Criminal Investigations

The Criminal Investigations Division (CID) is supervised by a sergeant and has four civilians and seven sworn investigators assigned to its staff. Each detective assigned to CID has received general training in all aspects of criminal investigation, as well as specialized training in areas that are specific to each detective. These areas include financial crimes such as credit card abuse and forgery, bunco and fraudulent crime such as pigeon drops and crimes against the elderly, domestic violence, computer crime and forensics to name a few. In 2009, CID also began working on a joint Secret Service Fraud Task Force.

Clearing Cases

• Unfounded - Occasionally, the Hurst Police Department will receive a complaint which is determined to be false or baseless. If the investigation shows that no offense occurred or was attempted, the reported offense is unfounded.
• Clearances by Arrest - An offense is cleared by arrest or solved when a person is arrested, cited, charged with the commission of an offense, and is turned over to the court for prosecution.
• Exceptional Clearances - If a case is unable to be cleared by an arrest, all leads have been exhausted, and everything has been done in order to clear the case, it can be cleared as exceptional.