Major Crash Investigation Unit

What the unit does

The Patrol currently has twenty officers assigned to five Major Crash Investigation Units, located strategically throughout the state. The primary mission of the MCIU is to investigate and provide detailed reporting of serious crashes involving fatalities, commercial motor vehicles, and crashes resulting in felony criminal charges.

The crash teams also assist other law enforcement agencies with serious traffic crash investigations and critical crime scene mapping. The teams use Robotic Total Station technology, which allows for the accurate and fair depiction of crash and crime scenes diagrammed to scale. Each officer is trained in the human, mechanical, and environmental factors of traffic crash investigation, and they are considered court experts in the field.

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