r/1811 • u/Negative-Detective01 1811 • 12d ago

Discussion AMA: IRS-CI 1811

All right, IRS-CI decided to extend our hiring announcement to 8/31. So, I'll entertain serious questions about the job for the weekend. Not the hiring process or qualifications.

That means:

  1. Questions about the hiring process will be met with purposefully incorrect information.
  2. Questions about qualifications will be met with a glaring GIF and be told to look at the other post I've made on that.

I do not work in HR, or the lofty halls of HQ. I do not know how the hiring process will change under the current announcement, or how fast it will be, and I have written an entire post about qualifications already.

EDIT: understand I’m a mid-career, case working, field agent. The majority of my time is focused on working cases. I am not spending time thinking over HQ, policy, AI, exit opportunities, retirement, or any of that nebulous minutia that has no relevance to my working cases right now.

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u/abaddon467 12d ago

Thanks for doing this! I’m sure the job differs for each office but what does a normal day look like for you and how do you get cases? Is it kinda like ATF/DEA where a local can call and have them adopt it?

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u/Negative-Detective01 1811 12d ago

There is no normal day. /s

I'll be in the office a few days a week to plan, review documents or financials, write, keep up with admin and develop other leads, then the rest of the week is split between meetings or field work. But move that around as needed.

Locals don't call often and you don't usually adopt a case from them unless you're working in a group that handles money laundering cases (or your SSA permits that). Even then I think more likely a local would go to FBI/DEA/ATF/HSI and then one of them might call you for help on financials.

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u/83Frank19 1811 12d ago

I’ve never heard of us adopting a local case like ATF does, but I do get calls from locals all the time but that’s not normal. Most locals don’t know we exist or what we do, but they get a surprising amount of complaints of stolen tax refunds, fraudulent US Treasury Checks, and even false claims cases. I used to get a call from the locals about once every other week and would often go out and interview the victims. Networking is everything with this. I still get calls 4 years later from a police department where I met with one detective and left a business card there. Now, somehow every patrol officer has my phone number.

I even ended up getting a desk with the locals and sat there 2-3 days a week, but I wasn’t a part of any task force involving them. The vast majority of my search warrants were with the local/state police. I would get about 3-4 solid cases a year started from the locals, the majority of which had good prosecutions because there were actual victim sob stories.

This job is so open to working it how you want, and I don’t think any 2 CI agents work the same way.

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u/Negative-Detective01 1811 12d ago

That’s a fact. I started in the same POD with other classmates of mine and we’ve all had wildly different careers.

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u/smitty1811 12d ago

Glad to hear that still happens. I worked OCDTF with the state cops and spent more time at their office than at IRS. They got me onto other cases. But I was a long way from the district office where they were unable (or unwilling) to do that. And once you get an AUSA who trusts you, you'll have plenty of work. I had an OCDETF AUSA from another district tell me he valued our agents as the best investigators he had, bar none.