Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

technicians have processed hundreds of burglary scenes and recovered prints that may be of value at many of them, yet there is currently no concerted effort to use this evidence to identify pattern burglars active throughout the city. The Bratton Group team envisages burglary investigators in each of the five districts who would begin to identify pattern burglars and who would manage the flow of the most important and promising fingerprint evidence for analysis by Criminalistics. District Investigation Units The Bratton Group team proposes that each of the five districts be staffed with a District Investigative Unit (DIU) comprising an investigative sergeant, three experienced investigators, and three to five police officers. The sergeant would be responsible for assigning all cases and overseeing all investigations. Each of the investigators would be assigned to focus on one of three specialty areas: robbery, burglary or shootings/assaults. Each of the experienced investigators would have one to two police officers working with them in their specialty areas. When possible, the sergeant and the investigators might also enlist the District CRT and the District PSOs to assist with case investigations or in case-related operations. The officers assigned to the DIU would work staggered hours that would ensure a working presence for the DIU in the afternoons and evenings seven days a week. Although each DIU would establish specialty teams for robbery, burglary, and assault, the investigators and officers from these separate teams would cover for each other in the event of a breaking crime, when no team members specializing in that crime are available, and would do the preliminary investigative work on the case. Preliminary investigations done by other than the designated robbery, burglary or assault investigators would be documented on Investigative Action Reports (lARs) and passed on to the specialist investigator as soon as possible. The investigative sergeant in each district would serve as the point person for all investigative activity in the district, reporting to the district captain and representing district investigations at the CompStat meetings. Working with the The Bratton Group, LLC 6