The Burglary Special Section (BSS) personnel conduct specialized burglary, theft and fraud investigations in the areas of residential and commercial burglary, hotel and safe burglary, art theft, commercialized cable pirating and telephone cloning, hotel drugging, organized receiving of stolen property and theft by City employees. BSS also includes the Pawnshop Section, whose personnel have Citywide responsibility for enforcing State laws and Police Commission regulations governing 117 pawnshops [PDF], approximately 150 junk dealers and an excess of 3,000 secondhand dealers. The unit coordinates all information regarding stolen merchandise either sold or pawned at any of the above businesses, and the return of the property to the rightful owners.
For information regarding the Burglary Special Section, call 213-485-2524.
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