{"id":49424,"date":"2021-09-17T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/09\/17\/civilian-boss-takes-charge-of-army-cid-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:07:15","slug":"civilian-boss-takes-charge-of-army-cid-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/09\/17\/civilian-boss-takes-charge-of-army-cid-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian boss takes charge of Army CID for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Special Agent Gregory Ford became the first civilian director of the Army\u2019s Criminal Investigation Command, better known by its older acronym CID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ford\u2019s ascension to CID director was marked during a Pentagon ceremony Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ford, who has more than 20 years of experience in local and federal law enforcement, is the first civilian special agent serving as director since the establishment of CID as a major command post in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He served more than 16 years with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and has previously worked on the FBI Terrorism Task Force out of the Washington D.C. field office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appointment of a civilian special agent as director comes on the heels of controversy<\/a> \u2014 notably the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee\u2019s inquiry<\/a> that was prompted by the April 2020 murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillen at the Texas installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 152-page report, released Dec. 8 2020, found that the Fort Hood CID detachment was staffed with overworked and inexperienced agents, leading to mistakes in high-profile investigations like Guillen\u2019s, as well as lesser known criminal cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\t