The requirements to join NCIS are you have to be 21 to 37 years of are a natural born citizen. You are required to take a polygraph test as well as a drug test. If you pass both tests they then do a background check if everything comes back good you would then be sent to the NCIS training Center FLETC at Glynco, Georgia. The course is 15 weeks in duration and includes the nine-week Basic Criminal Investigator’s Course, and a six-week NCIS add-on. Once you have completed your training you would then be sent to the field where you would receive eight additional hours of training a month to serve as a refresher course introducing special agents to new methods and procedures. The NCIS currently maintains more than 80 in-service training modules on subjects such as death investigations, rape investigations, victim sensitivity, blood borne pathogens, profiling child molesters, interviewing child victims of sexual assault, crime scene processing, cooperating witnesses, hostage survival, domestic security, unarmed self defense, search and seizure, and critical incident stress debriefing.
Once you’ve entered the field you will be a general agent working closely with an experienced agent for several years until finally choosing a specific field such as General Criminal Investigations, Procurement Fraud Investigations, Foreign Counterintelligence, or Technical Services, which includes technical surveillance countermeasures specialists and polygraph examiners each of the four fields have their own special training to qualify for them.
To excel in NCIS you would have to take other training courses and pass all of you performance reviews with high standers as well as meet your advancement year qualifications. As well as qualify with your fire arms twice a year to remain in the field. NCIS requires every agent to maintain a security clearance in order to work for them.
NCIS primary mission areas are counter terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber investigation, felony investigation and security policy. NCIS uses counter terrorism to protect the navy and Marine Corps installation and ships from extreme radicals. By using the intelligence gathered set up protective services and performs physical security assessments of military installations and related facilities -- including ports, airfields, and exercise areas to which naval expeditionary forces deploy. The agency conducts counterintelligence to prevent potential or suspected acts of espionage, sabotage, assassination, and defection. NCIS tries to counter foreign intelligence services and foreign commercial activities seeking information about critical naval programs and research, development, test and evaluation facilities to prevent the compromise of military technology. Their felony investigative services investigate all felonies with a sentence of one year or greater involving any member of the navy or marine corps.
NCIS is a federal law enforcement agency that being said as long as there are naval and Marine Corps personal the field will always be there. NCIS is a hard agency to get on with and with only 1,500 personnel currently employed by the agency it’s not the largest federal agency. They are very selective when it comes to applicants. NCIS is not accepting any applications for special agent at the moment. The agency still handles all types of crime to include murder, rape, arson, espionage, and many other felony investigations.