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Structure
General Directorate
Is responsible for directing and coordinating all the overall activities of the OIJ.
General Secretariat
Coordinates everything related to the budgetary system of transport and radio; assigns the distribution of researchers in different sections.
Criminal Investigations Department
It is responsible for search and collect all tests necessary and to make inquiries relevant to the proper clarification of the case. It is composed of:
Crimes
Frauds
Economic and Financial Crimes
Narcotics
Homicides
Against property
Division Thefts
Division of Assaults and Theft vehicles Operational Support Unit
Section Juvenile
Speculation in Transit
Various Crimes
Kidnappings Unit
Sexual Crimes
Family and Against Life
Receive Complaints
Prison and Transportations
Police Service Immediate Intervention (SPII)
Plans and Operations
Research Background Screeners
Armory
Museum Criminology is located in the building of the OIJ in the First Judicial Circuit of San Jose.
Department of Legal Medicine
Its primary function is to carry out the autopsies, reconnaissance, and other examinations in respective cases that require it. Evacuate medical consultations forensics applied to the Agency.
It is composed of different sections:
Clinic Medical
Forensic Pathology
Psychiatry and Psychology
Forensic Medicine Labor
Criminal Objectives Deposit
Criminal Museum
Canine Unit
Account in addition to the Chair in medicine of University of Costa Rica as a teacher. And the Medico-Legal Council and believes that rules on medico-legal aspects that occurred in judicial proceedings when requested by the court. The Department of Forensic Medicine is at the Forensic Complex, San Joaquín de Flores, Heredia.
Forensic Science Laboratory
Technically analyzes each of the evidence gathered during investigations. What are the following sections:
Analysis and structure of dubious documents
Forensic biology
Biochemistry
Photo and video
Physical skills
Ballistics
Analytical chemistry
Toxicology
Transit
Planimetry
Located at the Forensic Complex, San Joaquín de Flores, Heredia.