Criminal Investigations Division

The Criminal Investigations Division (CID) is responsible for investigating felony and misdemeanor crimes that are not resolved by the Patrol Division.  The Division successfully addresses numerous cases each year, and is primarily responsible for the investigation and apprehension of criminals who would go on to commit additional crimes.  CID is comprised of the following sections: 

Crime Against Persons: This section investigates crimes including deaths   other than those classified as occurring from natural causes, sexual offenses   involving adults, aggravated batteries, attempted murders, simple batteries,   armed and simple robberies, missing persons, and kidnapping. 

• Domestic Violence Investigations: This section investigates cases of domestic violence and stalking through the Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence program.  The officer assigned to this program follows cases from the perpetrators’ arrests, to their trials, and keeps a database to track repeat offenders or offenders who fail to attend court.

Crime Against Property: This section investigates simple and aggravated burglaries, thefts, complaints about possession of stolen property, burglary arrests where the alleged perpetrator is a suspect in other open cases, burglary rings, fencing operations, check fraud, credit card thefts, forgery, contract fraud, welfare and food stamp fraud, confidence schemes, and stolen vehicles.

Juvenile Investigations Section: This section investigates criminal offenses committed by juveniles, excluding homicides, or involving a juvenile victim, excluding homicides and suicides.  This section also assists the Office of Human Development Child Protection Service in investigations involving the City of Kenner.

Intelligence Section: This section investigates organized crime, subversive activity, terrorism, vice crimes, community unrest, narcotics, and white collar crimes.  The Intelligence Section also conducts undercover investigations and background checks on businesses requiring permits from the City of Kenner, investigates public corruption and provides security to visiting dignitaries.  The officer assigned to the Intelligence Section gathers information and evidence from the Criminal Investigations Division, Narcotics Section, and Patrol Division, and provides information bulletins to all officers detailing any case that needs special attention.  The Intelligence Officer produces all crime analyses for the department by reviewing all police reports and determining patterns in times, days, and modus operandi that perpetrators use so patrol officers can help prevent future crimes from occurring.  The Intelligence Officer attends monthly meetings with intelligence sections from other local law enforcement agencies in St. Charles, Orleans, and Jefferson Parishes to discuss gang intelligence, attends the quarterly meetings of the Louisiana Gang Investigators Association (LGIA), is a member of the Anti-Terrorist Task Force (ATTF) and the Southeast Louisiana Intelligence Exchange, and works with the FBI and Secret Service as a liaison.

Narcotics Section: This section investigates the illegal use, cultivation, sale, distribution, and smuggling of illegal drugs and the operation of illegal enterprises involving illegal drugs.  The Narcotics Section includes a Street Level Disruption Unit, which is comprised of four officers.  These off-duty detectives and patrol officers are deployed several days per week where traffickers are distributing narcotics.  The Narcotics Section also has three officers assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and one officer assigned to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), a multi-jurisdictional task force.  HIDTA is comprised of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Louisiana State Police, New Orleans Police Department, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the Internal Revenue Service.  The Narcotics Section is also charged with the proactive investigation of criminal activity involving vice and moral offenses such as prostitution, pornography, pandering, illegal gambling, violations involving alcoholic beverages, and other obscenities.  Whenever necessary, this section is called on standby.  To enable community-minded citizens to report drug-related crimes anonymously, the department has implemented a 24-hour hotline at (504) 466-3073.  Callers should leave as much detail as possible in their recorded message and CID will conduct an investigation based upon the information provided.

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