What Is The Evolution Of The Georgia Bureau Of Investigation

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History: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation as we know it today has changed and evolved over time which has only been to make the GBI better and more effective in its operations. Before 1937 there was no state regulated law enforcement agency. It was established by Governor E. D. Rivers request in 1937, however, upon its initial establishment, it was known as Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS). In the beginning, it had two different divisions. One division within the (DPS) was the uniform division known as the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) while the other division consisted of a plain clothes division which was established as the Division of Criminal Identification, Detection, Prevention, and Investigation. Later these two divisions separate …show more content…

Governor Jimmy Carter began a study that would improve the organization of the GBI. This was because the overall Public Safety agency would have significant changes from the Department Reorganization Act. It was not until 1974 that the Reorganization Act was implemented. By implementing the act it permitted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to become its own entity by making it a separate state department from GSP. In doing this the GBI was renamed to the Department of Investigation. Interestingly this name only stuck for a year and was changed back to Georgia Bureau of …show more content…

It was initially intended for current Ku Klux Klan that had resurfaced. Creating the Antiterrorism Task Force (ATTF). When 2001 new terrorism issues became a problem. There was not as much fear for people who lived in the United States, I was of the foreign threats based on the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Out of this came the Georgia Homeland Security Task Force (GHSTF) which Governor Roy Barns created in 2002. Furthermore, when Governor Sonny Perdue was elected not long he created and Executive Cabinet Position for Homeland Security Director. GBI was asked to participate and create a program to help. The result was the creation of the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center (GISAC). Later in 2007 a system was invented known as Georgia Application Processing Services (GAPS) that would provide an end-to-end solution when dealing with fingerprints (GBI,