The Washington State Patrol’s Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) has been making a difference for Washington’s citizens every day since 1997. CCU investigates cases that include crimes involving Narcotics, Homicide, Identity Theft, Terrorism, Child Pornography, and On-Line Exploitation of Children. The exponential growth of technology in all aspects of our daily lives continues to transfer over to the criminal element, which is now using non-traditional high technology.

For example, criminals are now using cellular telephones, personal data assistants (PDAs), credit card readers, I-Pods, blackberries, and other non-traditional storage media devices to facilitate their criminal behavior.

CCU detectives have received specialized training and equipment to conduct forensic examinations on these types of non-traditional high technology storage media devices.

These investigations are on the cutting edge of high technology criminal investigation. This service is provided to all law enforcement agencies in Washington state.