The Commanding Officer of the Detective Bureau is currently unknown. The Chief of Detectives is responsible for managing, supervising, and coordinating the operations of the Detective Bureau. The Assistant Commanding Officer holds the rank of Commander. The Assistant Commanding Officer assists the Chief of Detectives in coordinating the bureau's activities and will act as the Commanding Officer during the Chief's absence.
The Commercial Crimes Division CCD is responsible for investigations into frauds, computer crimes, financial crimes, and certain select burglary, theft, auto theft, and robbery crimes, as well as enforcing the rules and regulations governing pawnshops, junk dealers, and any other business handling secondhand merchandise. The division is also responsible for enforcing firearm laws and processing concealed firearm license applications.
The Juvenile Division JUV is responsible for juvenile narcotics enforcement, child abuse and child exploitation investigations, overseeing the Department's youth programs, and providing Department-wide juvenile advice, consulting, and training. Captains perform administrative duties such as reviewing correspondence, budget requests, and activity reports; and interviewing and hiring sworn and civilian personnel to their division.
Captains are promoted from the rank of Lieutenant after passing the Captain's examination and interview, and after one year of satisfactory service as a Lieutenant.
The rank of Lieutenant Lt. Lieutenants assigned to specialized divisions perform unique duties characteristic of their division. Lieutenants are promoted from the rank of Sergeant or Detective after passing the Lieutenant's examination and interview, and after two years of satisfactory service as a Sergeant or Detective. The rank of Detective is assigned to police officers who take on a specific group of specialized investigative duties, including conducting narcotics investigations, performing surveillance and establishing and maintaining contact with informants; investigating gang related crimes; responding to and investigating scenes of crime such as homicide, theft, robbery, auto theft, illegal sex related activities, and crimes committed by juveniles.
Detectives are considered specialists within the LAPD and they are normally considered to be separate from the uniformed chain-of-command. This means that the senior-most detective on the scene is permitted to take charge of an incident when it is necessary for investigative purposes, even if other higher-ranking officers are present.
Traditionally, detectives are plain-clothes officers in the field who wear their uniforms only for ceremonial and certain other official occasions. Detective III Det. A Detective III is responsible for the above described duties in addition to serving as the leader in high profile cases of major robbery, fraud and homicide.
Detective III can also be assigned as the Assistant Officer-in-Charge of a specialized investigative section or as the Officer-in-Charge of a specialized investigative unit. Detective II Det. Detective I Det. I , colloquially referred to as just "Detective", is the first detective rank available to officers if they pass their detectives exam and departmental interviews.
Sergeant II Sgt. II , colloquially referred to as just "Sergeant", is a supervisory position with specialized and administrative assignments.
Sergeant I Sgt. The GHU has specific knowledge of and experience with federal Racketeering Influence Corrupt Organization RICO prosecutions, and a great deal of experience in preparing court orders and search warrants to obtain business and telephone records related to Dialed Number Recorders DNR , cell site towers, cell phone tracking, text message retrieval, and state and federal wiretap applications.
The primary objective of SIS is to determine if a suspect s under surveillance is connected to the crime s under investigation, and, if probable cause exists to arrest, to locate and arrest the suspect s. I then transition the conversation into getting updates on their current investigations and their investigative plans to solve their cases.
Next, based on the teams of detectives' availability, I determine who is going to be on call with me during the week they get to pre-schedule what weekend they have in advance. I then usually do a series of administrative functions: completing time sheets, signing overtime slips, reviewing search warrants, court orders, etc.
But that's only the case if we didn't have a homicide overnight. When a murder occurs it is rarely during business hours; it is usually between 10pm and 3am. So, on those days, my watch officially starts when I arrive at the crime scene.
I then assess if more detectives need to be called in to start early and start handing out tasks to be completed. Some of tasks can be locating and interviewing witnesses, re-canvassing the crime scene for additional witnesses or evidence, locating and downloading surveillance footage, booking evidence, searching through criminal data bases, and meeting with other law enforcement officers, who have expertise in the area where the crime occurred.
I oversee all of this and monitor the investigative team who is assigned the case and the teams that are assisting them. I also meet with the area captain and the bureau chief and update them on the status of the case to help assist them in the assignment of uniformed officers in the area for future crime prevention and apprehension.
I also meet with gang intervention personnel and discuss the potential of retaliation because a high number of the murders in 77th division have some relationship to street gangs. The victims are not always gang members but the suspects usually are. All of this tends to make for long days and end of watch is rarely what it is scheduled to be. I am fortunate that every day is a good day on the job. I have the privilege of working with and supervising arguably the best detectives in the world.
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