The police have even asked the financial-crimes unit to investigate the accounts of a few suspected masterminds.
In practice, zero-tolerance policing in New York has mostly been the job of the Street Crimes Unit.
Six years after Heist went missing, Lititz police invited the Lancaster County Major Crimes Unit to join them in conducting a cold case investigation.
After Kelley told the agent about the harassing emails, the agent referred her complaint to a cyber crimes unit at the Bureau, which opened an investigation.
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After the verdict last August advocate depute Gillian Wade, then head of the Crown Office national sex crimes unit, hailed it as a victory for the new law.
Ottawa's major-crimes unit is checking with other police departments for similar cases and looking back through missing-persons files for any clues, according to Constable Marc Soucy, an Ottawa police spokesman.
Its Digital Crimes Unit carried out the operation to tackle the bonnet, which is estimated to have infected approximately one million computers and is capable of sending billions of spam mail every day.
The central Colorado county sheriff's major crimes unit said it has received more than 100 solid tips about the incident, including a growing number of witnesses describing a black car then in the area.
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"The world has gotten smaller, and there has been globalization of everything, including crime, " says Bradley Bryant, the FBI's violent crimes unit chief, pointing to the bureau's offices in 75 cities around the world.
Such has been the function of the stop-and-frisk activities of the New York Police Department, originally under its famed Street Crimes Unit, which developed an uncanny expertise at identifying those likely to be carrying illegal weapons.
The school's announcement last week in a letter sent to faculty, staff, parents and alumni said the committee's leaders would include Lisa Friel, the former chief of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office and a school parent.
Police acted quickly to arrest Mr Strauss-Kahn just hours after the alleged encounter - but they would not have acted in such haste had he not been on a plane bound for France, says Linda Fairstein, the former head of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office.
As President Bill Clinton declares "an all-out assault on hate crime, " the FBI has plans to create a new unit specifically to investigate hate crimes.
The two officers at the center of the controversy were flown by NATO from a Sarajevo prison to the U.N. war crimes tribunal detention unit in the Netherlands on Monday.
Under the legal doctrine of command responsibility, commanders may be held criminally responsible for war crimes committed by personnel within their unit if directed by a commander, or if a commander knew that war crimes were occurring and failed to prevent them or investigate and hold accountable those perpetrating the offenses.
Last year, Attorney General Harris also established an eCrime Unit to prosecute identity theft, data intrusions, and crimes involving the use of technology.
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, a unit of the Treasury Department, in March issued guidelines that said virtual currency exchanges are subject to the same comprehensive anti-money-laundering requirements as traditional money-transmission businesses such as Western Union Co.
This week saw the official unveiling of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) which, as its name suggests, will specialise in the investigation of crimes that involve net and computer technology.
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