1 Does not include $1,100,000 supplemental request to cover premium overtime ray benefits payable to investirative personnel un ler sc. 208 (a) of Public Law 753, approved Sept. 1, 1954 (fringe-benefits law). 2 Incl 1 les $4,500,000 to cover premium overtime pay benefits payable to investigative personnel under sec. 208 (a) of Public Law 763, approved Sept. 1, 1954 (fringe-benefits law).

COST OF PENATY MAIL, PUBLIC LAW 286, 83D CONGRESS, APPROVED AUGUST 15, 1953

1. Estimated cost:

Fiscal year 1955-

Fiscal year 1956---

$450,000 450,000

2. Funds not provided to defray such costs in appropriation for fiscal year 1955: (a) Bureau required to absorb such costs without requesting additional funds.

(b) Objects of expenditures where such absorption will be effected not now discernible, will be determined as experience during fiscal year indicates.

3. Cost included in 1956 request.

4. Every economy being exercised to keep costs to absolute minimum.

COST OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES GROUP LIFE INSURANCE ACT OF 1954, SECTION 5 (B), PUBLIC LAW 598, 83D CONGRESS, APPROVED AUGUST 17, 1954

1. Estimated cost (based on civil-service regulation issued pursuant to section 5 (b) of Public law 598, requiring contribution equal to one-half the amount withheld from employee's salary, payable from employing agency's appropriation):

Fiscal year 1955.

Fiscal year 1956_

$188,000 231,000

2. Funds not provided to defray these costs in appropriation for fiscal year 1955 or in request for fiscal year 1956:

(a) Budget Bureau requiring all agencies to absorb these costs without requesting additional funds.

(b) Impossible to determine at this time objects of expenditures where such absorption will be effected.

COST OF PREMIUM OVERTIME PAY, SECTION 208 (A), PUBLIC LAW 763 (FRINGE BENEFITS LAW), 83D CONGRESS, APPROVED SEPTEMBER 1, 1954

1. Provides for payment of up to 15 percent of entrance salary of grade GS-9 ($5,060 per annum) as a salary differential to employees whose duties require unscheduled and uncontrolled overtime upon approval by head of agency and under regulations of Civil Service Commission.

2. Attorney General has approved submission of request for funds for fiscal year 1955 and fiscal year 1956 providing for payment to special agent staff of Federal Bureau of Investigation at maximum rate of 15 percent.

3. No funds provided by Congress to meet this cost in either fiscal years 1955 or 1956.

4. Fiscal year 1955: Supplemental appropriation requested to provide funds to meet cost as follows: Budget Bureau approved submission of supplemental request in amount of $1,100,000 based on such benefits being paid starting April 1, 1955, inasmuch as Budget Bureau felt this was earliest date funds could be appropriated. This Bureau had requested $1,155,000.

5. Fiscal year 1956: Budget Bureau approved the inclusion of an amount of $4,500,000 in the pending appropriation request for the fiscal year 1956 for premium overtime pay. This Bureau had requested $4,617,500.

BASIC STATUTORY AUTHORITY

The fundamental authority for its basic original functions was vested in the Federal Bureau of Investigation pursuant to the following legislation:

Authority for the activities of the Bureau is contained in section 360 of the Revised Statutes, derived from sixteenth Statutes, page 164, an act to establish the Department of Justice, dated June 22, 1870. Section 360 reads in part, as follows: ***The Attorney General may require any solicitor or officer of the Department of Justice to perform any duty required of the Department thereof."

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Section 361 of the Revised Statutes further bestows authority upon the Attorney General to direct any of the divisions, heads, or departments under the Department of Justice to perform any duties which he shall direct; and, in the appropriation act for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1872 (16 Stat. 497), an appropriation was provided for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States.

Title 18, section 3052, United States Code (formerly sec. 300A of title 5, United States Code), as amended January 10, 1951, by Public Law No. 915, provides that "* * * The Director, Associate Director, assistant to the Director, Assistant Directors, inspectors, and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice may carry firearms, serve warrants and subpenas issued under the authority of the United States, and make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony."

