Multi-Skilled Division

The Crime Scene Unit responds to a wide variety of crime scenes and incidents for the purpose of forensic documentation and evidence collection as determined by the Commanding Officer of the Detective Bureau.  The Crime Scene Unit supports all other divisions within the department as well as other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in crime scene processing, evidence collection, and identification sciences.  The primary function of the crime scene unit is to document scenes and to identify, collect and preserve physical evidence.  The unit also performs analysis of certain types of evidence and determines the relevancy of the evidence to the incident, and may assist with providing aspects of evidence reconstruction. The Forensic Division of the Waterbury Police Department is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.