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 Fiscal Year 2006 Proposed Budget

SECTION E -- PUBLIC SAFETY
POLICE DEPARTMENT

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION

PROGRAM MISSION: To successfully prosecute perpetrators of criminal offenses through quality investigations by working with district personnel and using intelligence to identify emerging crime trends.

The Criminal Investigations Division identifies, arrests and prosecutes the perpetrators of criminal offenses, recovers and returns stolen property to its rightful owner, and investigates and prepares cases to ensure successful prosecution in court. It also prevents and detects illegal vice activities known or suspected to be associated with organized crime and gathers and maintains accurate, current intelligence with an emphasis on the relationship of organized criminal groups to vice and drug violators. Staff assigned to this division also assist District personnel with community problem solving through the timely identification of emerging crime patterns and criminal methods of operations, and by assisting Districts in developing tactical strategies, and by developing investigative problem solving and crime prevention initiatives.

Criminal Investigations Division
FY 2004
Actual
FY 2005
Adopted
FY 2006
Proposed
% Change:
'05 to '06
Personnel $7,083,232 $7,010,633 $7,175,837 2%
Non-Personnel 1,295,993 796,397 796,397 -
Total Expenditures 8,379,225 7,807,030 7,972,234 2%
Fees 73,609 32,604 32,604 -
Grants 110,091 - - -
Total Revenues 183,700 32,604 32,604 -
Net Tax Support $8,195,525 $7,774,426 $7,939,630 2%
Authorized FTEs 82.0 82.0 82.0
Funded FTEs 82.0 82.0 82.0

SIGNIFICANT BUDGET CHANGES:

  • Personnel expenditures increased due to normal step increases ($165,204).

PERFORMANCE MEASURES:


FY 2002 Actual FY 2003 Actual FY 2004 Actual FY 2005 Estimate FY 2006 Estimate FY 2006 Goal
Mission Outcome Measures
Number of cases successfully resolved 4,127 3,141 1,711 1,800 1,800 1,800
Clearance rate percentage (total cases) 33% 29% 18% 22% 22% 22%
Clearance rate (assigned cases) N/A 74% 53% 60% 60% 60%
Part I Offense Closures Percentages:
Burglary N/A N/A 22% 22% 22% 22%
Grand larceny of auto N/A N/A 20% 20% 20% 20%
Robbery N/A N/A 18% 18% 18% 18%
Homicide N/A N/A 100% 100% 100% 100%
Aggravated assault N/A N/A 35% 35% 35% 35%
Rape N/A N/A 55% 55% 55% 55%
Customer Measures
Number of handgun permits processed 86 109 57 114 114 114
Number of gun applicant background checks 19 28 7 32 32 32
Efficiency Measures
Cases per investigator 397 344 293 310 310 310
Number of handgun permits denied 0 1 0 2 2 2
Value of stolen property recovered by pawn unit $59,765 $46,425 $303,155 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000
Workload Measures
Number of cases received 12,305 10,664 9,377 9,500 9,500 9,500
Number of warrants / summons processed 1,293 1,022 1,046 1,000 1,000 1,000
Number of pawn articles searched 171,961 163,059 123,249 148,000 148,000 148,000
Number of polygraph examinations 58 61 73 80 80 80
Number of arrests pawn related 17 23 23 29 29 29
  • Clearance rate percentage (total cases) is the closure rate of the total cases received. Clearance rates for 2004 do not include any unfounded cases.
  • Clearance rate (assigned cases) is the number of assignedcases successfully closed. 517 cases were investigated and found to be unfounded and are not counted as actual cases due to incident-based report (IBR) guidelines. This method of accounting is in line with the FBI's polices and practices.
  • Part I offense closure represents all cases received by the Criminal Investigation Section (CIS), not just ones assigned for active investigative follow up, minus ones determined to be unfounded. FY 2006 is the first time CIS has reported Part I offenses as a mission outcome.
  • Number of gun applicant background checks reflects the teletypes received from other jurisdictions across the United States and the Virginia Firearms Transaction Center pertaining to previous residents of Arlington and previous arrestees and Class III applicants.
  • Cases per investigator are the total number of cases assigned and cases designated with no follow up potential to 32 detectives. This does not count the warrant officer or the computer forensic detectives. The Criminal Investigations Section currently has three vacancies and two detectives on temporary assignments (task forces).
  • The total number of cases received, assigned, percentage cleared, and cases per detective are extrapolated from the monthly Criminal Investigations Section reports to the Deputy Chief of Criminal Investigations.
  • The warrant section statistics are derived from the Criminal Investigations Section monthly reports reflecting the number of warrants/summons received and removed by arrest, withdrawal and return.
  • The total value of stolen property recorded by the Pawn Officer, both Pawn and Burglary Unit related. All pawn/gun statistics are extrapolated from the logbooks of the Pawn Unit. The pawn articles for Washington, DC are no longer available to Arlington County.
  • The source for the polygraph results is the confidential polygraph monthly reports.

Forensic ID Unit



FY 2002 Actual FY 2003 Actual FY 2004 Actual FY 2005 Estimate FY 2006 Estimate FY 2006 Goal
Mission Outcome Measures
Identification of felons made through fingerprints 212 216 186 230 230 230
Identification of victims made through fingerprints 36 62 21 45 45 45
Customer Measures
Records Management System's (RMS) record transfers of arrest information into the photo database 11,727 11,468 11,164 11,600 11,600 11,600
Workload Measures
Photographs printed/film developed 20,106 20,133 25,300 20,175 24,000 24,000
Persons processed in-house ID unit 6,128 6,220 5,494 6,275 6,000 6,000
Persons processed by Northern Virginia Regional Identification System (NOVARIS)/comparisons 181,195 187,491 171,935 189,000 185,000 185,000
Photo records added to database 8,279 8,209 8,128 8,400 8,400 8,400
Line-ups and/or wanted posters created 119 185 134 195 150 150
  • Identifications made through fingerprints include all arrest fingerprint cards as well as applicant fingerprint cards which are processed in the Forensic ID Unit.
  • Northern Virginia Regional Identification System (NOVARIS) allows examiners to encode latent prints from crime scenes and live scan arrest fingerprint cards for search by the system. Latent prints are currently compared against a regional database that includes Northern Virginia as well as Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties in Maryland.

Vice Control Section

FY 2002 Actual FY 2003 Actual FY 2004 Actual FY 2005 Estimate FY 2006 Estimate FY 2006 Goal
Mission Outcome Measures
Clearance rate percentage 95% 95% 96% 95% 95% 96%
Customer Measures
Number of cases successfully resolved 368 380 443 380 400 420
Workload Measures
Narcotics Unit drug arrests:
Level 1 violator 15 12 28 12 18 20
Level 2 violator 20 30 25 34 25 30
Level 3 violator 7 16 24 16 20 25
Other arrests 3 12 21 19 20 25
Vice arrests:
Level 1 violator 12 16 6 18 10 12
Level 2 violator 51 55 30 60 50 60
Efficiency Measures
Number of cases received 387 400 462 400 430 450
Cases per investigator 43 50 58 50 55 60
  • Narcotics Arrests:

    Level 1: Supplies wholesale quantities, imports drugs into Arlington, or by virtue of their activities becomes a high profile drug dealer.
    Level 2: Supplies street dealers.
    Level 3: Any person who sells user quantities of drugs.
  • Vice Arrests:

    Level 1: Charged with an offense indicating involvement in the organization or management of the criminal enterprise.
    Level 2: Charged with being a participant in an illegal activity.