New York City Police Department Detective Bureau
| New York City Police Department Detective Bureau | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | NYPDDB |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1800s |
| Superseding agency | New York City Police Department |
| Employees | 5,000 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| General nature |
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| Operational structure | |
| Facilities | |
| Divisions | All throughout NYPD precincts |
The Detective Bureau is one of 10 bureaus that constitute the New York City Police Department and is headed by the Chief of Detectives.
The Detective Bureau's responsibilities include the prevention, detection and investigation of crime.
Each of the four Detective Boroughs oversees all the precinct squads located within its command. Members of the Detective Bureau work closely with their counterparts in the Patrol Bureau to provide immediate investigations of crimes. Patrol Borough Staten Island is unique among the patrol boroughs of NYPD in that it serves as both a Patrol Borough command and as a quasi-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 four precincts.
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 primarily investigates sex crimes, including:
Additional sub-units of the Special Victims Division are listed below:
A fictional version of the Special Victims Division called the Special Victims Unit appears in the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
The Major Case Squad – one of the eight squads, task forces and teams in the Special Investigation Division – is located at One Police Plaza in Manhattan. It handles the following cases:
The television program Law & Order: Criminal Intent features a fictional version of the Major Case Squad, which spends a majority of its time on high profile murders—an area that the real Major Case Squad does not deal with.
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 Medical Examiner's office, the NYPD Police Lab and the NYPD Property Clerk.
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