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Basically, for retention purposes there are three categories of IG cases:

(1) Bookfiled complaints - no investigation conducted, complaint simply entered into system for information only - destroy after two years;

(2) Routine Investigation tasked by NAVINSGEN - keep locally as long as anything is pending (OSC, EEO, etc.) and destroy field copy after 2 years from closing.  The official record maintained at NAVINSGEN will be kept for 2 years and will then be sent to the Washington National Records Center (Federal Record Center) where it will be destroyed after 10 years; and,

(3) Historically significant cases - offered to the Naval Historical Center 10 years after closing.  If the NHC accepts the case, it will transfer the record to NARA 50 years after closing.  If the record is not accepted by the NHC, it will be shipped to WNRC after 10 years and will, subsequently, after 25 years, be transferred to NARA.

IG records generated locally, not tasked by NAVINSGEN, maintain types 1 and 2 consistent with above, i.e., bookfiled - destroy after 2 years; routine- ship to a federal record center after 2 years with a "destroy" order after 10 years from closing.  Historically significant IG investigation records, even those not tasked by NAVINSGEN, should be sent to NAVINSGEN 2 years after closing.  NAVINSGENS will ship all historical cases for permanent retention,  will help historians in the future.