Crime Management Services
Crime Management Services (CMS) deals with major or serious crime. The department covers many areas, from familiar incidents you may have heard of like murders, assaults and drugs to more modern issues like terrorism and immigration.
Crime management services is an umbrella term that makes up a number of specialist units, officers and staff. The department operates throughout the force and provides a wide range of specialist investigation units, including:
- Divisional Criminal Investigation Departments (CID)
- Drug Squad
- Special Branch
- Offender Management Unit
- Ports Unit
- Fraud and Financial Investigation Unit
- Family Protection Unit
- Force Intelligence Bureau
- Confidential Unit
Our crime management services is headed up by a detective superintendent who manages all these units. The detective superintendent is responsible for the investigation of all the crimes these units deal with. The specialist units have a force-wide responsibility and also provide support to the two divisions.
Like any other police force our officers have to deal with serious crime. We classify serious crime as murders, attempted murders, culpable homicide, terrorism, rape and robbery. There could be other serious crimes the crime management services staff will become involved in. This could be repeated low level crime or a particular crime pattern in one area. Regular, volume or low impact crime is dealt with operational staff in the divisions.
As with the rest of the force, the department aims to meet your needs in the local communities. We want to give you the best possible police service with the resources available to us. This means careful allocation and sharing of specialist staff between our divisions.
Crime management services staff are based throughout the divisions and also at police headquarters. This is so we can offer a professional response to tackle serious or specialist crime no matter where it may happen in Dumfries and Galloway. Both divisions have equal access to our specially trained crime management services staff.
Our staff
Read a personal profile of the Detective Superintendent who heads up our Crime Management Services department:
