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The Special Victims Unit (SVU) is under the leadership of Detective Sergeant Lori
Sweeney and is responsible for the investigation of all offenses within the City of
Cranston that involve domestic violence, sexual crimes, child neglect/abuse, elderly
neglect/abuse, human trafficking, missing adults, runaways and vandalisms. The
Unit is also responsible for the maintenance of the sexual offender registry. In order
to meet this mission, the SVU is comprised of four detectives, a civilian domestic
violence advocate/law enforcement liaison and is supervised by a detective sergeant.
Additionally, three detectives remain sworn members of FBI, HSI and SOLEMN federal
task forces respectively. Detective Sergeant Sweeney was sworn in on July 8, 2015;
Detective Iacone was sworn in on May 15, 2015 and Detective Daniel Lee was sworn in
on March 26, 2018.The SVU detectives investigated 36 incidents of criminal sexual
contact in 2020. This represents a slight downward trend in the overall number of
reported incidents of sexual crime.
Sexual Based Offenses
57 58 57
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2020 2019 2018 2017
The unit was also responsible for following up on initial reports taken by the Uniform
Division dealing with not only sexually based offenses, but also vandalism, family
offenses, and runaways.
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Cranston Police Department Year in Review 2020
