CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION SECTION (CIS), commanded by a captain, is comprised of the Homicide Unit, Personal Crimes Unit, Major Offenders Unit, and Youth Services Unit.

• Homicide Unit, commanded by a lieutenant, investigates homicides, all violent or suspicious deaths, fire deaths, police shootings, police use of force resulting in hospitalization, prisoner deaths while in custody, potentially fatal assaults, felony patient abuse and neglect cases, kidnappings and abductions. The Homicide Unit also maintains a central file of confiscated weapons. The unit administers the Department’s Robbery Apprehension Program (RAP) and is the Department’s liaison with the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office. The Homicide Unit is also responsible for the direct supervision of the Criminalistics Squad.
  
• Personal Crimes Unit, commanded by a lieutenant, is responsible for investigating rapes and other sexual assault offenses, missing persons, child stealing and certain other crimes against children. It acts as a liaison with the Hamilton County Juvenile Court and other social support organizations. The unit also coordinates and schedules all polygraph and computer voice stress analyzer examinations.
  
• Major Offenders Unit, is commanded by a lieutenant. The unit is responsible for the operation of the Financial Crimes Squad, which conducts investigations of financial institution robberies, fraud, forgery, credit card fraud, check embezzlement, extortion, coercion, and bribery offenses. The unit also administers the Crime Stoppers and Rapid Indictment programs.
  
• Youth Services Unit, commanded by a lieutenant, is responsible for the administration and services related to juveniles. Youth Services Unit includes the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Squad and School Resource Officer (SRO) Squad. This unit is committed to the development and perpetuation of programs designed to prevent and control juvenile delinquency. The responsibility for participating in or supporting the agency’s juvenile operations function is shared by all agency components and personnel.
  
  • DARE Squad, supervised by a sergeant, is responsible for implementing and coordinating the DARE program. Kindergarten through eighth grade classes are instructed by police officers in all Cincinnati public schools and selected private schools. Fundamental courses are given to kindergarten through fourth grade students. The core of the program is taught to fifth grade students and upon successful completion they graduate from the DARE course. Reinforcement classes are then given to students in grades six through eight.
    
  • School Resource Officer (SRO) Squad, supervised by a sergeant, consists of uniformed personnel working in the schools providing community police services to the school population.