Dickinson PD 2021 Annual Report

Criminal Support Division The Criminal Support Division was put in place in August of 2022 aDer a department wide restructure and promo on of Lieutenant Kylan Klauzer. It is comprised of 16 staff from the Records Division, Detec ves of the Criminal Inves ga on Division (CID), School Resource Officers (SRO), and the department Drug Task Force Officers (TFO).

Lieutenant Klauzer is also assigned as part of his du es to oversee the department’s sworn officer training and to par cipate in a number of community engagement boards.

The Records Management Division is made up of 1 supervisor and 2 full- me staff. They are tasked with insuring the department is mee ng criteria of mandatory crime repor ng at the local, state, and federal level. Their oversight of the department’s documenta on and quality assurance review is paramount for the department’s legi macy in criminal sta s cal categories. They also handle the fingerprint services of the department and registra on of local registered offenders.

There are 3 full- me SRO posi ons assigned to the Dickinson Public School (DPS) system. Their primary du es consist of building rela onships among students and staff, educa ng our youth on select trends, maintaining our Drug Abuse Resistance Educa on (DARE program), and inves ga ng certain juvenile related crimes. Their posi ons in our community have come to be one the department’s largest assets in pursuing our mission of community policing.

Our CID has 6 full- me detec ve’s and 1 full- me criminal intelligence analyst. Their du es consist of the inves ga on in to both person and property crimes.

The sex offender monitoring program is managed by CID as well. They will also complete all newly hired police officer background inves ga ons. When the department has their most cri cal and significant criminal incident responses, these individuals are most oDen assigned to complete those inves ga ons. Our criminal intelligence analyst is responsible for weekly criminal intelligence updates, iden fying criminal nexuses effec ng our community, and working with the detec ves on many of their cases to improve the quality of their criminal inves ga ons. This posi on is cri cal in iden fying a plethora of criminal intelligence needed to complete quality criminal inves ga ons.

The local South West Narco cs Task Force (SWNTF) has 2 of our Dickinson Police Department officers assigned to them as a TFO. They assist the SWNTF in their efforts to combat illegal narco cs in our community. The primary roles of a TFO is to inves gate criminal drug cases generated in the City of Dickinson. They will also aid in service throughout the region, when their SWNTF members may need assistance. Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Heroin, Cocaine, and Marijuana remain the most prevalent of the drugs the SWNTF encounters and inves gates. These inves ga ons are oDen labor intensive and complicated due to the nature of the drug trafficking world and technology.

This team of employees is oDen asked to complete many specialty details and work with our public in a very proximate way. While our patrol division remains the backbone of the department, these posi ons are expected to complete much of the finer detailed work ascribed by the Dickinson Police Department.

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