Criminal Investigation Division

The Criminal Investigations Division is responsible for investigating crimes reported in Banks County against persons and property, such as murder, assaults, rapes, juvenile crimes, child molestations, child abuse, domestic violence cases, missing persons, monitoring registered sexual offenders, arson, burglary, theft, auto-theft, forgeries, credit card theft, identity theft, counterfeit money, and other crimes against persons and property.  Approximately 1295 cases were opened and investigated during the year of 2008.

The Narcotic agents of the Criminal Investigation Division investigate all reports of sales and use of illegal drugs.

The Criminal Investigators work closely with other all County, City, State, and Federal agencies to assist in solving crimes in the area.

The investigators are involved in collecting all evidence, such as forensic evidence, latent prints, photographs, blood spatter analysis, and the collection of other trace evidence. Much of the evidence collected has to be packaged, and forwarded to the GBI Crime Lab for processing.  The investigators conduct many interviews of victims and suspects of crimes of cases assigned to them

Each Incident Report will be assigned a Case Number.  Please feel free to contact any of the Investigators at the Banks County Sheriff's Office to inquire on the status of a case or for other information at 706-677-2248. In order to better server you, refer to the Case Number when making inquiries if you have been advised of one.