Under authority contained in Fifth United States Code, section 340, supplement IV, there was established under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice a division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be known as the Division of Identification and Information. Pursuant thereto, the Bureau shall be vested with the duty of acquiring, collecting, classifying, and preserving criminal identification and other crime records and the exchange of said criminal identification records with the duly authorized officials of governmental agencies, of States, cities, and penal institutions; and the cost, maintenance, and operation of said Bureau shall be paid from the appropriation "Detection and prosecution of crimes" for the respective fiscal years concerned, as otherwise provided.

The FBI, as the investigative arm of the Department of Justice, has also been vested with subsequent authority for certain auxiliary specific and general investigative responsibilities by the Congress, the Attorney General, and the President of the United States. Many of these responsibilities play a direct part in defense matters affecting the Nation's security. Specific authority therefor is set forth under the immediately following section designated "objectives."

Returns to taxpayers versus funds available.-As a result of FBI investigative efforts during the fiscal year 1954, an amount of $82,283,130 was returned to taxpayers in the form of fines, savings, recoveries, and Renegotiation Act claims adjusted in favor of the Government. This amount exceeds by $5,291,588 the total expenditures made from funds appropriated to the Bureau during the same period.

Disposition of FBI cases brought to trial-Summary comparison fiscal year 1953 versus 1954

1. It has been estimated that savings in trial and auxiliary court costs resulting from a guilty plea amount to $2,873.86 per case.

(a) Based on a total of 9,594 guilty pleas entered in FBI cases during the fiscal year 1954, an estimated aggregate savings accrued to the Government of $27,571,812.84.

Such savings would not otherwise have been realized, had it not been for the excellent investigative work performed by FBI agents.

Summary of statistics for the 1954 fiscal year—Continued

The FBI Identification Division was established July 1, 1924. Its fingerprint files are international in scope and serve as a central respository for all fingerprint records. During the 31-year period following its inception, the collection has increased more than 166 times.

On April 1, 1955, fingerprints in possession numbered 134,846,297, representing receipts from some 12,636 contributors throughout the world. The number of fugitives on whom wanted notices were posted totaled 83,567. The effectiveness of centralized pooling is indicated by the fact that during the past fiscal year 12,522 fugitives were identified by fingerprint searches through FBI files. Police record identifications were made in 1,110,723 instances, representing 72.5 percent of all prints submitted in this category-an alltime high. The criminal files now contain the records of approximately 1 out of every 15 individuals in the United States who have been arrested and fingerprinted. However, the noncriminal files currently account for more than 80 percent of the total fingerprint cards in possession.

The continued unfavorable trend of international events forecasts no decrease in identification functions. During the fiscal year 1954, the Bureau received for handling 4,892,566 sets of fingerprints, a daily average of 19,262. It is estimated the fingerprint records to be referred during the fiscal years 1955 and 1956 will exceed the actual 1954 level by 6.9 percent. These estimates are predicated substantially upon workload figures furnished by various Government agencies for whom such work will be performed.

The cooperative functions rendered by the Identification Division, whether viewed from their security, criminal or humanitarian aspects, have been of invaluable assistance to local law enforcement organizations and the Nation as a whole :

1. The service has been of considerable aid to military authorities in locating deserters from the Armed Forces.

2. It has assisted in the security control of aliens through fingerprint "screening" of: (a) displaced persons; (b) immigrants; (c) applicants for citizenship; (d) alien crewmen; (e) Mexican border crossings.

3. Has assisted in the elimination of potential security risks from access to federal employment: (a) disloyal or subversive elements; (b) murderers, thieves and other criminally infamous persons; (c) mental cases; (d) drug addicts; (e) sex deviates.

4. Has removed potential security threats to vital atomic energy facilities and other strategic defense industries.

5. Has curtailed penetration by undesirables and others whose employment was not consistent with the interests of the national security.

6. Has promoted the cause of criminal justice through the restriction and control of migratory criminal activities.