The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall have the power and duty to:

1. Maintain a nationally accredited scientific laboratory to assist all law enforcement agencies in the discovery and detection of criminal activity;

2. Maintain fingerprint and other identification files including criminal history records, juvenile identification files, and DNA profiles;

3. Establish, coordinate and maintain the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) and the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) laboratory;

4. Operate teletype, mobile and fixed radio or other communications systems;

5. Conduct schools and training programs for the agents, peace officers, and technicians of this state charged with the enforcement of law and order and the investigation and detection of crime;

6. Assist the Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Chief Medical Examiner, and all law enforcement officers and district attorneys when such assistance is requested, in accordance with the policy determined by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Commission established in Section 150.3 of this title;

7. Investigate and detect criminal activity when directed to do so by the Governor;

8. Investigate, detect, institute and maintain actions involving vehicle theft pursuant to Section 150.7a of this title or oil, gas or oil field equipment theft pursuant to Sections 152.2 through 152.9 of this title;

9. Investigate any criminal threat made to the physical safety of elected or appointed officials of this state or any political subdivision of the state and forward the results of that investigation to the Department of Public Safety, and provide security to foreign elected or appointed officials while they are in this state on official business;

10. Investigate and detect violations of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act;

11. Investigate and enforce all laws relating to any crime listed in Section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes that occurs on the turnpikes; and

12. Investigate and detect criminal activity involving files, records, assets, properties, buildings or employees of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Nothing in this paragraph shall limit or prevent any criminal investigation of the matter by the sheriff of the county or any law enforcement agency of competent jurisdiction.

Added by Laws 1976, c. 259, § 2, operative July 1, 1976. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 145, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984; Laws 1986, c. 201, § 8, operative July 1, 1986; Laws 1989, c. 353, § 9, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989; Laws 1990, c. 282, § 3, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 227, § 2, emerg. eff. May 23, 1991; Laws 1991, c. 335, § 31, emerg. eff. June 15, 1991; Laws 1994, c. 259, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 1996, c. 281, § 1, emerg. eff. June 5, 1996; Laws 2001, c. 261, § 1, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 351, § 1, emerg. eff. May 30, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 461, § 15, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2006, c. 303, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2015, c. 397, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2019, c. 371, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.

NOTE: Laws 1986, c. 46, § 1 repealed by Laws 1989, c. 353, § 14, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989. Laws 1991, c. 226, § 3 repealed by Laws 1991, c. 335, § 37, emerg. eff. June 15, 1991.