General Plan Update - City of Inglewood

6.6 Police Services
The Communications, Records and Custody Divisions provide front line support.
Working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these divisions assist the department, dispatching
emergency calls, operating the Jail and managing all of the associated reports and records
required to move cases, paperwork and people through the Criminal Justice System. The
Police Department maintains a detention facility for adult arrestees. Prisoners are held
until they go to court or until they are bailed out from this department.
The Property Unit stores, catalogs and manages more than 50,000 evidence items
collected by the Department’s officers and detectives annually. The unit manages seized
evidence until such time that it is transferred to the court or ordered destroyed.
The Fiscal Management Unit handles the Department’s Payroll, Purchasing and
Accounts Payable Sections. This unit ensures that employees are paid biweekly, purchases
all equipment and services, and pays the vendors that keep the department operating. It is
also responsible for development of the annual budget.
The Personnel/Training Division is divided into two functions. The Human Resources
Unit is responsible for recruiting, pre-employment investigations and hiring of all police
employee’s. The unit also manages the personnel files of all Police Department
employees.
The Training Unit is responsible for the coordination and management of training to
the department’s entire staff from entry-level recruits to the executive level of the
department. The unit ensures that the department meets or exceeds the level of training
mandated the California’s Commission on Police Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.).
Detective Bureau
This Bureau is traditionally responsible for the investigation and filing of criminal
complaints. Normally, a crime or arrest report is taken by patrol officers and, depending
on the nature of the crime and whether there are any leads, the report is assigned to a
case investigator. The investigator conducts additional follow-up inquiries and determines
if the crime is prosecutable. The ultimate goal is to solve the crime by arresting the
perpetrator and seeing that he or she is prosecuted. The Detective Bureau also handles
missing persons, child abuse and neglect referrals, the monitoring of state-mandated sex
crime registrants, gang and other criminal intelligence issues, and the special issues
surrounding juvenile crime and status offenses. 106
Patrol Bureau
This Bureau is comprised of the Department’s uniformed police divisions and is
considered the foundation of the Department’s crime fighting and public safety efforts in
106 City of Inglewood website. www.cityofinglewood.org/depts/police/detective/default.asp. Accessed
March 23, 2006.
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