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Patel outlines plan to move FBI personnel out of Washington, expand Huntsville and CJIS footprints
Summary
FBI Director Kesh Patel told the House Appropriations subcommittee he plans to move more than 1,000 positions from the National Capital Region to field offices, is relocating several hundred staff to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, and seeks construction and operating funds to expand facilities there and in West Virginia's CJIS campus.
Director Kesh Patel told the House Appropriations Subcommittee that the FBI is moving more than 1,000 positions out of the Washington, D.C., National Capital Region and into field offices across every state to bolster violent‑crime and narcotics work in local jurisdictions.
"We are moving more than a thousand positions outside of the Washington DC area," Director Kesh Patel said, adding that roughly "11,000 ish" of the FBI's roughly 37,000 positions remain in the National Capital Region and that a redeployment of personnel is intended to put agents and analysts closer to where violent crime and…
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