Federal government to build new FBI field office in KC’s Northland

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is constructing a brand new subject workplace in Kansas Metropolis’s Northland for greater than 300 brokers.

The company mentioned extra space will assist brokers work with their expanded regulation enforcement obligations.

The federal authorities will spend greater than $102 million over 20 years to lease practically 137,000 sq. toes of workplace area alongside Interstate 29.

Positioned in between the Kansas Metropolis Police Division’s North Patrol Division and a Kansas Metropolis hearth station, the brand new subject workplace can be house to greater than 300 brokers and job power officers who’ve seen their regulation enforcement roles develop within the final quarter century.

“I feel it has enormously developed from our give attention to terrorism to our now, mission give attention to cyber crimes and cyber nationwide safety issues, in addition to counterintelligence,” mentioned Charles Dayoub, particular agent accountable for Kansas Metropolis’s FBI subject workplace.

“I feel the world is method completely different than it was again over 20 years in the past once we first constructed our constructing,” he mentioned. “I feel now with these new capabilities, we can have a constructing to match what we have to do operationally.”

The FBI additionally hopes to serve the Northland neighborhood higher at its new location. The company already has a Regional Laptop Forensic Laboratory established within the Northland.

FBI brokers are anticipated to maneuver into the brand new subject workplace from their present downtown location in fall 2023.