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
Since its beginning, the KBI has had 12 directors.
- Lou Richter (1939â€"1956)
- Logan H. Sanford (1957â€"1969)
- Harold R. Nye (1969â€"1971)
- Fred H. Howard II (1971â€"1975)
- William H. Albott (1975â€"1979)
- Thomas E. Kelly (1979â€"1987)
- David E. Johnson (1987â€"1989)
- James G. Malson (1989â€"1992)
- Robert B. Davenport (1992â€"1994)
- Larry Welch (1994â€"2007)
- Robert E. Blecha (2007â€"2011)
- Kirk D. Thompson (2011â€"present)
Office locations
The KBI maintains offices at the following locations.
Headquarters
- Topeka
Regional offices
- Overland Park
- Great Bend
- Wichita
- Pittsburg (Southeast Kansas Drug Enforcement Taskforce)
References
External links
- Kansas Bureau of Investigation official website
- Kansas Bureau of Investigation publications at the KGI Online Library
