DENVER (KDVR) — As of Wednesday, the Regional Transportation District’s Transit Police Department Detective Bureau officially rolled out and became operational. The new branch of RTD will allow for the transit service to investigate and prosecute its own crimes.
“We just wanted to let our partnering agencies know, hey, we are a full-service creditable police department,” Brian Cousineau, a commander with RTD Transit Police Department, said.
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The department started working on the internal detective bureau back in January and now will be able to investigate crimes that happen across their multiple jurisdictions.
“The RTD-PD worked to establish bureau protocols across eight counties and 40 municipalities within RTD’s service area to formally prosecute personal crimes, involving any threat or use of force, and includes felony-level narcotics violations across the agency’s system or property,” RTD stated in a press release…