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Job Description
Conduct investigations to prevent crimes or solve criminal cases.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 33-3021.01
Also Known As…
- Police Detective
- Narcotics Investigator
- Narcotics Detective
- Investigator
- Fugitive Investigator
- Fugitive Detective
- Detective Sergeant
- Detective
- Criminal Investigator
- Agent
- Victim Witness Administrator
- Vice Investigator
- Station Detective
- Sheriff's Detective
- Sex Crimes Detective
- Sergeant
- Police Investigator
- Narcotics and/or Vice Detective
- Internal Affairs Investigator
- Homicide Investigator
- Drug Enforcement Agent
- Detective Supervisor
- City Detective
- Burglary Investigator
Tasks for “Police Detectives”
- Coordinate with outside agencies and serve on interagency task forces to combat specific types of crime.
- Prepare charges or responses to charges, or information for court cases, according to formalized procedures.
- Provide information to lab personnel concerning the source of an item of evidence and tests to be performed.
- Organize scene search, assigning specific tasks and areas of search to individual officers and obtaining adequate lighting as necessary.
- Check victims for signs of life, such as breathing and pulse.
- Prepare and serve search and arrest warrants.
- Summon medical help for injured individuals and alert medical personnel to take statements from them.
- Note relevant details upon arrival at scene, such as time of day and weather conditions.
- Monitor conditions of victims who are unconscious so that arrangements can be made to take statements if consciousness is regained.
- Secure deceased body and obtain evidence from it, preventing bystanders from tampering with it prior to medical examiner's arrival.
- Question individuals or observe persons and establishments to confirm information given to patrol officers.
- Take photographs from all angles of relevant parts of a crime scene, including entrance and exit routes and streets and intersections.
- Analyze completed police reports to determine what additional information and investigative work is needed.
- Provide testimony as a witness in court.
- Examine records and governmental agency files to find identifying data about suspects.
- Observe and photograph narcotic purchase transactions to compile evidence and protect undercover investigators.
- Preserve, process, and analyze items of evidence obtained from crime scenes and suspects, placing them in proper containers and destroying evidence no longer needed.
- Schedule polygraph tests for consenting parties and record results of test interpretations for presentation with findings.
- Obtain facts or statements from complainants, witnesses, and accused persons and record interviews, using recording device.
- Secure persons at scene, keeping witnesses from conversing or leaving the scene before investigators arrive.
- Record progress of investigation, maintain informational files on suspects, and submit reports to commanding officer or magistrate to authorize warrants.
- Maintain surveillance of establishments to obtain identifying information on suspects.
- Notify command of situation and request assistance.
- Obtain evidence from suspects.
- Participate or assist in raids and arrests.
- Examine crime scenes to obtain clues and evidence, such as loose hairs, fibers, clothing, or weapons.
- Videotape scenes where possible, including collection of evidence, examination of victim at scene, and defendants and witnesses.
- Obtain summary of incident from officer in charge at crime scene, taking care to avoid disturbing evidence.
- Notify, or request notification of, medical examiner or district attorney representative.
- Block or rope off scene and check perimeter to ensure that entire scene is secured.
- Note, mark, and photograph location of objects found, such as footprints, tire tracks, bullets and bloodstains, and take measurements of the scene.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pepper spray
- Mobile data computers
- Audio recording equipment
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Laptop computers
- Fingerprint evidence kits
- Metal handcuffs
- Footwear protectors
- Laser light sources
- Personal computers
- Desktop computers
- Riot helmets
- Semiautomatic pistols
- Blood collection kits
- Digital tape recorders
- Riot shields
- Police rifles
- Service revolvers
- Voice stress analyzers
- Polygraphs
- Metal detectors
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA collection kits
- Filter masks
- Impression casting kits
- Digital video cameras
- Power generators
- Road flares
- 35 millimeter cameras
- Drug testing kits
- Crime scene rulers
- Protective gloves
- Distance measuring wheels
- Breathalyzers
- Plastic handcuffs
- Side-handle batons
- Two way radios
- Infrared light sources
- Digital cameras
- Bulletproof vests
- Radar speed readers
- Ultraviolet UV lights
- Electrostatic dust lifters
- Suspect fingerprinting equipment
- Biohazard suits
- First aid kits
- Voice dictation equipment
- Safety goggles
- Police patrol cars
- Compound light microscopes
- Trancite Logic Systems ScenePD
- Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System IAFIS
- National Crime Information Center NCIC database
- SmartDraw.com SmartDraw Legal
- Corel WordPerfect
- Microsoft Office
- DataWorks Plus Digital CrimeScene
- Eos Systems PhotoModeler
- The CAD Zone The Crime Zone
- Law enforcement information databases
- Microsoft Publisher
- Web browser software
- Geographic information system GIS software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- National Integrated Ballistics Information Network NIBIN
- Computer aided composite drawing software
- DeChant Consulting Services iWitness
- Microsoft Visio
- DesignWare 3D EyeWitness
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Visual Statement Vista FX3 CSI
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Digital Image Management Solutions Crime Scene
- Microsoft Word
- Crime mapping software
- Spreadsheet software