchet Up Business E-Mail Compromise Scam
Transnational organized crime groups are becoming more brazen against U.S. companies in their use of a sophisticated scam known as business e-mail compromise, or BEC.
FBI, This Week: Seeking Tips on Top Ten Fugitive Eduardo Ravelo on Anniversary of Consulate Murders
The FBI is asking the public to report tips about Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Eduardo Ravelo regarding his involvement in three murders that happened seven years ago this month.
FBI, This Week: Be on the Lookout for Tax-Related Fraud
Tax season brings with it a spike in tax-related fraud, such as scammers trying to convince consumers to pay their taxes using iTunes and other gift cards.
FBI, This Week: Using Social Media to Engage the Public
The FBI is using its social media channels to engage with the public through online chats, live broadcasts, and more.
FBI, This Week: Prison Corruption Initiative
The FBI’s prison corruption cases have more than doubled since 2014, an increase partly attributable to the Bureau’s Prison Corruption Initiative.
FBI, This Week: Child/Adolescent Forensic Interviewers Help Young Victims
In observation of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the FBI highlights the work of child/adolescent forensic interviewers, who work to elicit accounts of crime from child victims in a sensitive and unbiased way.
FBI, This Week: Walter Yovany Gomez Added to Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List
Alleged murderer and violent MS-13 gang member Walter Yovany Gomez was arrested without incident on August 11, 2017, in Woodbridge, Virginia.
FBI, This Week: Bhadreshkumar Patel Added to Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List
A newlywed who allegedly murdered his young bride is the latest addition to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
FBI, This Week: 2016 Director’s Community Leadership Awards
The FBI honors community leaders and organizations that make extraordinary contributions to America and those who serve and protect her.
FBI, This Week: FBI Marks Milestone of Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Forces
The initiative that enabled the creation of FBI-led task forces designed to mitigate the threat from the nation’s most violent gangs marks its 25th anniversary.
FBI, This Week: National Police Week 2017
During National Police Week, Americans pause to reflect on the sacrifices of the women and men who have given their lives in the line of duty.
FBI, This Week: Preliminary Statistics for Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty in 2016 Released
FBI preliminary statistics reveal that 118 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2016, and 66 of those officers were feloniously killed.
FBI, This Week: National Missing Children’s Day
While the FBI observes National Missing Children’s Day on May 25, special agents are working every day to solve cases involving missing and exploited children.
FBI, This Week: Junior Special Agents Program
More than 200 fifth and sixth-graders from five schools in the Washington, D.C. area graduated from the Junior Special Agents program during a ceremony at FBI Headquarters on June 1, 2017.
FBI, This Week: National Academy Marks Milestone
The FBI National Academy conferred a diploma upon its 50,000th graduate in a recent commencement ceremony.
FBI, This Week: Hogan’s Alley—The “Baddest” Town in America
Hogan’s Alley is a mock town at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia that prepares new agent trainees for real life-and-death situations.
FBI, This Week: Internet Crime Complaint Center Releases Annual Report
The 2016 Internet Crime Report from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) provides details about the top trending Internet scams and associated financial losses.
FBI, This Week: FBI Launches National Use-of-Force Data Collection Pilot Study
Law enforcement’s first and only national database to collect information specifically about use-of-force launches in July with a six-month pilot study.
FBI, This Week: The FBI’s Art Crime Program
Members of the FBI’s Art Crime Team have specialized training in art and cultural property crime so they can investigate everything from museum heists to fraud and forgery matters.
FBI, This Week: Historic Nationwide Health Care Fraud Takedown
The FBI and its Medicare Fraud Strike Force partners have charged more than 400 people in the largest-ever health care fraud law enforcement operation.
FBI, This Week: AlphaBay Criminal Marketplace Takedown
An international law enforcement operation resulted in the seizure of AlphaBay, the largest criminal marketplace on the Darknet.
FBI, This Week: One-Year Anniversary of Prescription Drug Initiative
The FBI is proactively addressing the opioid epidemic through its prescription drug initiative, which was established one year ago this month.
FBI, This Week: Christopher Wray Sworn In as FBI Director
New FBI Director Christopher Wray—sworn in on August 2, 2017—pledges to be the type of leader that the FBI deserves and one who will make every American proud.
FBI, This Week: Internet-Connected Toys Pose Security Risks
The FBI cautions parents about the potential threats associated with their children’s Internet-connected toys and other devices.
FBI, This Week: Bureau Trains with Partners on Indian Country Crime
For two weeks this month, the FBI and its partners from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal law enforcement agencies will participate in specialized training on investigating crimes in Indian Country.
FBI, This Week: Operation Wellspring Expands
An initiative that brings together local, state, and federal law enforcement resources for Internet-facilitated criminal investigations is expanding.
FBI, This Week: Beware of Charity Fraud in Wake of Hurricane Harvey
The FBI reminds the public of the potential rise in charity scams that exploit people’s pockets and generosity in the aftermath of natural disasters.
FBI, This Week: Director Christopher Wray Speaks at INSA Summit
FBI Director Christopher Wray joined fellow leaders of the U.S. intelligence community at the annual Intelligence and National Security Alliance Summit on September 7 in Washington, D.C.
FBI, This Week: Bureau Provides Operational Support During Hurricanes
More than 400 FBI employees are returning to their assigned duty offices from their deployments to areas impacted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
