Message from Director

As the Director of CCBI, I am honored and privileged to have the opportunity to lead a law enforcement agency with a long history of excellence. As I look toward the future of CCBI, I see an agency that will continue to grow to meet the needs of the Wake County law enforcement community. Several of the goals and objectives we established earlier to meet the demands of this growth have come to fruition. One such addition, which is now operational, is a palm print database that will be used to search latent palm prints recovered from the scene of a crime. With the current AFIS database, the search of latent prints discovered at a crime scene is limited to fingerprints only. The addition of this new technology will provide a substantial increase in the number of cases solved by latent print identification.

Sweeping organizational and procedural changes throughout CCBI have been made to increase our efficiency in such areas as decreasing our response times to requests for service calls, arrestee processing, and support services. Three separate divisions have been formed to accommodate these needs. These divisions have been identified as the Services Division, Investigations Division, and the Identification Division. A Deputy Director, who reports directly to the Director, heads each division. The Services Division is responsible for our front lobby service representatives and civilian fingerprinting requests, as well as our drug chemist, forensic computer examiner, forensic photographer, and evidence technician.  In our Investigations Division, four squads, each consisting of one supervisor and four agents, have been formed to improve our response times to crime scenes as well as improved efficiency after arrival at crime scenes. Our Identification Division is responsible for latent print and shoe and tire impression examination. Also, within the Identification Division is the Processing Unit that is assigned the task of fingerprinting, data entry, and record keeping of everyone arrested inside Wake County. Procedural changes within our Processing Unit have increased the safety and security of not only our employees but also that of the arresting officers and their arrestees. Additional changes within the Processing Unit are now in place that will not only monitor the off-road processing time of officers but will also help us to determine if our goal of returning officers to the street expeditiously is being met.

CCBI is fortunate to have a staff of highly trained and dedicated employees who are committed to providing a high standard of excellence in the field of forensic science. CCBI pledges to continue to set high standards and strive for excellence in crime scene investigation and forensic analysis.

Salvatore (Sam) J. Pennica
Director