Kansas Bureau Of Investigation - Kbi Kansas

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is the criminal investigative arm of the state of Kansas. The agency is a division of the state's Attorney General. Among the KBI's responsibilities are providing investigative and criminal laboratory services to criminal justice agencies, as well as investigating and preventing crime in the state of Kansas. Kirk Thompson is the current director of the KBI.

The KBI has 72 special agents and 181 civilian employees.

The KBI was the primary agency involved in the murder investigation chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as well as confirming the identity of the BTK Killer in Wichita.

Directors

KBI lab at Washburn the result of creative partnership. Source : admin.ks.gov

Since its beginning, the KBI has had 12 directors.

1. Lou Richter (1939â€"1956)
2. Logan H. Sanford (1957â€"1969)
3. Harold R. Nye (1969â€"1971)
4. Fred H. Howard II (1971â€"1975)
5. William H. Albott (1975â€"1979)
6. Thomas E. Kelly (1979â€"1987)
7. David E. Johnson (1987â€"1989)
8. James G. Malson (1989â€"1992)
9. Robert B. Davenport (1992â€"1994)
10. Larry Welch (1994â€"2007)
11. Robert E. Blecha (2007â€"2011)
12. Kirk D. Thompson (2011â€"present)

Office locations

Slot machine - Kansas Memory - Kansas Historical Society. Source : www.kshs.org

The KBI maintains offices at the following locations.

Headquarters

• Topeka

Regional offices

• Overland Park
• Great Bend
• Wichita
• Pittsburg (Southeast Kansas Drug Enforcement Taskforce)

References

SAKI - Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. Source : www.sakitta.org

External links

KBI crime lab, built by McCownGordon, opens in Topeka - Kansas .... Source : www.bizjournals.com

• Kansas Bureau of Investigation official website
• Kansas Bureau of Investigation publications at the KGI Online Library

KBI - Kansas Bureau of Investigation - Public Information. Source : www.accesskansas.org