Investigations Division
The Plymouth Township Police Department currently has a
Detective Sergeant that supervises four Detectives; A Youth
Detective assigned to the middle schools as a School
Resource Officer, is responsible for investigating crimes
that involve local youths. A federally funded grant
position, Family Violence Detective, which investigates all
family, related criminal activities. We also have one
Detective who is responsible for investigating adult
criminal activity. One detective has been assigned to the
recently created Community Response Team (CRT), which is a
multi-jurisdictional unit with members from state, county
and local agencies. The CRT responds to requests from our
agency to help investigate crimes that may require
surveillance, locating suspects, and apprehending suspects
outside the Townships jurisdiction.
When an individual reports a crime to our department a
Patrol Officer will perform the initial preliminary
investigation. The incident report flows through the Patrol
Sergeants to the Detective Sergeant (D/Sgt).
Our major investigations ranged from Home Invasion, Armed
Robberies, and Criminal Sexual Conduct to Identity
Thefts/Frauds.
Tips:
If your wallet/purse happen to be stolen or lost the
following is a list of things that you can do to minimize
the loss, and to assist in our investigation.
1. Make a photo-copy of what items are in your
wallet/purse (this will help
with the notification process if the wallet/purse is
stolen/lost).
2. Contact the credit/debit card company immediately of the
stolen/lost
card.
3. Contact the credit report companies (Equifax- 800
525-6285,
Experian- 888 397-3742, Trans Union- 800 680-7289).
4. Contact the Secretary of State of the lost
Identification.
During the summer our Youth Detectives and Police
Officers put on a Youth Police Academy at the Plymouth
Township Police Department. The Youth of today are our most
valuable resource and we at Plymouth Township feel that
whatever barriers exist between us need to be knocked down
through education and mentoring.
Police Youth Academy - 2006
The Detectives would like to stress the importance to
homeowners/business owners to record serial numbers off
items that are commonly stolen, i.e. CD players, power
tools, bikes. Recording the serial number allows officers
the ability to enter the item into the national computer
database. Officers across the state can enter numbers from
recovered property and return it to the rightful owner as
well as proceeding with criminal charges against the
individual(s) in possession of the stolen property
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