New York City Police Department Detective Bureau

The NYPD Detective Bureau is one of the ten bureaus that comprise the New York City Police Department and is currently headed by Bureau Chief Phil T. Pulaski.

The Detective Bureau's responsibilities include the prevention and detection of crime.

Organization

Units within the New York City Police Department Detective Bureau include the:

• Chief of the Detective Bureau - Bureau Chief Phil T. Pulaski
  • Detective Borough Commands
    • Detective Borough Brooklyn - Assistant Chief
    • Detective Borough Bronx - Assistant Chief
    • Detective Borough Manhattan - Assistant Chief
    • Detective Borough Queens - Assistant Chief
  • Central Investigation and Resource Division - Assistant Chief
    • Homicide Analysis Unit
    • Photographic Unit
    • Hostage Negotiation Team
    • Crime Stoppers Unit
    • Training Unit
  • Forensic Investigation Division - Assistant Chief
    • Bomb Squad
    • Police Laboratory
    • Ballistics Unit
    • Crime Scene Unit
    • Latent Print Unit
    • DNA Liaison Unit
  • Fugitive Enforcement Division - Assistant Chief
    • Cold Case Squad
    • Juvenile Crime Squad
    • Warrant Section
  • Special Investigation Division - Assistant Chief
    • Major Case Squad
    • Special Fraud Squad
    • Missing Persons Squad
    • Arson and Explosion Squad
    • Surveillance and Apprehension Squad
    • Joint Terrorism Task Force
    • Joint Bank Robbery Task Force
    • Joint Robbery Apprehension Team
    • Hate Crimes Task Force
  • Special Victims Division - Deputy Chief
    • Special Victims Liaison Team
    • Sex Offender Monitoring Unit
    • DNA Tracking Unit

Units

Borough Commands

Each of the four Detective Boroughs oversee all the precinct squads located within their command. The Detective Borough work closely with their counterparts in the Patrol Bureau to provide immediate investigations to crimes. Patrol Borough Staten Island is unique among the NYPD in that is serves as both a Patrol Borough command and as a quazi-Detective Borough command. The Assistant Chief of the Staten Island Patrol Borough supervises a unit of detectives, which oversees local detective squads in that borough's three precincts.

Special Victims Division

• Commanding Officer of Special Victims Division - Deputy Chief Theresa Shortell

The Special Victims Division created in 2003 oversees all the borough Special Victims Squads. The Special Victims Division is part of the Detective Bureau and investigates the following types of cases:

• Any child under 13 years of age that is the victim of any sex crime or attempted sex crime by any person.
• Any child under 11 years of age who is the victim of abuse by a parent or person legally responsible for the care of the child.
• Any victim of rape or attempted rape
• Any victim of a criminal sexual act or an attempted criminal sexual act
• Victims of aggravated sexual abuse
• Victims of sexual abuse in the first degree

Additional sub-units of the Special Victims Division are listed below:

• Sex Offenders Monitoring Unit (SOMU)-Monitors all state designated sex offenders to ensure they are in compliance.

• Special Victims Liaison Unit (SVLU)- Provides educational lectures to community and advocacy groups,schools and medical institutions concerning public as well as personal safety.

• DNA tracking unit (DNATU)- Tracks and coordinates all scientific evidence relating to investigations involving sexual assault.

Major Case Squad

• Commanding Officer of Major Case Squad - Deputy Inspector Charles Neacy

The Major Case Squad is located at One Police Plaza in Manhattan. It handles the following cases.

• Kidnappings as directed by the Chief of Detectives
• Burglary or attempted burglary of a bank or bank safe
• Larceny by extortion or attempt, from a bank
• Robbery or attempted robbery of a bank by a perpetrator not armed
• Burglary of a truck contents over $100,000
• Larceny of a truck contents over $100,000
• Robbery of a truck and contents by hijacking
• All robberies in warehouse depots or similar locations where the objects of the crime is a truck or its contents
• All commercial burglaries in which the value of the property stolen exceeds $100,000
• Art theft^[1]

Crime Scene Unit

• Commanding Officer of Crime Scene Unit - Captain John Benoit

The Crime Scene Unit (CSU) is a part of the NYPD Detective Bureau's Forensic Investigations Division, responsible for forensic investigations of all homicides and sexual assaults, as well as other crimes as deemed necessary by an investigating supervisor. Members of the Crime Scene Unit assist the precinct detectives in the processing of a crime scene as well as determining the proper routing of evidence between the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the NYPD Police Lab and the NYPD Property Clerk.

The Crime Scene Unit is composed of NYPD detectives (or occasionally police officers that are awaiting their promotion to detective), not civilian technicians like crime scene units in other parts of the U.S. Generally these detectives come from an Evidence Collection Team which is operated at the borough level.

The Crime Scene Unit covers all of the boroughs of New York City, but is staffed with less than 1% of the total number of detectives in the NYPD. These detectives are dedicated to doing what is necessary to ensure that the precinct detectives and the District Attorney have as much evidence to identify the perpetrator of the crime and convict them at trial.

The Crime Scene Unit has at its disposal many tools to process a crime scene including the materials needed to develop fingerprints, cast footwear and tire impressions, follow the trajectory of bullets fired through windows and the chemicals necessary to observe blood under special lighting conditions that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye. The unit is also trained to process a crime scene in a hazardous environment, for example following a nuclear, biological or chemical attack.

See also

	New York City portal
	New York portal
	Law enforcement/Law enforcement topics portal

• New York City Police Department
• Federal Bureau of Investigation

References

1. ^ Yarrow, Andrew L. "A Lucrative Crime Grows Into a Costly Epidemic," New York Times. March 20, 1990.