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The Detective Bureau is the investigative branch of
the Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff’s Office. The bureau is composed
of three full-time detectives. The bureau is commanded by the
Lieutenant Detective, and is ranked with a Detective Sergeant, and a
Detective who is a full-time narcotics officer. The Lieutenant
Detective is also the handler
of K-9 Max, a seven-year-old German Shepard whom is certified in
narcotics detection and tracking. The members of the Detective
Bureau are selected from deputies possessing special traits. These
officers undergo extensive specialty training at the state and
federal levels.
The Bureau is staffed Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. However, detectives are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year long and respond to all major crime scenes. The primary functions of the Bureau include investigating all crimes, forensic processing of crime scenes, and criminal prosecutions. The officers assigned to the Detective Bureau specialize in and investigate a wide variety of crimes, including Computer/Internet crime, financial crime, drug, as well as property and violent crime. Individual detectives are specialists in certain fields, such as the investigation of sexual assault, crime scene processing, and evidence handling, tracking, and presentation. The Bureau works with investigators from municipal, state, and federal agencies to accomplish the mission of the Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff’s Office. |
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