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ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT
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INVESTIGATIVE BUREAU GOAL
The Goal of the Investigative Bureau is to provide effective and efficient support services to the
Department through the following Divisions/Sections:
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Special Investigation Division
Criminal Investigations Division
The Objectives of the Investigative Bureau include:
Special Investigations Division
Identifying major drug traffickers and directing enforcement efforts at compiling prosecutable cases
against those persons, thereby, reducing the availability of illicit drugs.
Increasing vice enforcement, abatement, and the number of prosecutable arrests/cases related to
commercialized vice activities.
Maintaining and disseminating criminal information through a Criminal Intelligence Unit.
Criminal Investigations Division
Maintaining a high clearance rate of felony crimes.
Maintaining a high recovery rate of reported actual stolen vehicles.
Maintaining a high property recovery rate.
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INVESTIGATIVE BUREAU
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION (SID)
Is composed of the Career Criminal Section, and Narcotics Section.
A.
Career Criminal Section
The Section is composed of the ROP Unit, Vice Unit, Intelligence Unit, Gang
Unit, CNT/CIT, and Fugitive Detail.
1.
Intelligence Unit - Duties and Responsibilities:
Gathers, maintains, assesses, and disseminates criminal intelligence
information. The C.I.U. conducts intelligence collection that verifies
criminal activity from any source. Once establishing that a criminal
activity exists, the information will be disseminated to the
investigative unit that specializes in that particular crime. The unit
that specialized in that criminal activity will have primary
investigative responsibility to prepare a case for prosecution.
A second component to the Intelligence Unit is Technical and
Administrative Support. Duties and Responsibilities:
Provides services including utility and telephone subscriber
information, postal service inquiries, and financial asset tracking for
seizures/forfeitures on narcotics related cases.
2.
Gang Unit - Duties and Responsibilities:
The Unit will assume investigations of violent gang related crimes
where the case responsibility does not lie with another specialized
unit. The Gang Unit will assist field or specialized units in their
investigations if requested to do so.
3.
Vice Unit - Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates and assists in the prosecution of all vice related items
within the Albuquerque metro area. Serves as liaison between the
Albuquerque Police Department and all law enforcement agencies in
that are involved in vice related activities.
4.
Repeat Offenders Project - Duties and Responsibilities:
Identifies career criminals involved in multiple crimes.
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5.
CNT/CIT - Duties and Responsibilities:
Team of officers who make up the Crisis Negotiations Team and the
Crisis Intervention Team. They are on-call to handle crisis situations
that requires tactical deployment of officers and the utilization of
negotiation techniques.
6.
Fugitive Detail - Duties and Responsibilities:
Processes warrants and disseminates information in matters of
fugitive extradition and bond hearings.
B.
Narcotics Section
The Section is composed of the Valley Narcotics Unit, Eastside Narcotics
Unit, and Westside Narcotics Unit.
1.
Eastside Narcotics Team - Duties and Responsibilities:
A unit of undercover police officers assigned to do narcotics
investigations for the Southeast and Foothills Area Commands.
2.
Westside Narcotics Team - Duties and Responsibilities:
A unit of undercover police officers assigned to do narcotics
investigations for the Westside Area Command.
3.
Valley Narcotics Unit - Duties and Responsibilities:
A unit of undercover police officers assigned to do narcotics
investigations for the Valley and Northeast Area Commands. The
narcotics canine handlers are attached to this unit.
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DEA Task Force - Duties and Responsibilities:
Based on funding and manpower requests from the Drug
Enforcement Administration, members of the Narcotics Section
may be assigned to this task force. Members assigned to this task
force fall under the operational control of the DEA, but answer
administratively through the Valley Narcotics unit supervisor.
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ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT
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CRIMNAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
This Division is composed of Violent Crimes Section, Property Crimes Section,
Juvenile Section, and Administration Section.
A.
VIOLENT CRIMES DIVISION – DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The section is composed of the Sex Crimes Unit, Armed Robbery Unit,
Homicide Unit, Family Abuse and Stocking Team (FAST), Victim
Assistance Detail, and Homicide Cold Case Detail.
1.
Sex Crimes Unit - Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigate all criminal sexual penetration cases, and attempted
criminal sexual penetration cases.
2.
Family Abuse and Stalking Unit– Duties and Responsibilities
Investigates stalking cases that occur within the city of Albuquerque.
Coordinate investigative efforts with other units when necessary.
3.
Victim Assistance Detail – Duties and Responsibilities
Works in coordination with the District Attorney’s office in providing
information and services for victims/witnesses of domestic violence.
Also provides pertinent information concerning other family crises
issues, such as shelters and basic needs services.
4.
Armed Robbery Unit – Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates armed robberies in cases where the offender is not in
custody.
5.
Homicide Unit – Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates all homicides and deaths where the cause is in question.
6.
Cold Case Homicide Detail - Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates homicide cases that have been inactivated.
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B.
PROPERTY CRIMES DIVISION – DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
This section is composed of the White Collar Crimes Unit, Crime Stoppers
Detail, Auto Theft Unit, Burglary Unit, Pawn Shop Detail, and Wrecker
Services Unit.
1.
White Collar Crimes Unit – Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigate of all crimes of deception, con games, forgery, fraud, and
embezzlement.
2.
Crime Stoppers Detail - Duties and Responsibilities:
Coordinates a cash reward program for citizens who call with leads on
major crime offenders, reporting directly to the Deputy Chief of
Police of ISB.
3.
Auto Theft Unit – Duties and Responsibilities:
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c.
4.
Auto Theft Investigations Unit - Investigate auto thefts and is
on-call to assist Field Services units.
Community Auto Theft Team (CATT) conducts inspections
of the following:
1)
Auto dealers
2)
Towing companies
3)
Auto dismantler/salvage yards
4)
Auto crushers/shredders
5)
"Chop Shops" commercial auto theft operations
6)
Auto title frauds and title companies
Wrecker Services Unit is responsible for administering the
City of Albuquerque (COA) Wrecker Services Ordinance
for tow companies meeting requirements for inclusion on
the COA tow rotation.
Burglary Unit – Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates all residential and commercial burglaries, recovers stolen
property, and identifies, apprehends, and assists in the prosecution of
burglary crime offenders. Assist area command detectives on auto
burglary investigations when their expertise is needed.
5.
Pawn Shop Detail – Duties and Responsibilities
Monitors, coordinates, and investigates pawn and/or pawnbroker
activities occurring in the city.
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C.
JUVENILE SECTION – DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Section is composed of CACU, GREAT/School Resource Officers, High
School Detectives, and Missing Persons and Child Exploitation Detail.
1.
Crimes Against Children Unit (CACU) - Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates cases of physical and sexual abuse that are referred by the
Department of Human Services.
2.
Child Exploitation Detail - Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates cases of child exploitation to include: pornography, child
prostitution,
abduction
of
children,
criminal
sexual
penetration/contact of a minor, pedophiles, and indecent exposure
involving children under the age of 13.
3.
GREAT/School Resource Officers (SRO)
School Resource Officers are assigned to middle schools within the
city. SRO's are responsible for working in the schools to teach and
encourage students to avoid drug and alcohol abuse.
4.
Missing Persons - Duties and Responsibilities:
Investigates reports of missing persons.
D.
ADMINISTRATION SECTION – DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Word Processing
Types the majority of the documents that are produced by detectives and
other personnel of the Criminal Investigations Division.
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