DCI is a specialized agency with three different investigative branches.

Chief superintendents usually command divisions, while detective chief superintendents head the various investigative branches.

A report released this week by the General Accounting Office, an investigative branch of Congress, said such estimates were difficult to confirm.

In Colorado, for instance, the Department of Revenue has its own investigative branch, as do many of the state funded universities.

Six years with a major defense contractor had brought her into brief contact with inspectors from several different investigative branches.

The Bureau was formed in 1997 from other small investigative branches around the country.

But Greg Jackson, a special agent in charge of the service's investigative branch, said he thought that the department would list the beluga as endangered.

As part of the investigative branch of my department, I was required to learn it.

It created a new office headed by the Director of the F.B.I. to improve coordination among the department's investigative branches.

"You used to work for the investigative branch of the old democracy."