Criminal Investigator

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR
PUBLIC SAFETY
DEER LODGE, MT

The Montana Department of Corrections (DOC) is creating a safer Montana through Accountability, Rehabilitation and Empowerment. If you want to work making positive changes in your community, the Montana Department of Corrections is the place for you!

The Public Safety Division operates Montana’s prisons safely and securely and provides supervision and support for offenders in the community through its Probation and Parole Bureau. The work performed in this division is integral to the department’s mission to create a safer Montana through accountability, rehabilitation, and empowerment. Make a difference! Join us today!

The Criminal Investigator works closely with Office of Investigations’ Investigators, Intelligence Analyst, and Intelligence Research Specialists to conduct a variety of investigations and to gather intelligence within the Montana Department of Corrections (DOC), and its contract facilities. The types of cases investigated can be either criminal or administrative and may involve violations of facility or departmental rules, regulations, policies, or violations of law on the part of prisoners, staff, or visitors.

The Criminal Investigator will primarily conduct investigations within state owned or contracted correctional facilities across the state, with most of those investigations occurring at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. These investigations include the crimes of murder, aggravated assault, sexual assault, illegal use of drugs, introduction of contraband, robbery, theft, arson, and fraud.