Special Agent

Obtain and verify evidence by interviewing and observing suspects and witnesses or by analyzing records.

Collaborate with other offices and agencies to exchange information and coordinate activities.

Prepare reports that detail investigation findings.

Testify before grand juries concerning criminal activity investigations.

Serve subpoenas or other official papers.

Collaborate with other authorities on activities, such as surveillance, transcription, and research.

Identify case issues and evidence needed, based on analysis of charges, complaints, or allegations of law violations.

Search for and collect evidence, such as fingerprints, using investigative equipment.

Determine scope, timing, and direction of investigations.

Collect and record physical information about arrested suspects, including fingerprints, height and weight measurements, and photographs.

Record evidence and documents, using equipment such as cameras and photocopy machines.

Analyze evidence in laboratories or in the field.

Administer counterterrorism and counternarcotics reward programs.

Manage security programs designed to protect personnel, facilities, and information.

Issue security clearances.

Provide protection for individuals, such as government leaders, political candidates, and visiting foreign dignitaries.

Compare crime scene fingerprints with those from suspects or fingerprint files to identify perpetrators, using computers.

Perform undercover assignments and maintain surveillance, including monitoring authorized wiretaps.

Investigate organized crime, public corruption, financial crime, copyright infringement, civil rights violations, bank robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and other violations of federal or state statutes.

Obtain and use search and arrest warrants.

Examine records to locate links in chains of evidence or information.