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Critical Incident Response Group

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They stand ready to deploy anytime, anywhere.

The FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) consists of a cadre of special agents and professional support personnel who provide expertise in crisis management, tactical operations, crisis negotiations, hostage rescue, hazardous devices mitigation, critical incident intelligence, and surveillance and aviation.

Through aggressive training programs, extensive research, state-of-the-art technologies and equipment, and far-reaching partnerships with international, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, CIRG works to successfully resolve critical incidents worldwide and achieve its mission of “Readiness, Response, and Resolution.”

Inside CIRG Spotlight On...

Organization
- Overview
- Leadership: Robert Blecksmith

News & Feature Stories
- ViCAP: 25 Years of Fighting Crime
- Highway Serial Killings Initiative
- Joint Response to Hurricane Gustav
- Crisis Negotiation and Kidnappings
- About School Shootings

- Our Response to Hurricane Katrina

 Resources & Publications
- Campus Attacks
- Serial Murder Perspectives
- School Shooter Threat Assessment (pdf)
- Workplace Violence (pdf)

Service & Capabilities
Surveillance and Aviation 
FBI Bomb Technicians: Pictures and video of their suits and other equipment
Investigations & Operations Support
- National Center for the Analysis of
_ Violent Crime (NCAVC)
 - Behavioral Analysis
-
 Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP)
  - Rapid Deployment and Logistics  
Strategic Information & Operations
- Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC)
Tactical Operations
- Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)
-
SWAT
- Crisis Negotiations
Hazardous Devices Operations
- Hazardous Devices School
- Special Agent Bomb Technicians (SABTs)
Critical Incident Intelligence