
The FBI originated in 1908 as the Bureau (later the Division) of Investigation of the Justice Department. Following a reorganization in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover became the first director, and the bureau's present policies were defined. The bureau acquired its present name in 1935.
In addition to its national headquarters in Washington, D.C., the FBI maintains 58 field offices in strategic cities in the United States and Puerto Rico. It also maintains an Identification Division, established in 1924; the FBI Laboratory, founded in 1932; a training program for FBI agents; the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, established in 1935 and expanded in 1972; and a project called Uniform Crime Reporting, begun in 1930.
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