Assaults - Juvenile - Missing Persons Unit
The Assaults Unit
The Assaults Unit is responsible for the investigation of a wide variety of serious incidents including assaults, kidnappings, weapons violations, and hate crimes. The Assaults Unit is comprised of two sergeants and seven detectives. Investigators are routinely tasked with investigating serious assault cases, such as shootings, stabbings and beatings involving serious injury. Assaults Unit detectives are also responsible for aggressively investigating hate crime incidents. A hate crime is defined as any unlawful action against the person or property of another, committed because of the victim’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or sexual orientation. The unit is committed to investigating, identifying and prosecuting those who commit acts of violence within the City of San Jose
The Juvenile Unit
The Juvenile Unit is comprised of one sergeant and five detectives. Detectives assigned to the Juvenile Unit are responsible for investigating a wide variety of cases involving juvenile offenders. Their investigations range from simple cases of vandalism to serious cases involving weapons and aggravated assault. The unit works closely with both the Santa Clara County Juvenile Probation Department and the District Attorney’s Office.
The Missing Persons Unit
The Missing Persons Unit is responsible for locating persons who are formally reported as missing from within the City of San Jose. The Missing Persons Unit is comprised of one sergeant and four detectives. Their cases include: missing adults, “at risk” missing adults, often suffering from a serious medical or mental disorder, missing children and chronic runaways. Missing person cases can be involved and on occasion turn into homicide investigations. Cases involving young children or the severely disabled are given the highest priority. When these serious cases arise the Unit often solicits assistance from other outside resources such as, search and rescue volunteers, and a recently implemented telephone alert system known as, “A Child is Missing Alert!”