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LOS SANTOS POLICE DEPARTMENT
OFFICES, BUREAUS, DIVISIONS AND UNITS
ROLES & DESCRIPTIONS (TO BE UPDATED)
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE
The Office of the Chief of Police has the responsibility of assisting the Chief of Police in the administration of the department. This includes executive leadership, policy direction and oversight of the entire Department, including legal affairs, internal affairs and public communication. It develops the LSPD's policies and procedures, conducts internal auditing and programs to ensure compliance, handles litigation, forms and ensures compliance with the LSPD's long-term strategic plan and risk management strategies, and coordinates local, state, and federal government and legislative matters.
OFFICE OF OPERATIONS
The main function of this Office is to provide basic policing services to the community. All uniformed operations are supervised and scrutinised by this office. All stations, their watch commanders and personnel work under and report to this office.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS
Director of Special Operations: Assistant Chief of Police Austin Barrett
The Office of Special Operations oversees specialised tactical, investigative and counter-terrorism operations. Under this office are the following Bureaus:Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau
COUNTER-TERRORISM AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS BUREAU
The Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau exercises line supervision over the Metropolitan Division and the Uniformed Operations Division. The Bureau provides the Los Santos Police Department with specialised tactical resources in support of operations during daily field activities, unusual occurrences, and elevated threat conditions. The mission is to establish a department-wide collaborative, consistent and coordinated approach to field situations with an emphasis on strategic depth.
The Metropolitan Division consists of:
-- Special Weapons and Tactics (Platoon D):
- Responsible for providing support to the department's community-based policing efforts by deploying additional crime suppression resources throughout the nation in situations such as high-risk barricaded suspects, security details, hostage situations and highly dangerous criminals;
- Responsible for the development and deployment of a reserve force of the most highly trained and disciplined personnel possible;
- Responsible for active involvement in long-term counter-terrorism assignments.
-- Crime Suppression Unit (Platoon C):
- Responsible for providing crime suppression and crime relief units in crime-heavy areas;
- Responsible for the development of gang suppression units and armoured patrols in a known gang turf;
- Responsible for assisting S.W.A.T. in joint platoon task forces as required.
-- Canine Platoon (K-9 Platoon):
- Responsible for providing canine support within the city of Los Santos;
- Responsible for bomb detection in high-risk events or terrorism-related threats;
- Responsible for assisting S.W.A.T. in joint platoon task forces as required.
The Uniformed Operations Division consists of:
-- Traffic Enforcement Unit:
- Control the traffic flow in and out of the City of Los Santos.
- Focus on traffic law enforcement.
- Assistance to other divisions of the Los Santos Police Department.
- Provide necessary assistance to the officers when required.
- Organize traffic checkpoints for any DUI and trafficking of illegal substances.
- Organized speedtraps to control the speed of the drivers within the city.
- Work alongside the K9 Platoon in their operations.
- Organize public events for the citizens of Los Santos (i.e. sensational days about traffic).
- Organize training for the officers in the field regarding traffic law enforcement and general in-vehicle behaviour of LSPD personnel.
-- Specialised Patrol Services:
Specialised Patrol Services is a unit dedicated to assisting any law enforcement organisation with airborne situations and scenarios. The SPS is also able to provide high-speed units, marine units and aerial surveillance to the mentioned organisations. The division works closely with LSPD Metro and the FBI.
Detective Bureau
DETECTIVE BUREAU
The Detective Bureau is the investigative division of the Los Santos Police Department. All of the members of this Bureau have gone through extensive training and have a large set of responsibilities, aside from their regular police duties. Law enforcement in the form of repression, as well as prevention, plays a large role in the character of the Bureau. Unlike all other Bureaus, the ranks within this bureau are directly linked to the LSPD rank structure, and you automatically become inducted in the bureau if you join the Detective Training Program.
LSPD Detectives wear civilian clothing during their duties and focus on investigations, as well as respond to regular situations with a different approach. Detectives can also be found wearing their regular LSPD-issued uniform, depending on the situation.
The essential goals of the Detective Bureau are but not limited to:
- Provide professional and quality investigations
- Provide community care in troubled neighbourhoods
- Provide scene security for crime-scenes
- Perform vehicle collision investigations
- Perform internal departmental investigations and surveys
- Gather departmental statistics
- Gather information that can be used during daily shift-briefings, held by Sergeants.
- Cross-agency communication
- Passing on leads and information to the FBI
The Bureau has several divisions under its wing, these are:
Gang and Narcotics (GNU)
The Gang and Narcotics Division is responsible for disrupting violent street gangs and the means by which they support their lifestyle, including the manufacture, transportation, sale and use of illicit drugs, and sales of firearms in the greater Los Santos area. GNU's enforcement efforts also focus on street-level enforcement strategies to effect a reduction in felony crimes, thereby resolving community problems and facilitating uniformed officers' involvement in narcotics and gang enforcement.
Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD)
The Robbery-Homicide Division is responsible for investigating select homicides, bank robberies, serial robberies, extortions, sexual assaults, human trafficking, kidnapping, incidents that result in injury or death to an officer, and threats against officers.
Vice and Major Crimes Division
The Vice and Major Crimes Division is responsible for investigating missing persons, hate crimes, threats made to public officials/prominent persons, aggravated stalking, piracy and counterfeit sales/goods, animal cruelty, pimping/pandering, pornography, and prostitution/human trafficking. The Vice division also specialises in evidence analysis such as Questioned Documents, Serology/DNA, Trace Analysis, Firearms Analysis, Field Investigation, Quality Assurance, Toxicology, and Narcotics Analysis. They often coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding high profile cases. The Major Crimes section deals with Terrorism, Assassination Attempts, White Collar crimes amongst other high-profile cases in conjunction with the FBI.
-- Chief of Detectives: Commander Monika Kriegs
OFFICE OF SUPPORT SERVICES
The Office of Support Services is responsible for the personnel matters of the Los Santos Police Department. It conducts the department's recruitment and selection efforts and processes. Job-related training programs are developed and implemented to include sophisticated service training, in accordance with the standards of the department. On the other hand, this Office is the administrative backbone of the department, ensuring the straightforward production of policing-oriented documents, circulars and alike, utmost accountability with the intention of upholding the professional standards expected from the Los Santos Police Department.
Under this office are the following Bureaus:Training Bureau
-- Training Bureau:
- Responsible for the processing, interviewing, and screening of applicants;
- Responsible for the administration of ongoing recruitment waves;
- Responsible for responding to inquiries from candidates;
- Responsible for the maintenance of personnel records.
- Responsible for providing the best possible training scheme for students and probationary personnel;
- Responsible for the creation and constant renovation of effective policing methods for the benefit of police officers;
- Responsible for the instruction, guidance, mentoring and correction of students and probationary personnel throughout all aspects of police work;
- Responsible for the coordination and scheduling of service training in several aspects of police work.
Under the Training Bureau are two divisions - the Training Division and the Recruitment and Employment Division.
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS BUREAU
The Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) is committed to identifying misconduct that discredits the organisation and decreases police legitimacy within the diverse communities we serve. It is dedicated to completing thorough and timely investigations in order to ensure that LSPD personnel consistently treat all community members fairly, with dignity and respect, in every law enforcement encounter. Innovative programs such as complaint mediation highlight the future of PSB by providing a voice and space for community members to be heard in a safe and neutral environment. Through transparent examination processes, it strives to enhance public trust and ensure the quality of service to the valued communities the LSPD serves.
Under the Professional Standards Bureau are the following divisions:
- Internal Affairs Division
- Force Investigation Division
-- Administrative Services Division:
The Administrative Services Bureau works closely with STAFF Officers to keep the public informed of the Department's interactions in day-to-day operations. This division is responsible to ensure transparency between the department and the public.