Sentence examples for detectives were assigned to from inspiring English sources

Detectives were assigned to investigate this lead.

Fresh Kills was considered a crime scene, which is why detectives were assigned to it.

He said several detectives were assigned to the case full time, working weekends and nights over a period of nearly three weeks.

Twenty-five detectives were assigned to the killing of Amy Watkins, a social work student stabbed in the back in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

At one point, 20 detectives were assigned to investigate the case, and though they zeroed in on a suspect almost from the start, there was not enough evidence to charge him.

Detectives were assigned to four surveillance points in neighborhoods that Mr. Bowden was known to frequent, and a description of him and the Volvo was broadcast to officers on patrol citywide.

For example, dozens of city detectives are assigned to the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, combing for evidence through the rubble that is brought there from ground zero.

Police Commissioner Howard Safir said the detective is assigned to the Gang Investigation Division's Brooklyn North Gang Unit.

The detective is assigned to Brooklyn North Narcotics, and joined the department in 1993, according to Sgt. James Foley, a police spokesman.

The IPCC said the inquiry was then left with no one working on it as one detective was assigned to chasing robbers and another took a career break.

"When the detective was assigned to the case I called practically every day and every day they told me, 'Nothing yet,' so I thought it was never going to happen for us".