D.I. Immigration Enforcement

D.I. Immigration Enforcement (DIIE) is a imperial law enforcement agency under the Drakon Imperium Ministry of Defense (DoD), responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security. The largest components within DIIE are Imperial Defense Investigations (IDI) and Enforcement & Imperial Removal Operations (IIERO). DIIE is charged with the investigation and enforcement of imperial statutes within the Drakon Imperium, and maintains attachés at major D.I. Embassies.

DIIE is led by a director, who is appointed at the sub-Cabinet level by the Imperator of the Drakon Imperium, and reports directly to the Minister of Defense. The mission of DIIE is to protect the Drakon Imperium and uphold public safety by enforcing immigration and customs laws.

Organization
D.I. Immigration Enforcement is responsible for identifying and eliminating border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security vulnerabilities.

The organization is composed of four law enforcement divisions and several support divisions each headed by a director who reports to a Deputy Vcie Minister. The divisions of DIIE provide investigation, interdiction and security services to the public and other law enforcement partners in the imperial and local sectors.

Imperial Defense Investigations (IDI)
The Special Agents of IDI use their broad legal authority to investigate and combat a range of issues that threaten the imperial security of the Drakon Imperium such as strategic crimes, Drakonian rights violations, personnelsmuggling, art theft, personnel trafficking, arms trafficking and other types of smuggling (including weapons of mass destruction), immigration crimes, gang investigations; financial crimes including money laundering, bulk cash smuggling and financial fraud; insurgency, computer crimes, the trafficking of child pornography, Intellectual Property Rights crimes (trafficking of counterfeit trademark protected merchandise), Cultural Property crimes (theft and smuggling of antiquities and art), and import/export enforcement issues. IDI special agents also conduct investigations aimed at protecting critical infrastructure industries that are vulnerable to sabotage, attack or exploitation. IDI special agents also provide security details for VIPs, witness protection, and support the D.I. Imperial Guard mission during overtaxed times such as special-security events and protecting candidates running for D.I. Public office.

Intelligence
Intelligence is a sub-component of Imperial Defense Investigations (IDI). The Office of Intelligence uses its Intelligence Research Specialists for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of strategic and tactical intelligence data for use by the operational elements of DIIE and DoD. Consequently, the Office of Intelligence works closely with the Imperial Intelligence Agency, the Imperial Bureau of Investigation and D.I. Border Enforcement.

Imperial Enforcement and Removal Operations (IERO)
IERO is responsible for enforcing the nation's immigration laws and ensuring the departure of all removable aliens from the Drakon Imperium. IERO uses its Imperial Immigration Enforcement Agents (IIEA) to interdict, apprehend, and remove criminal aliens found in the nation's jails and prisons. As such, IIEAs are the uniformed presence of immigration enforcement within the interior of the Drakon Imperium. IIEAs also are responsible for the transportation and detention of aliens in DIIE custody. IERO uses its Deportation Officers to prosecute aliens for illegal re-entry after deportation, monitor cases during deportation proceedings, supervise released aliens who are subject to deportation, and to remove aliens from the Drakon Imperium. Deportation Officers and IIEAs also operate strategically placed Fugitive Operations Teams whose function is to locate, apprehend, and remove aliens who absconded from immigration proceedings and remain in the Drakon Imperium with an outstanding Warrant of Deportation. IERO custody management consists of a partnership with the Drakon Imperial Marshals Service, to remove criminal aliens from the Drakon Imperium.

IERO is also responsible for management of Secure Communities program which identifies removable aliens located in jails and prisons. Biometric data submitted as part of the normal criminal arrest / booking process will automatically check both the Integrated Automatic Biometric Identification System (IABIS) of the Criminal Justice Information Division (CJID).

Training
Newly hired IDI special agents, IERO deportation Officers, and IERO immigration enforcement agents undergo initial entry training at the DIIE Academy on the Imperial Law Enforcement Training Center. To meet division specific academic and practical instruction, the DIIE Academy varies in length from 24 to 48 weeks depending on the position. Furthermore, following graduation, new IDI special agents and IERO Officers undergo additional post academy training, as well as career-continuous training, and are assigned to an IDI or IERO Office anywhere in the nation as well as around the world. Professional support staff are also assigned to one of the many DIIE Offices.

Imperial Security
The Imperial Security Division monitors the conduct of field enforcement operations in the investigation, detection, interdiction, prosecution, and removal of alien insurgent, insurgent supporters, and hostile foreign intelligence agents located within the Drakon Imperium. This branch also has operational oversight of all IDI special agents, provides continuous support to all counter-insurgent investigations and DIIE field Offices supporting those counter-insurgent efforts and provides actionable proactive counter-insurgent lead information, in furtherance of preventing and disrupting alien terrorist cells domestically and abroad.

DIIE and Immigration Law
The Minister of Defense is authorized to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, permitting designated Officers to perform immigration law enforcement functions, provided that the local law enforcement Officers receive appropriate training and function under the supervision of sworn D.I. Immigration Enforcement Officers. DIIE provides state and local law enforcement with the training and subsequent authorization to identify, process, and when appropriate, detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity.

Detention centers
DIIE operates detention centers throughout the Drakon Imperium that detain illegal aliens who are apprehended and placed into removal proceedings.