In what appears to be a first for the FBI, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Monday that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will serve as co-deputy director of the agency after a rift arose last month with Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

The move represents “one of the largest per capita infusions of full-time agents and intel personnel in the nation,” which will increase the agency’s violent crime fighting capabilities, Schmitt’s off

Bailey will now serve alongside Bongino in the number-two role, Patel and Bondi confirmed to Fox News Digital, which first broke the story. Bongino, who was appointed as the FBI’s sole deputy director earlier this year, shocked colleagues in July when he largely isolated himself from internal operations following the Epstein files dispute.

The city will soon receive one of the largest per capita infusions of full-time agents and intel personnel in the nation.