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 Ill STAT. 1898 PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT. —The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1585 the following new item: "1585a. Special agents of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service: authority to execute warrants and make arrests.". 10 USC 113 note. SEC. 1072. STUDY OF INVESTIGATIVE PRACTICES OF MILITARY CRIMI- NAL INVESTIGATIVE ORGANIZATIONS RELATING TO SEX CRIMES. (a) INDEPENDENT STUDY REQUIRED. —(1) The Secretary of Defense shall provide for an independent study of the policies, procedures, and practices of the military criminal investigative organizations for the conduct of investigations of complaints of sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct arising in the Armed Forces. (2) The Secretary shall provide for the study to be conducted by the National Academy of Public Administration. The amount of a contract for the study may not exceed $2,000,000. (3) The Secretary shall require that all components of the Department of Defense cooperate fully with the organization carry- ing out the study. (b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED IN STUDY.— The Secretary shall require that the organization conducting the study under this section specifically consider each of the following matters: (1) The need (if any) for greater organizational independence and autonomy for the military criminal investigative organizations than exists under current chain-of-command structures within the military departments. (2) The authority of each of the military criminal investigative organizations to investigate allegations of sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct and the policies of those organizations for carrying out such investigations. (3) The training (including training in skills and techniques related to the conduct of interviews) provided by each of those organizations to agents or prospective agents responsible for conducting or providing support to investigations of alleged sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct, including— (A) the extent to which that training is comparable to the training provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other civilian law enforcement agencies; and (B) the coordination of training and investigative policies related to alleged sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct of each of those organizations with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other civilian Federal law enforcement agencies. (4) The procedures and relevant professional standards of each military criminal investigative organization with regard to recruitment and hiring of agents, including an evaluation of the extent to which those procedures and standards provide for— (A) sufficient screening of prospective agents based on background investigations; and (B) obtaining sufficient information about the qualifications and relevant experience of prospective agents. (5) The advantages and disadvantages of establishing, within each of the military criminal investigative organizations or within the Defense Criminal Investigative Service only, a

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