Police Department - Family Conflict Section
Responsibilities
The Family Conflict Section consists of specially trained investigators responsible for the investigation of criminal behavior of a sexual nature and also cases serious child abuse or trauma. The Section includes a Domestic Abuse Resource Team (DART) with a Victim Advocate and a Victim Resource Officer (VRO).
The cases investigated include:
- sexual assaults and attempted sexual assaults
- intra-family sexual abuse
- attempts to entice children
- child exploitation
- obscene communications
- child in need of assistance
- proactive internet cases
- child abuse / trauma cases
- infant deaths
Many of the cases assigned to the Family Conflict Section are handled as joint investigations with Child Protective Investigators, the Polk County Attorney's Office, and medical personnel
Success Rate
The overall clearance rate described the ability of the investigators to identify person(s) responsible for committing the offense. The Family Conflict a Section's clearance rate for the year 2000 was 76%. A total of 831 cases were investigated of which 633 were cleared; 20% of the total cases resulted in the filing of criminal charges.
Normal business hours for the Family Conflict Section are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Investigators can be reached by calling (515) 283-4864. Sexual Abuse / Child Trauma investigators respond to call-outs or on a 24 hour basis.
More Information
City of Des Moines, Iowa
Police Department
- 25 East First Street
- Des Moines, Iowa 50309
- E-mail: Information Center
- Web Site: http://www.dmgov.org