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Newport News Police Department
inventory, and releases bicycles, mopeds, four-wheelers, and scooters turned in by patrol officers
and police aids.
e. Body-worn Camera Office: Provides overall maintenance of the body-worn camera system and
its components, maintaining user accounts, permission levels, and equipment. Provides user
support, training, troubleshooting and assistance and ensures the automated retention schedule
meets Library of Virginia standards.
5. Human Resources Administrative Support
Provides support in employment, employee relations, classification & compensation, performance
management, training, personnel actions, recruitment and onboarding, and employee
accommodation.
D. Investigative Services Consists of the Special Investigations, Community & Youth Outreach and Major
Crimes Divisions.
1. Major Crimes Division
a. Homicide Units: Investigate crimes and reported incidents involving suspicious and unnatural
deaths, including accidental deaths, suicides, police-involved shootings, and homicides.
b. Special Victims Unit: Investigates all adult rapes and sex offenses. Further, the unit investigates
child abuse, both sexual and physical, missing persons and runaway juveniles, and maiming. This
unit is also responsible for activating the Amber Alert Plan. Select members are assigned to the
Domestic Violence Team, which utilizes a multipronged approach to addressing domestic
violence, including high-risk or complex investigations, advocacy, safety planning and education.
c. Aggravated Assault Units: Investigates reports of malicious wounding, shootings, stabbings, life-
threatening beatings, and other serious or unusual situations. Exceptions include domestic-
related aggravated assaults, shootings where the victim admits to shooting themselves
intentionally or accidentally, aggravated assaults involving juveniles when a firearm is not used,
and injuries that are not life threatening.
d. Technical Investigations Unit: Serves primarily as an investigative support unit, providing
detectives with digital forensics examinations, mapping and analysis, video and audio
surveillance recovery, electronic evidence repair, real-time location tracking, and expert court
testimony.
e. Forensic Services Unit: Processes crime scenes, collects, preserves, and delivers physical evidence to
the Virginia Division Forensic Science Crime Laboratory for analysis, testifies in court, develops and
prints crime scene photographs, and processes physical evidence. The unit operates the Virginia
Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) computer (entry of crime scene latent prints and
registering known fingerprints into the system) and administers the department’s DataWorks
system. The National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) technician is also in this unit.
[83.2.2; 83.2.4 (a,b,c,d)]
f. Economic Crimes Unit: Investigates criminal cases that inflict serious financial hardships (over
$3000), such as fraud, identity theft, scams and other complex white-collar type crimes. The unit
works withs with the U.S. Postal Service and U.S. Secret Service.
2. Special Investigations Division
a. Narcotics Units: Responsible for investigating violations of the Virginia Drug Control Act. Cases
meeting federal adoption guidelines are forwarded to the United States Attorney’s Office for
federal prosecution.
b. Gang Units: Gathers information and conducts investigations involving organized criminal gang
activity, focusing on violent crime reduction strategies. Unit members also support investigations
by other units or agencies involving gang members who reside in or frequent the City of Newport
News.
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