Departments
Investigative Services
Investigative services is divided into Intelligence, Strategic Investigation, Investigation Hub North, Investigation Hub South, Protecting Vulnerable People and Forensics.
These departments, which make up Investigative Services, are collectively responsible for protecting Staffordshire from harm, particularly those communities and individuals who are most vulnerable.
Investigative services will be working very closely with local policing and response team colleagues and partners to tackle volume crime, serious crime and criminality by providing specialist resources to support local policing.
Forensics
Forensics provides specialist-trained staff to support county-wide police efforts in the investigation of volume and major crime. Forensic Investigators are based at all main stations. Forensic and fingerprint evidence is crucial in many criminal cases.
Intelligence
The department has three key elements - Covert, Intelligence and Analysis/Research.
Investigation hubs
The Investigation Hubs support frontline policing by undertaking, advising and detecting volume serious acquisitive, time critical crime investigations and proactively targeting organised crime groups.
Protecting Vulnerable People
Our Protecting Vulnerable People department deals with allegations of abuse towards some of society’s most vulnerable groups including: children, vulnerable adults, and victims of domestic abuse, and undertakes investigations into crimes including: harassment, serious sexual offences, human trafficking, vice offences and hate crimes.
Strategic Investigation Hub
Our experienced teams of detectives are responsible for investigating and solving both serious crime and those crimes which constitute a series of linked offences. We cover a wide range of investigations from drug supply, money laundering, fraud, and robbery to complex enquiries such as murder, kidnap and armed robberies as well as investigations into organised criminal gangs.