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Note: The number of overall reported incidents is generally more significant than the

number of investigations carried out by the CIU. This is due to frivolous or unfounded

criminal complaints; determined by other divisions of the Cranston Police Department

before Detective assignment or determined after progressing to the CIU but before

assignment. However, it must be construed as an accurate depiction of an overall

crime comparison.

The Special Victims Unit (SVU) is under the leadership of Detective Sergeant Lori

Sweeney. It 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. To meet

this mission, the SVU comprises four detectives, a civilian domestic violence

advocate/law enforcement liaison supervised by a detective sergeant. Additionally,

three detectives remain sworn members of the FBI, HIS, 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 forty-one incidents of criminal

sexual contact in 2022. This represents a slight downward trend in the overall

number of reported incidents of sexual crime.

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Cranston Police Department Year in Review 2022