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Marshalltown Police Chief Mike Tupper participates in the commemoration of 100 years of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. He spoke of the many wonderful people he had met in that agency during his law enforcement career, and wondered where Marshalltown would be without them.
DES MOINES Marshalltown Police Chief Mike Tupper joined Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday as she led a special DCI 100th Anniversary commemorative event at the Iowa Statehouse to recognize the centennial along with Special Agent In Charge and DCI100 Chairperson Adam DeCamp, Special Agent and State Senator Dan Dawson and Department of Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens.
Bonnie Parker, left, and Clyde Barrow, leaders of the notorious Barrow gang, were pursued by the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation in 1933.
DES MOINES, Iowa – On April 9, 1921, the Iowa Legislature bestowed authority in Attorney General Ben Gibson to establish the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a centralized law enforcement agency specializing in providing cost-free support to local law enforcement agencies.
From these humble beginnings, with just a handful of agents and a budget of $37,000, the bureau has grown into the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), which provides a full spectrum of criminal investigation services from investigative field operations to forensics analysis to support to the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.