The Strategic Impact Unit (formerly known as the Narcotics Bureau and Vice Control Squad) is  led by Capt. William Collins.  It includes Narcotics, Morals, Liquor violations, Licensing for Transient Vendors and Street Hawkers, Missing Persons, and Sex Crimes, and the Traffic Bureau.

Nacotics
Take control halt Drug-using lifestyles that deteriorate and ruin lives, families, neighbor-hoods, and communities.  You can make a difference. Drugs are related to crime in multiple ways. Most directly, it is a crime to use, possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs classified as having a potential for abuse (such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and amphetamines) Drugs are also related to crime through the effects they have on the user’s behavior and by generating violence and other illegal activity in connection with drug trafficking. The chart below summarizes the various ways that drugs and crime are related.

Drug-related offenses and drug-using lifestyles are major contributors to the U.S. crime problem, illicit drug users are about 16 times more likely than nonusers to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft." (Information from Office of National Drug Control Policy)
General Number 787-6393

The SIU challenges the community to use every resource; the telephone, e-mail, text-a-tip, and Community Police contacts for information and tips to help illuminate drug trafficking and use in Springfield.

Morals

Liquor violations

Licensing for Transient Vendors and Street Hawkers

Narcotics Tip Line:         734-2222
Gang Hotline:                 787-7027                          
Captain C. Lee Bennett  787-6351
e-mail                             narcotics@springfieldpolice.net