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Gang Unit (VIOU) Job Description
The Rocky Mount Police Department’s Violent Offender Investigation Unit is responsible for gathering intelligence and investigating crimes committed by members/associates of criminal street gangs that are located in the city of Rocky Mount and surrounding jurisdictions. Additionally, the VOIU is responsible for working with schools and community-based organizations in the areas of prevention, intervention and suppression of criminal gang activity.
VOIU Duties
- Validate gang members based on the criteria set forth by the North Carolina Gang Investigator’s Association and state law
- Gather intelligence on gang members and their activities
- Investigate and apprehend gang members
- Weapons and narcotics seizures from gangs
- Provide gang awareness training/presentations to community organizations, city departments and schools
- Assist the Criminal Investigation Division and other divisions within the police department with gang related crimes
- Provide expert gang testimony in federal and state court
- Maintain current databases on validated gang members and their criminal activity
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Divisions
The Rocky Mount Chief of Police oversees four major divisions in addition to other staff.