Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

investigators assigned to the DIU, the sergeant also would be responsible for coordinating with centralized CID, with the evidence technicians who process crime scenes, and with the Criminalistics Laboratory. In addition, the investigative sergeant would be responsible for maintaining a list of outstanding Raimey warrants in the district, keeping patrol officers, CRT officers, and the PSOs informed about who is wanted in the district and for what crimes. Once this system is established, the DIUs can function as a training ground and career path for Department investigators with police officers who have worked with the DIUs becoming DIU investigators and experienced DIU investigators eventually moving to centralized units and homicide cases. The Department should establish a one-or-two-day basic investigations course of training for pohce officers who will be working with the DIUs. The course would familiarize the trainees with DIU procedures, basic interviewing techniques, collecting and managing evidence and case management. A sample DIU case management system, that can be adjusted for use in Oakland and adapted to Oakland computer systems and databases, is attached to this report. Investigating Cases and Managing Evidence The DIUs would respond to crime scenes, interview victims, canvass for witnesses, and gather evidence. They would work at identifying crime patterns, modus operandi, and repeat criminals active in the district. As mentioned above, it is hoped that the robbery and burglary units could sometimes be supplemented by CRT officers and also by problem solving officers whose beats are subject to robbery and burglary patterns, without violating either the spirit or the letter of Measure Y. The DIU supervisor would review all cases for solvability factors, close some cases without further investigation, and prioritize cases for investigators in each specialty area. Although some cases would be closed, the DlU's swift response to crime scenes and the more timely interviewing of victims and witnesses would likely identify significantly more cases with workable leads than the centralized units have The Bratton Group, LLC 7