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"March 2011"--Page 1.
"This is one in a series of papers that will be published as a result of Harvard’s Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety. In the early 1980s, an Executive Session on Policing helped resolve many law enforcement issues of the day. It produced a number of papers and concepts that revolutionized policing. Thirty years later, law enforcement has changed and NIJ and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government are again collaborating to help resolve law enforcement issues of the day."--Page 1.
"NCJ 232994"--Page [1].
Summary
"In this paper, we develop an argument that police departments need to engage in a critical examination of the work of their investigators and recognize their importance in understanding and controlling recurring crime problems. Police departments and managers need to inspire a spirit of innovation and creativity among investigators in responding
to crime that goes beyond simply managing their caseloads and making arrests. As with uniformed patrol operations in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, it is time for a period of innovation in the work of criminal investigators that develops their potential for controlling crime rather than handling only the cases that come their way. Throughout this paper, we use the broad term "criminal investigators" rather than more specific terms such as "detectives" or "inspectors" to represent sworn police personnel who are charged with completing follow-up investigations of crimes that are not solved by patrol officers."--Pages 3-4.