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Metropolitan Forgery Section

Metropolitan Forgery Section investigates and processes all forgery related arrestees and investigates all crimes involving forged and counterfeit checks, credit cards, airline tickets and prescriptions. They also investigate burglaries and thefts where blank checks and/or check writing equipment, blank airline tickets and/or airline ticket validators are the objects of attack. Metro Forgery’s geographic areas of responsibility are Central and South Bureaus as well as Hollywood and Wilshire Areas in West Bureau. Within Metropolitan Forgery the Real Estate Fraud Unit investigates real estate fraud cases on a citywide basis.